Sentence examples for significant embarrassment from inspiring English sources

Republicans moved quickly to respond to what was becoming a significant embarrassment.

In interviews on Friday, intelligence officials described the episode as a significant embarrassment.

A petition accepted that must later be dismissed as "improvidently granted" is a significant embarrassment to the clerk in question.

But the failure of the referendum was a significant embarrassment to the prime minister, who faces a general election in May.

If the European court rules in his favor and calls for a new trial, it would be a significant embarrassment for the Kremlin.

Today's verdict is a significant embarrassment for BBC1's former controller Jay Hunt, whose evidence was a central plank of the corporation's defence against O'Reilly's allegations.

More recently, Mr. Ahern suffered significant embarrassments, proposing two referendums that failed -- one to tighten Ireland's ban on abortion, already the most restrictive in Europe, and the other to approve the European Union's Treaty of Nice, which would have admitted applicant countries from Central and Eastern Europe.

But the humiliation for American golf, and the reevaluations it may force on this event and its format, were far more significant than the embarrassment of '04.

The use of American-made tear gas, with the name and address of the manufacturer printed in bold on the canisters, was a source of significant consternation and embarrassment for U.S. officials in the months after the 2011 revolution in Egypt, when police frequently deployed tear gas during clashes with protesters in and around Cairo's Tahrir Square.

Vascular malformations commonly occur in the facial region, and can be associated with significant stigma and embarrassment.

But beginning in 1998, the party began to suffer significant losses and embarrassments.