Sentence examples for lead to embarrassment from inspiring English sources

WHY does the knuckleball often lead to embarrassment — for hitter and pitcher alike?

Don't trust mushy altruistic impulses on Christmas Eve, is Trollope's lesson; they lead to embarrassment more often than epiphany.

The lack of anonymity may act as a disincentive for victims, they say, as media coverage in court cases can lead to embarrassment or humiliation.

Despite all the precautions, the cases of Tripsas, Robinson and Albo show how differing views of ethics, a failure to read or remember the fine print and a failure to communicate can lead to embarrassment all around.

When you write about the technology industry, rereading stories from a decade earlier is more than likely to lead to embarrassment, but for the iPhone's ten-year anniversary I made an exception and dug into the archives of Gigaom, the tech blog that I founded, in 2001, to see what I first thought of that little slab of metal and glass without any buttons.

But he said that, on balance, that it was worth preserving: "Can it lead to embarrassment?

This year's Democratic campaign has led to embarrassment and disappointment for many unions.

Surely we're all aware by now of what's been going on among schoolchildren, behaviour that often leads to embarrassment and heartbreak.

The Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev's well-known love for technology led to embarrassment on Thursday as hackers reportedly accessed his Twitter account and unleashed a barrage of hoax tweets.

In Ireland, last November's game and the controversy that ensued led to embarrassment, when it was revealed that the FAI wanted to be invited to South Africa as the World Cup's 33th team, and contempt when Fifa suggested that they pick up an ambiguous moral compensation award at the Ballon d'Or awards ceremony.

But he is sympathetic of the difficulties and complexities that led to embarrassment for the Church of England when it discovered it had invested indirectly in online lender Wonga.