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.
If you're an Assembly Member and a member of a scrutiny committee at that, then you're paid - partly - to ask the right, proper and the awkward questions when you get the chance.
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.
Mr Jones can pick holes in the prosecution's testimony, ask awkward questions about the defendants' links to other people who were never indicted, and cast doubt on laboratory evidence showing traces of explosive on Mr McVeigh's clothes.
More important, willing obscurity serves to repel outsiders and discourage the asking of awkward questions.
At the same time, donor countries are said to be asking awkward questions about the budget which was announced on June 15th.
The forthcoming debates over Superfund and the Endangered Species Act both raise awkward questions about how to balance protection of the environment against the rights of property owners.
In a separate article, the Archbishop said Jesus would have asked "awkward" questions of those involved in the St Paul's Cathedral protest, including campaigners, bankers and clergy.
In the Radio Times, Dr Williams said Jesus was not just a model of perfect behaviour and was "constantly asking awkward questions" in the Bible.
Correspondents say the new policy could pose awkward questions for US officials formulating policy towards some regular allies and regional powers.
The prospect of coaching forces awkward questions about how we regard failure.
At minimum, these tribunals would pose awkward questions to the United States about the evidence behind a seizure, how we gathered it and who vouches for the information.
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While country music played gently in the background and sheriff's deputies watched from the wings, two clerks asked the couples some innocent but awkward questions and logged addresses, phone numbers and relatives' names on a computer.
EU's new foreign-policy chief, will also be put in charge of the ten-nation Western European Union, a weak but explicitly military organisation which the larger body is now expected to swallow up, though this raises awkward questions about countries more involved with one than the other.
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Rather, the books written by the Palestinian Authority since the 1990s often shy away from awkward questions.
Mr Madoff reinforced the message by occasionally ejecting a client who asked awkward questions.
The children were a little young to know the difference between a question and a statement, so when the floor was opened for questions, it became a little awkward.
But when the markets turn, budding financial conglomerates could find themselves with more awkward questions to answer.
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.
The trouble for critics is that questions about Ms Dati's competence collide with France's awkward new political correctness.
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