Sentence examples for embarrassing bid from inspiring English sources

How could it reach the point that Manager Joe Girardi felt compelled to start benching this guy and that guy in a desperate and almost embarrassing bid to get something going?

She blames Rove not only for her rather unceremonious departure from Fox News, but for her embarrassing bid for the presidency in 2012.

An embarrassing bidding scandal, sluggish ticket sales and the specter of terrorism fed a sense of foreboding about the Games.

But since Roxie and Richard's last name is Bacon, it would be embarrassing for them to bid on a pig at the local auction.

Besides embarrassing Venky's, the failed bid appeared to contradict an aim of rejuvenating the team.Owners of clubs that slip into the so-called "relegation zone" (comprising the bottom three clubs in the Premiership table) inevitably risk a backlash from fans, unless they have distanced themselves from day-to-day affairs.

But the move was widely seen as a bid to stave off embarrassing defections once the council ruled to allow mayoral office employees to move to other jobs.

However, Triesman claimed he was advised not to by his own legal team and also hit back at the report's findings, although he said the criticism of the FA bid was both "legitimate" and "embarrassing".

Kate Winslet's husband, Ned Rocknroll, has won his high court bid to prevent the Sun from publishing "embarrassing" pictures of him partly naked at a fancy dress party.

Police in Uganda have raided two newspapers and two radio stations in a bid to discover the source of a story embarrassing to the government of President Yoweri Museveni.

Citing unnamed United States officials, the newspaper said the Justice Department had been reluctant to prosecute Ms. Abankwah "for fear of embarrassing politicians and top administration officials" who had publicly embraced her bid for asylum.

Even though bondage movies have had a troubled history — the embarrassing "9 ½ Weeks" and "Exit to Eden" — Hollywood had a bidding war over the movie rights, which were sold to Universal and Focus Features for $5 million.