Sentence examples for source of major embarrassment from inspiring English sources

The criminal case against the intelligence officers, which was the source of major embarrassment for the US and Italy and strained diplomatic relations between the two countries, was the first and only prosecution and conviction involving Americans connected to the CIA's highly controversial rendition, detention, and interrogation program. .

The money trail links back to the so-called "Magnitsky case", a $230 million tax fraud that has become a major source of international embarrassment for the Kremlin because of mounting evidence that prominent officials within the Interior Ministry, tax offices and the judiciary aided the scam.

The trading losses have been a major source of embarrassment for the company and its chief executive, Jamie Dimon.

And so it was a major source of embarrassment, got lots of coverage in the Times and the local papers," Sawyer told me.

The appearances have become a major source of embarrassment since the Libyan leader's brutal response to a popular uprising against him in Libya.

Mr. Levy is surely aware that a series of publicized gaffes in last year's summer school plan were a major source of embarrassment for Chancellor Rudy Crew that preceded his downfall.

Ms. Banerjee's gaffes and conspiracy theories in recent past have been a major source of embarrassment to the party and government officials alike, say party insiders and bureaucrats.

The backlog has become a major source of embarrassment for the department, causing bipartisan ire in Congress and bitter frustration among thousands of veterans who complain of long waits, unfair decisions and delayed payments.

Within less than a year, however, the investigations into espionage and aiding the enemy grew into a major source of embarrassment for the Pentagon, as the prosecutions of Captain Yee and another Muslim serviceman at the base, Airman Ahmad I. Al Halabi, unraveled dramatically.

Thanks to tireless campaigning by Bill Browder, the British based CEO of Hermitage Capital, the case has become a major source of embarrassment for Russia and a lightning rod for anger over the precarious nature of international investments in a country where official corruption has become endemic.

When the museum in Bilbao opened, in 1997, and Gehry became a household word, the largely unbuilt concert hall (it hadn't got past the foundation and the underground garage) became a major source of embarrassment: Gehry, who is now seventy-four, had lived in Los Angeles since the nineteen-forties, and the city still couldn't get a big Gehry project going.