It is awkward to hold foreigners to higher standards than you impose on yourself.
For Mr Strauss-Kahn, it is awkward to be yoked to a policy platform so far to his left.
The NXT's dim blue-on-gray LCD panel seems a throwback to a distant era, and creating graphics for it is awkward.
But it is awkward that a critic had so little trouble catching a dealer quoting for a car it did not have.
It is awkward for Mr Blair to be seeing the president at the end of the sequence as he would have less chance of influencing any decisions.
"It is an awkward bend and there is an awkward camber but there's enough signs saying slow down, " he said.
It is not without its awkward moments, and its scale is truly modest.
And while that inclusion of hydrocarbon revenue ensures that Scotland looks relatively less unhealthy than the UK as a whole, it is also where the awkward questions come from.
As it is, the full-sized iPad is in an awkward middle ground.
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Man, is it going to be awkward when the host of the Academy Awards has to walk back onstage to receive Best Director.
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The view that adjustment will come through share prices rather than capital accumulation turns Mr Tobin on his head, so it is unsurprising, if rather awkward for the authors, that the great man by no means endorses his disciples.
The Christian Social Union is a desperately awkward ally for him, but an ally it is nonetheless.
Yet, if talking about Korea is awkward now, it will be even more fraught in the teeth of a crisis.
Daimler's predicament is particularly awkward, as it has a stake in, er, Airbus.
The awkward fact is that it is virtually impossible to store power efficiently.
Doubtless it is going to be a little buggy and awkward at first.
' You merely have to say that sentence out loud to see that it is not English, but sounds like the awkward sentence of a recently arrived foreigner.
It's an awkward gesture (except for a left-handed person) but is justified aesthetically because it extends from Jesus's dexterous command.
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For Lockheed that is slightly awkward: neither America's defence budget nor Lockheed's share of it is likely to grow much.
It is Mr Sarkozy who finds himself in the most awkward spot.
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But it is also possible that the story conceals an even more awkward dining partner for September 9th.
And the bombing campaign is awkward for Republicans, not least because it opens up old divisions within their ranks.
This is fine for the most part, except turning around to fight badguys behind you is awkward and makes the game harder than it should be.
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It felt like an awkward first date, but he showed he is not afraid to address difficult subjects in front of a skeptical audience.
In switching to online networking, this is viewed as less painful to conduct business on because it lacks the awkward moments of face-to-face encounters.
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Still young and unhappily single, overweight and self-conscious about it, balding, socially awkward, and style-challenged, Sylvain is a kindly schlub whose innocuous manner and well-meaning interventions hide his neediness and his heedlessness.
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