Sentence examples for cause of embarrassment from inspiring English sources

And in Mr Rumsfeld's case this war has removed an immediate cause of embarrassment.

At most FTSE 100 companies, a 21% vote against the remuneration report would be a cause of embarrassment.

I did not think too much about this as a child, but by the time I was a teen-ager, in a new school, it was often a cause of embarrassment.

Vatican Bank All too often the cause of embarrassment for the papacy, the Institute for Works of Religion IORR) is at the heart of Francis's reform – and ethical finance – agenda.

Local communities also considered CMWs same as untrained TBAs, which was a cause of embarrassment for most CMWs.

Ms Tang complained that police were slow to respond to the case and that the kidnappers were then sentenced too leniently.Ms Tang's crime of "disturbing public order" with her protests is one often used by local officials seeking to remove potential causes of embarrassment.

The team of investigative journalists behind the Mossack Fonseca exposure will surely use the anti-corruption summit to reveal further damning material, no doubt designed to cause plenty of embarrassment, perhaps even to some of those attending the London conference.

But terrorism has never been a major cause of Home Office embarrassment.

Disguised earnings have been the cause of much embarrassment for high-profile celebrities in recent years, including the comedian Jimmy Carr.

Another says that her household reverberates to the sound of doors being slammed and regular reminders that everything she says and does is a cause of crippling embarrassment.

As the value that society places on intellectual property has increased, that line has become murkier and the cause of some embarrassment, too.