The last thing the United States needs right now is international embarrassment over a successful attack on one of her warships.

"He would not let himself in for an international embarrassment," Leffler said.

The annual seal hunt is a disgrace, and a huge international embarrassment to Canada.

Today's decision appears to hold virtually no political benefit for the Administration to offset the international embarrassment.

A small localised problem became a huge international embarrassment for the British.

Washington is too afraid of international embarrassment and political smears back home, if the facts come out.

We have police brutality that's an international embarrassment for the city.

A few years later Thatcher caused international embarrassment to his mother.

It had been an international embarrassment the first time it had happened.

Russian prosecutors are investigating the episode, which became an international embarrassment.