Sentence examples for embarrassing standoff from inspiring English sources
After an embarrassing standoff that at one point had Mr. Burris standing outside the Capitol in the rain, Democrats relented and said he could be seated, provided he could demonstrate to a state legislative committee considering impeaching Mr. Blagojevich that no bargains had been struck to win the seat.
And if his colleagues had followed his advice, this would have headed off the embarrassing standoff just before Christmas when Republicans blocked the extension in a fight over how to pay for it, and they would have settled for a two-month deal.
Michelle Moorman, 21, a college student at the nearby University of Kansas who showed up to protest the cuts with her roommates, said she was surprised and embarrassed by the standoff.
While the standoff over the frigate is embarrassing for Argentina, it is a sideshow to the litigation by Elliott and Aurelius in New York A few years ago, Elliott and Aurelius changed their legal tack.
It had been thirty years since the 1980's began with the death of disco and a frowning Ayatollah Khomeni returning to Tehran and embarrassing President Jimmy Carter with his arduous hostage standoff.
Nevertheless: embarrassing.
