Sentence examples for embarrassingly high from inspiring English sources

They would signal to other governments that embarrassingly high levels of abuse and risk are unacceptable.

Despite those embarrassingly high binge drinking statistics, alcohol consumption in my home country has actually decreased by nearly 20% over the last decade.

And does Ofsted really expect to get away with using the "kids today!" scoff as an actual, presentable-to-parliament reason for these embarrassingly high youth unemployment rates?

The context turns out to have been ideal for using one of the key techniques of successful negotiation: placing an almost embarrassingly high opening demand that, even if rejected, starts the bargaining at a higher level.

It says the police are happy to work with it, so long as it doesn't press them for hard statistics on the number of children kidnapped a sensitive issue for the police, because the figures are embarrassingly high.

Now James faces his greatest test: whether he can put an end to the phone-hacking scandal — without the company facing more troubling revelations, an embarrassingly high amount in damages or the collapse of the takeover of Sky.

Notwithstanding the challenges of the confounding role of nephropathy in the natural history of diabetes, dialysis patient mortality has remained at ∼20% per year, a death rate that is embarrassingly higher than many fatal cancers (2).

ON THE SCREEN -- The ad shows now-familiar images of Mr. Corzine in as unflattering a light as possible: a still photo with an odd grin on his face, followed by video of Mr. Corzine whooping as he gives a supporter an embarrassingly awkward high-five.

Embarrassingly, inflation is now higher than when Alan Greenspan, the soon-to-retire chairman of the Federal Reserve, took office in 1987.British inflation is equally embarrassing for the Bank of England.

The movie plunges us into the rough-and-tumble physical and emotional chaos of youth with all its embarrassingly uncontrollable emotions amped up high.

Having grown up in a college town with a group of drama-nerd high school friends embarrassingly devoted to a certain all-male a capella group, you can count me so, so, so in for the film's October release.