Sentence examples for embarrassment city from inspiring English sources

In 1854, much to Irving's embarrassment, city fathers changed the town's name to Irvington in his honor; in 1872, Sunnyside was absorbed by next-door Tarrytown.

By this time, 42nd Street's depravity had become an unendurable embarrassment to city fathers.

In a last-ditch effort to avoid an electoral embarrassment, the city is poised to go back in time: it is seeking to redeploy lever machines, a technology first developed in the 1890s, for use this September at polling places across the five boroughs.

Another embarrassment at City and defeat in Cardiff on Saturday could signal the end of the 59-year-old's tenure but barring that turn of events it remains likely, with recruitment plans in place, that he will be in charge through the key run of games next month.

The about-face is an embarrassment for city officials who pushed the deal.

The conditions this team is forced to play in are absolutely unacceptable and an embarrassment to the city of Philadelphia".

"This action is an unwarranted attack on one of America's strongest allies and an embarrassment to our city," he wrote.

The existence of these horse-and-buggies in Midtown Manhattan in 2010 should be an embarrassment to the city and an outrage to anyone opposed to animal cruelty.

"I apologize for my actions and lack of sound judgment and for causing great embarrassment to the city and the City Council," Mr. Barry told reporters last week.

City councillor Joe Mihevc said the latest tape appears to show Ford had not stopped drinking and continued to be an embarrassment to the city of Toronto.

After that embarrassment, an unrecognisable City side all but secured their passage to the quarter-finals of the Champions League with an imperious performance against Dynamo Kyiv.