With the notable exception of Yohji Yamamoto and Y-3 (his decadelong collaboration with Adidas, which is much more fashion than fitness), fashion designers and sports brands make awkward bedfellows.
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You hand out invitations to people all over town (who promptly decline to come) and then when you return to him, the game forces you to sit there for two minutes while no one shows up and Claptrap tries to make awkward small talk with you at his empty party.
While some services could no doubt be compelling on the TV, the lack of proper platforms, standards and user experiences make them awkward to implement, and the current TV widget platforms are simply too limited make much headway in capturing the consumer.
Not in most European countries: strong labour laws and strongish unions make that awkward.
That could make life awkward for both Italy and France, Germany's closest European partner.
They can make things awkward for Mr Museveni's ruling National Resistance Movement, especially around Kampala, the capital.
So far this year four life insurers have gone bust trying to make these awkward ends meet, and others will follow.
When the young members of Generation-i use their phones to send text messages, the small keyboards make typing awkward and abbreviations even more important: "b4n" (bye for now), "cu" (see you).
True, in bowling reverse swing from round the wicket, Pakistan left-armer Mohammad Amir did make life awkward in that right-handed batsmen can easily be drawn into playing at balls that they should be leaving.
David Cameron will be pondering what the implications of this election could be for internal party discipline: could UKIP's march forward see the battalions of Eurosceptic Tory MPs make life awkward for the prime minister?
You might all become rich but you also might shake up a relationship or two and that might make for an awkward family dinner.
Indeed, for the next two-and-a-half years, its agenda is likely to be set by a succession of countries whose definition of national interest could make life quite awkward for the rest.
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That tends to make their position awkward.
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But when bankers leave in awkward circumstances, they make out like a lottery winner (Bob Diamond, formerly of Barclays, has done worse on this score than others).
It's always a bit awkward when you have to make those changes.
His loose and confident lines and ingenious compositions make other pulp novel illustrations look flat and awkward.
While I certainly wanted to make her feel better, professionally, it felt awkward to have a good old-fashioned chat to find out what was wrong.
And by focusing its campaign on the most dangerous proliferators and nuclear terrorism, it raises an awkward question: will minutely choreographed multilateralism make much difference to the hardest cases?
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Yet New Guinea's awkward geography, poor infrastructure and myriad ethnic divisions make it difficult to mount an effective prevention campaign.
He's always awkward and ugly to face - I want to make it uncomfortable for the South African batters - Steve is my man.
By late spring, when unemployment doubles to over 1m, bankruptcies soar among both big and small companies, and inflation resumes, no amount of squeezing of the chaebol to make them pay for their previous sins will prevent South Korea's awkward unions from storming back into the streets.
Awkward though this is, e-mail's rigid protocols make it hard to innovate in the in-box.
The UI design of the Razer Synapse software is cool and minimalist looking, but clicking through the interface becomes awkward at times, and I think improvements could be made to make navigation through the various tabs a more fluid user experience.
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One awkward feature of the holiday season in recent years has been the contortions we go through to make proper salutations to strangers.
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The big but somewhat awkward truth--awkward in a democratic society that believes so fervently in equality--is that the schools make far less difference than your own ability.
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