Sentence examples for embarrassing issue from inspiring English sources

It is a confusing, complex and embarrassing issue for United, even if it is true it was not a farce of their own making.

There is also the thorny, potentially highly embarrassing issue of whether this agent provided the intelligence that led to the assassination by American 'drone' of the AQAP leader, Fahd al-Quso.

This year, at high schools in Stratford and Fairfield, a controversial picture appeared in each school's yearbook, once again leaving officials searching for ways to resolve an embarrassing issue.

Can I raise an embarrassing issue?

The embarrassing issue has left the company's flagship device unusable.

Friends messaged her to tell her about the embarrassing issue.

Abbott could shake just about any union tree and embarrassing issues would fall out.

During a fractious appearance in front of the Home Affairs Select Committee, Britain's most senior police officer professed ignorance across a wide range of embarrassing issues for the Met – including which of his current top team wrongly gave Scotland Yard a clean bill of health regarding corruption in the Stephen Lawrence murder inquiry two years ago.

and Democratic rival Elizabeth Warren are continuing to trade attacks over embarrassing issues dogging each campaign.

This may often include informal interpreters such as family members [ 11] although this can be problematic when faced with embarrassing issues or when the informal interpreter's language skills are poor.

Social media is an area where Google has admitted it was caught cold; its own social media application, Google Buzz, suffered embarrassing privacy issues on launch, while its instant messaging service Google Wave failed to make many, well, waves.