"serious" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Instead of being forgotten, this leak could turn out to be a serious embarrassment to President Bush.
- The ruling was seen within the department as a serious embarrassment with wide-ranging political implications.
- These vote totals represented a serious embarrassment and threat to the International unions.
- It brought serious embarrassment to the Singapore government, and many questions raised by the public and the press.
- Any admissions of wrongdoing in the agreement would be a serious embarrassment to the French government.
- You have already conjured a serious embarrassment from my very clear instructions for these men.
- The failure to fight the drug war in its own backyard, by a power that preached so readily to others, would be a serious embarrassment.
- Their disclosures were, however, likely to cause serious political embarrassment to the Government.
- By the time Tryon made the turn, he was in danger of serious embarrassment.
- There followed a period of serious embarrassment which was only solved with difficulty.
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