Sentence examples for seeking to embarrass from inspiring English sources

As with the test-ban treaty, the Republicans are seeking to embarrass the president, rather than to agree upon a fiscal policy.

Or was it a stratagem by dissidents in China seeking to embarrass the new moderate leadership in Peking, as some Japanese speculated?

George H. W. Bush once spent 29 minutes talking on the phone with Hashemi Rafsanjani, then the Iranian president, only to find out that it was a prank call from an Iranian seeking to embarrass Mr. Rafsanjani.

Some executives at the firms said they feared that Mr. Schneiderman, a first-term Democrat with ties to the Obama administration, was seeking to embarrass the industry because of Mr. Romney's roots at Bain.

A union supporter who insisted on anonymity and acknowledged seeking to embarrass the company over its antiunion campaign made a copy of the Web site material available to The New York Times.

He has claimed that he was seen with prostitutes and tested positive for cocaine use at a hospital visit in 1998 because he had been kidnapped by intelligence agents seeking to embarrass him.

It seems unlikely Agalarov would have sought to embarrass Trump.

Podesta has sought to embarrass and harass Mr. Podesta in an effort to gain financial leverage," the filing states.

Brevoort waiters make us uneasy with their few words of French with which they seek to embarrass us.

Egged on by Congressional Republicans, he has sought to embarrass Mr. Obama — astonishing behavior for so close an ally that does not serve his own country's interest.

Mr. Ginzburg was an advocate of nonviolent change who sought to embarrass the Soviet authorities by pressing them to respect their own laws.