Sentence examples for embarrassing background from inspiring English sources

The announcement came against an embarrassing background of leaked government memos.See article: Labour's new prudenceWorkers about to be laid off at a chemical plant in northern France dumped 3,000 litres of sulphuric acid into a stream that runs into the river Meuse.

Am I going to be embarrassed?' The background that I came from, doing a reality show would be frowned upon".

Australian cricket continues to be embarrassed by background noise, with the former coach Mickey Arthur launching a surgical strike against his former employers while the elder brother of the disgraced opener David Warner has done nothing to promote team harmony by ranting on Twitter against Shane Watson.

Don't become an embarrassed internet celebrity by taking and sharing photos of yourself with embarrassing things in the background.

At that gathering, Richard Berman, the founder and chief executive of the Washington-based consulting firm Berman & Company, advised oil and gas officials to launch an "endless war" against environmentalists that included researching their personal backgrounds and looking for embarrassing information.

So for instance you could change the background in an online business call in Skype or other video messenger — given the pile of unwashed clothes in the background might be a tad embarrassing.

Perhaps my Boston background was to blame for my embarrassing wrinkle ignorance.

The report is embarrassing not only for Wen himself – who comes from a modest background and is widely seen as the sympathetic, populist face of the government – but for the party.

A few weeks later, a package arrives and the walls of parents' houses are adorned with utterly embarrassing, almost always awful, overexposed graduation pictures with the same mottled grey background as was used for 'official' nursery pictures nearly two decades ago.

That they are now working to hold the seat open for a man who thinks some judges can't do their jobs because of their ethnic background or religion is unconscionable and should be, quite frankly, embarrassing to all Republicans.

The report is particular embarrassing for Wen because he has made a point of stressing his modest background.