Sentence examples for embarrassments like this from inspiring English sources

Both Mr. Sussman and Mr. Smith said the three-hour format will help avoid embarrassments like this.

But few would have expected quite an embarrassment like this.

Perhaps more importantly, Logan offered no indication that CBS News is undertaking any kind of review to figure out what went so wrong at 60 Minutes, how an entire report was built around a charlatan "eyewitness," and how the show's bosses can prevent a colossal embarrassment like this from transpiring again.

The article is a nod to high-profile embarrassments like the one that a teenager caused by carving his mark—"Ding Jinhao was here"—into an ancient wall in the Egyptian ruins at Luxor earlier this year.

Some donations are considered eyesores, some minor embarrassments — like the priapic sculpture of a bull elephant near the north fence, his majestic anatomy safely hidden by a thick hedge the height of his stomach.

In some interviews, he has alluded to threats to the credibility of religious leaders in the unseemly day-to-day of political life, ranging from the appearance of compromises in the interest of power to more vivid embarrassments like the recent case of a Salafi lawmaker who was caught fabricating a beating by unknown assailants to cover up a nose job.

They say they are mindful of embarrassments like the deadly bombing at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, when F.B.I. agents focused on Richard Jewell, a security guard, as their suspect but were later forced to acknowledge that they were after the wrong man.

This should prevent another embarrassment like the one last year, in which Iran's women's team had to forfeit an Olympic qualifying match.

"It's no wonder the faithful continue to forsake the movies, given junky embarrassments like "Nights in Rodanthe,' " Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times in September.

Its decline now has more to do with things like the crisis in the Catholic church and worries about progress in the war on terrorism, than passing political embarrassments, like Mr Bush's speech.

And after a string of construction embarrassments like Wembley Stadium and the Millennium Dome, both of which were marred by trouble and wildly over budget, the project will help transform Britain's reputation abroad, he said.