Sentence examples for in the embarrassing from inspiring English sources

The headline oversold it — the story, inevitably, suggested that China is unlikely to support U.N. sanctions — but it notably mentioned that Russia's drift toward the U.S. position has left China all alone, "in the embarrassing situation of having to choose sides in the confrontation between Iran and the West".

The head of the Unite trade union, Len McCluskey, has been cast as the Arthur Scargill of our day, Ed Miliband as the weak leader who takes Unite's money but cannot stop it causing mayhem, and the Daily Mail has added in the "embarrassing" fact that the union official who is handling the tanker drivers' grievances is Diana Holland, the treasurer of the Labour Party.

So it proved yesterday for the FA in the embarrassing case of Stuart Pearce.

We're in the embarrassing position where more than five councils want it".

In the embarrassing Piers Morgan interview, he freely admitted: "I accept I have to do better in the presentation area.

Besides investigating Mr. Madoff, regulators are now in the embarrassing position of examining whether they should have caught him sooner.

It was spare, nervy music created in reaction to the embarrassing excesses of arena rock.

Take, too, the re-emergence of folk music, in the 1990s the embarrassing, socks-and-sandals uncle of British pop.

The embarrassing questions - in the case of Janácek and Kamila, did they or didn't they have a sexual relationship?

In the past year, rock critics found themselves in the faintly embarrassing position of having to hail Justin Timberlake's "Justified" as one of the better records of the year.

Auernheimer handed over 100,000 iPad email addresses to the website Gawker -- in the process embarrassing AT&T.