Sentence examples for may be embarrassment from inspiring English sources

It offers the normal public relations gobbledygook nonanswer, but the real reason may be embarrassment that a client's account was concentrated in two very risky stocks, an imprudent strategy in any market.

He may be an embarrassment, but he is one that the administration has no choice but to cultivate.

Russia's membership of the G8 may be an embarrassment, since it is supposedly a club of democracies.

Finishing last may be an embarrassment at other sporting events, but at the Tour it is an unofficial honor.

The context may be an embarrassment now, but the ingenuity of Elgar's score retained its vivid impact.

But it may be saved embarrassment: Venezuelan papers say Colombia has already indicated its readiness to see its errant son sent north rather than west, which would earn both South American governments brownie points in Washington, instead of neither.

The rapidity with which the STAP papers unravelled despite the rigour that Nature claims for its review procedures may be an embarrassment for the journal but also shows the value of access for improving the scrutiny of science.

The chief reason for the Tories staying in is the perks they would lose if they went off on their own.If one is being charitable, another reason may be the embarrassment some of them might feel by sitting alongside the nutters and deadbeats of the parliament's right-wing fringe.

The passage may be an embarrassment to classicists, but it surely belongs in the same tradition as later medieval endorsements of illumination.

The result may be less embarrassment about seeing women breastfeed in public and a subsequent support of women's choice to breastfeed [ 18].

With time, he added, "what may have been embarrassment or a quandary had turned into a source of pride with some of them".