Sentence examples for serious embarrassment from inspiring English sources
A lapse of all the sanctions would have been a serious embarrassment for the bloc.
"Gibraltar is, or should be, a serious embarrassment to any British government.
This has proved a serious embarrassment to the federal government on the international scene.
By the time Tryon made the turn, he was in danger of serious embarrassment.
After all, any tribunal would surely have caused him serious embarrassment.
His son's involvement with Cotecna, a Swiss firm hired to monitor the oil-for-food imports, is a serious embarrassment.
The Bertelsmann image transcended other serious embarrassments, such as when Stern magazine, acquired as part of the Gruner+Jahr takeover, was persuaded in a hoax to buy "Hitler's Diaries".
It causes severe embarrassment.
The consequent debates about whether the theory of evolution was more than a tautology should have generated serious philosophical embarrassment.
Though the infiltrators were eventually expelled, that they had ensconced themselves at all in such a sensitive territory was cause for serious political embarrassment.
Judge Baker said while Jones may not have known who, eventually, the CCTV would be passed to or for what purpose, it had caused Liverpool's Gerrard, and his friend Lee McPartland, "serious personal embarrassment", and damaged the reputation of Merseyside Police.
