Sentences with phrase «prospect of an embarrassing»

Not for the first time there was little resistance to the prospect of an embarrassing loss.

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The decision by Justice Jennifer Schecter of the New York state court in Manhattan in favor of California restaurateur Summer Zervos, a former contestant on NBC's «The Apprentice,» raises the prospect that Trump might have to answer embarrassing questions in court about his behavior toward women.

MARBELLA, Spain — As he breaks away from a gaggle of Borussia Dortmund players flooding out of a post-dinner team meeting, Christian Pulisic looks almost a little embarrassed by the prospect of being put under the spotlight.

The prospect of conversing with Ceaușescu so embarrassed the Queen, in fact, that she jumped into a bush in the Palace gardens in order to avoid the Romanian tyrant.

Durbin, his potential opponent, faces the embarrassing prospect of watching Obama's Senate seat fall into Republican hands.

Apparently embarrassed by his vote, Kerry later explained that «the prospect of human - induced global warming as an accepted thesis with adverse consequences for all is here, and it is real.»

However, as papy02 says above (and I think I said elsewhere), the prospect of the board selling shares @ 32p & then buying them back (possibly, shortly thereafter) at far higher prices seems a mite embarrassing... It certainly seems to suggest at least one of those decisions might be less than smart — and I certainly don't think it would be the decision to buy back shares at an attractive discount..!

Frivolous action: Groundless lawsuit with little prospect of success, often brought to embarrass or annoy the defendant.