Sentence examples for embarrassing string from inspiring English sources

Russia, for its part, has suffered an embarrassing string of failed satellite launchings.

He earned an All-Star berth one season, then was forced to deal with an embarrassing string of losses and a career-threatening injury.

The embarrassing string of cabinet changes may have been an important factor in Mr. Chrétien's decision to step down in February 2004 rather than seek a fourth term.

What is perhaps most troubling to Indonesians is that Mr. Wahid himself is now embroiled in an embarrassing string of scandals that have damaged his credibility and hurt efforts to establish a rule of law in this young democracy.

Laws establishing prisoners' rights to DNA appeals have been passed in California, New York and Illinois, a state that declared a moratorium on capital punishment after an embarrassing string of investigations uncovered condemned inmates who could be proved innocent.

That quandary along with an embarrassing string of mishaps — including a 29-hour power failure affecting another, less vital cooling system — have underscored an alarming reality: two years after the meltdowns, the plant remains vulnerable to the same sort of large earthquake and tsunami that set the original calamity in motion.

Embarrassing though a string of salacious revelations has been, this is no replay of the enormous meltdowns in America at Enron or WorldCom.

The Fountain scandal is the latest in a string of embarrassing controversies to hit Coronation Street.

It was at least the fifth in a string of embarrassing escapes from city authorities this year.

President Bill Clinton's campaigns provided fertile ground for a string of embarrassing memorandums.

Sadly, a string of embarrassing indiscretions involving citizens' personal data have reminded Britons that, in the real world, governments are flawed.