Sentence examples for embarrassing figure from inspiring English sources

It would be tragic for many reasons if the most loved black celebrity of them all now ends up being an embarrassing figure of hate.

That is an embarrassing figure for Chancellor Helmut Kohl to set before the voters in the country's general election due in September.

She learned her lesson the hard way about a decade ago, when an article in Harper's Bazaar, where she was interning, tallied up her personal expenses — $136,000 annually — and published the embarrassing figure in an article about the cost of being a young socialite.

That is a shockingly embarrassing figure to a nation that calls itself the breadbasket to the world, and a situation that should be unacceptable.

Fulvia's sons with Mark Antony, Marcus Antonius Antyllus and Jullus Antonius, were important (and embarrassing) figures during the reign of Augustus.

But surely there are other reasons a candidate who has not finished even a single Senate term, who speaks in glowing generalities and who has been tied to an assortment of embarrassing figures might lose badly at least some of the time, especially in states where a key demographic group whose support he essentially monopolizes is thin on the ground.

Then it announced the decision, on a day when embarrassing immigration figures were coming out.

In a move designed to distract from embarrassing new figures that reveal net migration levels have reached near-record levels despite a pledge to cut them to the "tens of thousands" in 2010, Mr Cameron announced a range of measures attempting to crack down on immigration numbers.

She now calls that figure "embarrassing" considering how much she made from the company.

English football's governing body is embarrassed by figures showing that only nine out of 3,000 professional footballers in the top four divisions are of south Asian – countries such as Pakistan, India and Bangladesh – origin.

Although offshore companies are not in themselves illegal, the sudden publication of the information drew attention to possible tax avoidance and money laundering crimes in some cases, and embarrassed some figures trying to keep their finances secret.