It places Americans in the awkward position of weighing their patriotism against their vocation.
I'm sorry for putting my family in this awkward position, given some poor decisions and bad judgments I've made recently.
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But his probation officers put him in an awkward position, Mr. Lewis says, by making regular spot checks at the university.
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Instead, we find ourselves in the, rather, awkward position of being informed as to our client's IOC related matters from the press.
In the reverse, it would be painful to witness a member of the opposite sex in such an uncomfortable and awkward position.
Pakistan has found itself in an awkward position as it tries to cope with the political, military and humanitarian crisis building in the region.
On the other hand, that sometimes puts me in the awkward position of trying to figure out how to handle anonymous requests for medical advice.
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But the successful reform puts some communities in an awkward position.
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The decline in the external value of the Euro will be beneficial to the troubled countries causing it, but it leaves Germany, in particular, in an awkward position.
This has left Bush Administration officials in the awkward position of trying to tout what they consider an underappreciated and underreported recovery, while assuring voters they feel their pain.
This has left the industry in an awkward position: it needs more government money to fight the disease, but kicking up a fuss about it sours milk's wholesome image.
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But in the cases of Godbehere, in Hawaii, and Cox-Brown, in Oregon, the incriminating posts put them in the awkward position of having to disavow their own words, experts say.
President Dmitry Medvedev was put in the awkward position of ordering an investigation of the allegations against his own party, a party he will lead as its president starting next year.
Lawyers were then in the awkward position of trying to figure out what clients who followed their advice could do to reverse those 2010 taxable gifts, as I reported here.
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But that, too, has backfired on him, for Villeneuve found himself in 2003 in the awkward position of being the second best-paid driver in F1, but not having won a race in six years.
Sony found itself in an awkward position.
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In other words, the G-7 leaders were unwilling to put their friend Gorbachev in the awkward position of formally vetoing the insertion of monitors from either the United Nations or the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (or both).
Recently, Jeter was put in the awkward position of defending himself as a result of comments made by a sports television personality and journalist regarding his spectacular season at the age of 38 and a potential connection to human growth hormone.
So that leaves England in the awkward, unsatisfying position of being able to lose the match on Saturday and still win the Six Nations trophy.
That tends to make their position awkward.
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She was placed in the awkward post-divorce position of having, in the strictest terms of royal etiquette, to curtsey before her sons.
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