The United States withdrew from its commitments in Vietnam, for example, but it became an embarrassment.
But more than an embarrassment, the misstep highlights Apple's challenge as it takes on Google and others with Web services.
The glitch affected fewer than 100 accounts and was quickly corrected, but it was an embarrassment for a company that touts its encryption.
Their chiefs occasionally make belligerent noises, but Indonesia finds them an embarrassment now.
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But that drug was an embarrassment to both the FDA and obesity doctors, both of which are likely to be more cautious with a drug that is basically the son of Redux.
He may be an embarrassment, but he is one that the administration has no choice but to cultivate.
Playing host to a gathering of this type is a feather in the cap of Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan's dictator since its birth in 1991, but it is turning into an embarrassment for the bank.
This was an American embarrassment, but similar insularity is on display in most nations at times when domestic comfort (false or otherwise) is threatened.
The worry among businessmen has not just been that Mr Estrada might be an international embarrassment, but also that he might reverse the market-friendly, liberalising reforms introduced by Mr Ramos.
But he is proving to be an embarrassment.
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Sapolsky may be one of America's most celebrated neuroscientists, but adventure wise, the man is an embarrassment.
The removal of Mr. Gilani would be an embarrassment for the government but wouldn't lead to a change in administration, he said.
But the old page had become enough of an embarrassment to require intervention.
HSBC's conservative approach to investment banking has stood it in good stead when the financial world has gone to pot, but when times were good, it was an embarrassment.
But industry analysts say the recent problems pose more of an embarrassment to Boeing rather than a serious concern about safety.
But in my gourmet demimonde, ordering steak well done is an embarrassment.
But the jump in violent offences reported to the police will be an embarrassment for Labour in the run-up to an expected spring election.
But having served that purpose, Mr Lukashenka, they argue, has become an embarrassment.
But while Wales do not have strength in depth at the back, England do boast an embarrassment of defensive riches.
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