The paper points out that the dust-up is a particular embarrassment for a president for whom military issues have always been a matter of special sensitivity.

In a particular embarrassment for the Democratic Party, which held the office for eight years, its candidate, Bruce Morrison, placed a distant third.

If anything's amiss there it's a particular embarrassment to us; the Service is supposed to be responsible for the disposition of traitors.

It is Ms. Lopez Torres's victory that has been a particular embarrassment for the organization, in part because of the high profile of that campaign.

Besides his life and property, he had a reputation to protect, and this particular embarrassment had gone on long enough.

The father's lines are a particular embarrassment - spoken by Donald Symington with an aplomb undeserved by the material.

I'd rather thought that that particular embarrassment was part of the old chap's dilemma, the reluctance to disappoint when he'd promised.

The Chennai case was a particular embarrassment because it came hot on the heels of another spy scandal involving French and Polish intelligence.

And the scoreline will be of particular embarrassment to his club team-mate, Gerry Ainscough, who missed four out of five kickable penalties.

The case was a particular embarrassment for Japan, which has prided itself on its virtual ban on arms trading.