Sentence examples for is somewhat embarrassing from inspiring English sources

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So it is somewhat embarrassing that as the European Union's Commissioner for Trade, he has presided over the imposition of punitive duties on a wave of Asian imports.

In fact, the report is somewhat embarrassing for the party, which criticized the opposition Democratic Party for suggesting during parliamentary elections last month that taxes must rise.

Well, ok, that one still makes me feel nostalgic and snug -- at least until I come to the line "God our maker doth provide, for our needs to be supplied," at which point I start thinking about a mom I met in Guatemala and a club-footed child beggar in Delhi -- and my old belief that God had provided me rather than them with a stuffed turkey is somewhat embarrassing.

However, it is somewhat embarrassing to say that we are uncomfortable, and have grey zones and areas where we feel powerless.

(Perhaps we will get better at finding it on a map!") It is somewhat embarrassing, if not surprising that it took an alleged chemical weapons attack to draw sustained media attention to a crisis that already killed about 100,000 people and included the targeted killing and torture of children.

That pales in comparison to Windows 7's roughly 60percentt share, and is somewhat embarrassing when you consider that Windows XP still retains 12percentt itself.

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And today, when the governor's office released a pile of e-mails, it turned out to be somewhat embarrassing.

Sloan-Kettering has maintained that it is a private matter affecting Dr. Thompson, though the accusations have clearly been somewhat embarrassing for the prestigious Manhattan cancer center.

It's somewhat embarrassing that we didn't look outward sooner, that foreign wars got less TV air time than the war against wrinkles.

It's somewhat embarrassing to admit, therefore, that I'm finding it hard to do better than the profoundly unhelpful "I don't know – just not him".

He said: "This is welcome for Hammond as it would have been somewhat embarrassing if the first set of public finance figures after the November autumn statement had immediately put question marks over his new fiscal targets," he said.

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