Sentence examples for greater embarrassment from inspiring English sources

Misdirection is an underrated weapon in parliament: the best way of dealing with an embarrassing situation is to create an even greater embarrassment.

Dr. Khan has since renounced that confession in Pakistani and Western media, saying he made it only to save Pakistan greater embarrassment.

For her, there was no greater embarrassment than running into someone from school with her lame parents and her stupid little brother.

Despite the injuries, six players who started in Manchester, a defeat that followed arguably greater embarrassment at Nottingham Forest, were also named in Allardyce's starting XI on the opening day of the season.

Essex gave a debut to new overseas signing, Bryce McGain, the Australian leg-spinner and 38-year-old one-cap wonder, who effectively avoided greater embarrassment by taking the next four wickets to fall.

The current investigation could prove a still greater embarrassment for Kim Dae Jung as prosecutors close in on his second son, Kim Hong Up, who had been the second-ranking official of the president's Asia-Pacific Peace Foundation, which has suspended operations.

That I never managed to read it is one of the greater embarrassments of my childhood.

The revelation caused great embarrassment for the Eisenhower administration.

To Reynolds's great embarrassment, Yeltsin never left the plane.

Anti-liberal thought has now encompassed the collapse of communism, hitherto its greatest embarrassment.

Known as climategate, that was a great embarrassment for the scientists involved.