Sentence examples for new embarrassments from inspiring English sources
A bargain-basement price tag for developing the state canal system, scandals at the racetracks, oversize salaries at the power authority -- new embarrassments appear almost weekly.
In the wake of the Salt Lake City bribery scandal and diminished credibility over its resolve to reduce the use of performance-enhancing drugs, the International Olympic Committee has faced a barrage of new embarrassments this week that raises questions about its ability to change significantly.
Amidst new embarrassments and dilemmas, Naylor pauses to reflect on some truths of adulthood: that "simple" weddings are seldom simple, that routines can be joyful, that our lives progress alongside the shadow of other possibilities — the men we didn't marry, the jobs we didn't get, the friends we stopped calling.
Confronted only by a Democratic congress that is too terrorized and internally riven to pose any obstacle and a tame press, the White House now appears hell bent on a course that can only add new embarrassments during the fourteen months that George Bush and Dick Cheney will continue to be in power.
NEW YORK TIMES New Embarrassment for British Regulator | The Serious Fraud Office admitted on Thursday that it had lost thousands of documents linked to an investigation into the British aerospace giant BAE Systems.
Each day brings new embarrassment.
When the committee refused, he walked out the door and into a new embarrassment.
Mr. Gonzales's mishandling of the classified documents adds a new embarrassment to the long list of problems that tainted his tenure as attorney general.
Governor Pataki, who has the most control over these authorities, has the most to lose each time some new embarrassment creeps into the light.
Some legal experts said the Florida court had obviously structured its opinion to try to forestall a new embarrassment from Washington.
But it sure looks that way, and his defiance of the presidential order for openness adds a new embarrassment to the list.
