In fact, the Administration's record has been studded with diplomatic embarrassment.

The rescue effort two weeks ago became a diplomatic embarrassment for the British government.

But the list also may contain items whose principal danger to the United States is diplomatic embarrassment.

Already, the ship has caused a ripple of diplomatic embarrassment in the region.

But someone has decided to save some diplomatic embarrassment, and serve up the fake to Her Majesty.

For the United States, the back dues have become a nagging diplomatic embarrassment.

But what began as a well-intentioned plan to expand cultural horizons has turned into a political and diplomatic embarrassment.

In order to avoid diplomatic embarrassment he returned to Russia.

But protocol notwithstanding, it would have been a diplomatic embarrassment for all involved to hold a first-ever summit meeting there.

If the presence of this Iraqi in our country became widely known, it would be a diplomatic embarrassment for us.