Sentence examples for embarrassing process from inspiring English sources

In recent years, the N.H.L. and Major League Baseball have been embroiled in the complex, expensive and often embarrassing process of owning or financing teams.

Fearing a long, politically costly and embarrassing process, the government is trying to block any inquiry by urging it be extended to all candidates.

One of the main inspirations for concluding the deal this early was NBC's conviction that it could not go through the painful and at times embarrassing process that attended the last decision to turn over the host job on "Tonight".

A broadcast merger that has been the poster boy for the FCC's pro-industry agenda has been ordered to undertake a lengthy and potentially embarrassing process that amounts to, in the words of one commissioner, a "de facto merger death sentence".

It should be able to levy stiff fines and launch its own investigations.In exchange for participating in this embarrassing, unpleasant process, publishers would gain increased legal protection.

"Correcting this will be an embarrassing and costly process," Andrew S. Eristoff, the city revenue commissioner, wrote to Pat Vacchiarelli, the Church Street postmaster, on July 14.

It has been a long, embarrassing and complex process, with deadlines set and missed since the theater closed for renovation in 2005 and with soaring costs, financed by the federal government, that have reached $760 million, according to the latest estimate by the Ministry of Culture.

"I was determined to sell this thing but it was kind of embarrassing, the actual process of selling the show, because it's fair to say no-one expected 'from the producers of Little Dorrit, here comes Top Gear US.'" The return of Doctor Who, in 2005, is Tranter's most lasting legacy in her time in charge of BBC drama.

The auction winner will coordinate with Metzler to choose a name and get it approved by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, which records species names and makes sure they're not too embarrassing in the process.

Julian Schwinger and Richard Feynman in the United States and Tomonaga Shin'ichirō in Japan proved that they could rid the theory of its embarrassing infinities by a process known as renormalization.

Last winter's "Butmir process", an embarrassing failure, saw Bosnian leaders brawling and swapping lewd jokes and insults like schoolboys, while Carl Bildt (the Swedish foreign minister) and Jim Steinberg (the US deputy secretary of state) failed to establish order in class.