Indeed, an author talking to rows of empty chairs is an embarrassing commonplace event on the signing circuit these days.

And each time the university seemed poised to move forward, some embarrassing event always managed to pull it back.

I have stood behind them through all the embarrassing events and boneheaded management decisions of the past 15 years.

It is one of the most embarrassing events for the Black Watch, even to this day.

This obsession - and one can, I think, rightly call it that - involved me in probably the most embarrassing event of my professional life.

Whatever the reasons, the military officials used the embarrassing event as yet another opportunity to lobby for more funds for the shrinking defense forces.

There is another embarrassing event on the horizon, one the Knicks cannot avoid.

In an interview last month, Mr. Rowe said the summer power failures were among the most embarrassing events of his career.

After the embarrassing events in the previous war, English public opinion was unenthusiastic about starting a new one.

After a devastating and embarrassing event she decides to step up her game.