Sentence examples for badly embarrassed from inspiring English sources

Familiarising yourself with these will help you to prosecute your attack successfully, and might also help you avoid the kind of blunder that must have badly embarrassed Simon Widmer.

Despite sending Prime Minister David Cameron, Prince William and David Beckham to Zurich in an attempt to wow the Fifa delegates, England was left badly embarrassed as it managed to secure just two votes out of 22. Fifa has since admitted that holding two campaigns, for 2018 and 2022, was an error as claims of voting collusion dogged the closing months of the race.

The wariness in part reflects the fact that the administration has been badly embarrassed by previous diplomatic efforts.

Mr Brown was badly embarrassed in November, when CDs containing 25m child-benefit records were reported lost by the Inland Revenue.

(In 2010, it was badly embarrassed when it was found to be discarding and destroying unsold clothing at its Herald Square store, which it has promised not to do again).

He has been badly embarrassed before -- attempts to buy Telecom Italia and Qwest Communications International collapsed -- so he is expected to be particularly careful in future deal-making, the executives said, especially with such intense media attention.

But she believes that Mr. Sharmaidze was jailed only because "they badly needed to find someone" to take the blame for a killing that severely embarrassed Georgia's leader at the time, Eduard A. Shevardnadze, the former Soviet foreign minister, and raised concerns in Washington about his grip on the country.

Liverpool's rich European history was no shield against the chill blast of Champions League reality as holders Real Madrid rode into Anfield and left them badly beaten and embarrassed.

If it is going badly, and you feel embarrassed, just get off at the next stop!

Because we get to avoid all of the potential hazards...that we'll do something badly, that we'll be embarrassed, that we'll fail.

This interview with Dennis Crowley, co-founder and chief executive of Foursquare, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. A. I learned early on not to feel badly about reaching out for help, and not to feel embarrassed about saying that you're in over your head.