He was pushed and pulled by different wings of his awkward coalition with the Greens.
Mr Bush is flawed but his conviction and commitment are at the core of his awkward style.
The unexpected death of his first wife and his awkward relationship with their two sons are also cause for sleepless nights.
Whether it will amount to anything more than a series of ad hoc measures to keep his awkward allies on-side remains to be seen.
Mr Netanyahu's immediate purpose is to keep his awkward coalition intact.
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Then there's his awkward romance with a lonely woman (Miranda Richardson, very good as usual) who works at the radio station where he preaches on Sunday mornings.
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He excels, in his awkward and restless way, at glad-handing.
He has used it to log on to her account and remove pictures of himself from his "awkward" teen-age stage, and sometimes to delete friends of his that she has befriended.
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Critics and musicians still nitpick over muddy textures in his symphonies and awkward solo writing in his concertos.
Old truths that the Fund's new chief would do well to repeat, when he first meets with his most awkward customer.
Some were surprised to see that Coldplay were among the most charismatic winners, and Chris Martin has definitely moved past his "awkward bloke rocker" phase.
This makes his outspokenness, not to mention his archaism, awkward.
"Hyatt also attempted to isolate Olbermann from his professional representatives in an awkward attempt to form a close personal friendship with his new star, " the suit says.
But as soon as my second brother arrived, the atmosphere would turn awkward with his talk of the mine and stones.
Andy Kaufman built his career on creating awkward public interactions.
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By choosing to focus on a big picture vision of his administration, Romney was able to avoid a deep dive into gun issues, which have provided for some awkward moments during his political career.
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It is quite possible, if Picasso had died the day he painted Les Demoiselles that neither he nor his painting of five awkward-looking, two-dimensional prostitutes parading their wares in front of the viewer would be any more than footnotes in the story of modern art.
He told the court that he left soon afterwards because, following his refusal, Mo Siddique had made things "awkward" for him, cutting his hours and claiming that rent payments had not been met.
Thrust into the spotlight during Toyota's acceleration-pedal recall in late 2009, his initial public comments seemed awkward.
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As Mr Prasad points out, there is an awkward paradox in his findings.
If this was meant as a legitimate stock sale, it places the context of his SEC disclosure in an awkward light.
Unless his current partners become too awkward, he is likely to stick with them, at least until after the 2002 general election.
Bush 43 beat the awkward Gore and his makeup and wardrobe problems.
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His tone sounded strangulated and awkward in an otherwise wild night.
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However, the IFA has cancelled the press conference rather than facing the prospect of the association's president being forced to field a barrage of awkward questions about his future.
By late fall, the SFO and Justice Department both had their eyes on Mr. Hayes, a trader known by colleagues as "Rain Man" for his sharp mind but socially awkward demeanor.
The economic crisis has hardly been fertile territory for the Conservatives, but their leader clearly judged it was time to plough into Labour's handling of the problems - and hope to bury the awkward questions over his shadow chancellor George Osborne.
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