In the past year, rock critics found themselves in the faintly embarrassing position of having to hail Justin Timberlake's "Justified" as one of the better records of the year.
So the 65-year-old Mr. Hawke, who, many say, has wanted all his life to be the Comptroller, was put into the awkward -- and embarrassing -- position of being in a bureaucratic no-man's land.
Something like, when people find him he's in a really embarrassing position, naked.
Under a worse-case scenario, the United States would attend the conference, only to be caught in the diplomatically embarrassing position of watching other nations level criticism at Israel or America.
This placed Microsoft's partners in an embarrassing position.
The court would refer to this article and would be put in an embarrassing position.
The recommendation from the board puts the federal government in a distinctly controversial and embarrassing position.
While it puts me in a very awkward and embarrassing position, I don't blame them.
That pleased Mawae, who does not see his coach in an embarrassing position very often.
Now we are in the embarrassing position of returning to baseball on our hands and knees.
We're in the embarrassing position where more than five councils want it".
