Sentence examples for embarrassing issues from inspiring English sources

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.

There are "some really embarrassing issues", said entrepreneur Ivan Kirigin.

For one thing, personal cooks and pot washers could raise embarrassing issues of class, not to mention immigration.

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.

The report also saw the value of the Apple brand jump by 37% to more than $21bn£13.5bnbn) as embarrassing technical issues with the iPhone 4 were more than offset by the successful launch of the iPad.

Clearly embarrassed, Schofield issued a statement expressing his regret that the stunt had misfired.

The Treasury may be embarrassed to issue more bonds as long as these lawmakers – and the threat of defaulting on those same bonds – are still out there.

The embarrassing disclosure of continuing issues with HSBC's processes is contained in a 16-page motion filed to a US court this week by the DoJ, which is seeking to keep confidential a report on the bank that is more than 1,000 pages long.