Sentence examples for growing embarrassment from inspiring English sources

The developments are a growing embarrassment for India, which hoped to use the competition as a showcase for the country.

The situation is a growing embarrassment for New York, lawyers and court officials said in interviews recently.

Mr Libby's conviction added to the administration's growing embarrassment about the war and about Mr Cheney, one of its chief promoters.

The fact that the plot escaped detection even though Tamerlan was already known to the FBI and the Russians is also a large and growing embarrassment.

But General Ntaganda and men like him are a growing embarrassment to the Congolese, the Rwandans, the UN, and the ICC.

And he would have concluded publicly that yellow rain seemed like it might be, well, bee faeces, thus adding to the growing embarrassment over the US charge.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono intervened decisively to overturn a decision by immigration authorities to bar the American terrorism expert Sidney Jones from entering the country, thus quickly ending what was a growing international embarrassment to his fledgling democratic government.

If he prevails over growing G.O.P. embarrassment at such a floating symbol of gated plutocracy, we urge Mr. DeLay to forgo any "Master and Commander" regalia he may have in mind.

"Well," I said, my embarrassment growing.

It is hard to read this book without a growing sense of embarrassment and indignation.

"I thought that a negligee would be a fun thing to have," I stammered, my face growing hot with embarrassment.