Sentence examples for most recent embarrassment from inspiring English sources

The racing industry's most recent embarrassment involved the disclosure this month that more than 30 horses in four states had tested positive for a powerful performance-enhancing substance drawn from the backs of a type of South American frog.

The most recent embarrassment was the release last week of over 800 pages of documents in connection with a lawsuit that added greatly to the woes of the Archdiocese of Boston and its embattled leader, Cardinal Bernard F. Law.

U.S. JOURNAL about the recent string of calamities besetting Decatur, Illinois... Describes the most recent embarrassment of apparently-faulty (and fatal) Firestone tires that came in part from a Decatur plant... Writer interviews Kevin Breheny, the chairman of the board of the Chamber of Commerce.

By Mark Singer The New Yorker, October 30, 2000 P. 58 U.S. JOURNAL about the recent string of calamities besetting Decatur, Illinois... Describes the most recent embarrassment of apparently-faulty (and fatal) Firestone tires that came in part from a Decatur plant... Writer interviews Kevin Breheny, the chairman of the board of the Chamber of Commerce..

But Romney's most recent embarrassment, when Ed Gillespie said that Romney "retired retroactively" from Bain Capital in 1999, although he appears to have been legally in charge of the company through 2002, gave Colbert much more material to work with.

The most recent embarrassment out of Texas comes from testimony given by Barbara Cargill, the chair of the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE), before the Texas Senate Education Committee and the Senate Nominations Committee.

His is but the most recent in an embarrassment of splashy political scandals: Senator Vitter of Louisiana, exposed in 2009 as the client of high-priced prostitutes; Representative Weiner of New York, who confessed in 2011 to sending explicit photographs to women; Senator Ensign of Nevada, who resigned last year after admitting to an illicit affair with a staff member.

This journey from shady internet chemist to public ridicule via agony, A&E, and the planet's giggling media is one that seems to be made fairly often, though admittedly the details of the most recent case of planet-wide Viagra-embarrassment are extreme.

Having weathered his most recent crisis, however, he does not want to suffer more embarrassment, or generate future losses for his heirs.

Chant enthusiastically describes his visit to a kindergarten in Pyongyang on his most recent trip in 2013 where he saw "tiny tots stand up and sing in public without embarrassment or trepidation".

The most recent instance of this problem was Moore's characterization of Bush as a "deserter," which caused considerable embarrassment for the Presidential candidate he had endorsed, Wesley Clark.