Bystanders understandably wonder which is worse awkward rebranding or awkward puns.

No one doubts that Barroso is in an awkward position.

I feel awkward in his presence.

To state the obvious, this contrast between Germany and its neighborhood is very awkward.

To be sure, Vladimir Putin s Russia is nationalistic, awkward, and disposed to dangerous trouble making.

CP At first, very kind of pained, awkward conversations.

Confronted with an awkward problem, he responded with reason.

Stability is at the heart of his thinking. Hence, he could not accept America s awkward pro democracy agenda.

While this makes them awkward candidates for any academic discipline, such is the ambivalence of any intellectual s legacy.

This is particularly awkward at a time when the Chinese authorities seem to be taking an even harder line on dissent.

Those attending the Rio 20 Summit should embrace this promising, if awkward, strategic opportunity.

They have to go through their primary one, that's already awkward, and then they go through their second self's adolescence, and that's even more awkward because there's an actual history of what they've gone through online.

A very awkward hour passed before he accepted reality and made a gracious concession speech.

I'm like a junior varsity cheerleader sometimes for swearing, awkward silences, and very simple rhyme schemes.

Their literary power derives from their authors courage to ask awkward questions and write with honesty.

Islamist candidates were in an awkward position, seeking support from women voters, whose participation they opposed.

Green eco activists, while feeling awkward about support from this quarter, nonetheless find them useful allies.

It feels a little awkward in the beginning but you get used to it very quickly.

In Paris, a tired and awkward university rector asks the police to clear protesters from the Sorbonne.

For those who advocate the spread of democracy in the world, this has posed an awkward dilemma.

Yet, as Russia approaches the 60th anniversary of its victory over Nazi Germany, marking Stalin s role in that victory is proving to be damnably awkward.

He joins John Kerry in an awkward push to convince international banks that doing business with a theocratic dictatorship is in the interest of everyone.

As I am sure you will appreciate, the current situation is awkward and stressful to the Tribunal as a body and to the individual members thereof.

It's so awkward to work up there that sometimes I even gave the injections right through their clothes.

It was inconvenient because gold was awkward for everyday transactions, and silver had too little value for major transfers.

On the back, we see an awkward looking man, the same who appears in the plane scene on Toxic .

This would complete a somewhat awkward Cape to Cairo line with three gauges ( twice) and three breaks of gauge.

And anybody coming in new to technology is an adolescent online right now, and so it's very awkward, and it's very difficult for them to do those things.

Awkward as it may look, Chen asked the Chinese government to investigate the illegal harm local officials had infringed on him.

The agreed international programmes speak of their situation unfortunately, their lack of implementation has placed such countries in an awkward situation.

Also Prodavinci, Qué Leer , Letralia, and the one that I feel slightly awkward about putting in my PhD bibliography Nalgas y Libros .

The MTR summary did not fully reflect the awkward situation of the UNICEF embargo on cash advances, especially in the education sector.

Being an awkward partner may offer Russia its best hope of reconciling its yearning for independence with the realities of the modern world.

The British and Chinese governments in the 1980's designed Hong Kong's awkward political system during their negotiations over the eventual transfer of sovereignty.

Though it is possible to sympathize with the Ghanaians, who were placed in a very awkward position, the indictment intensified demands for Taylor s removal. He fled into exile in August, effectively ending the war.

Arab Israeli youth are not required to serve in the military so as not to place them in an awkward position, fighting against their brothers.

For starters, the existing treaty cannot be used to create a single European resolution authority, leaving an awkward interface between the ECB and national authorities.

I explain chemical equilibrium using analogies to awkward middle school dances, and I talk about fuel cells with stories about boys and girls at a summer camp.

The one narrow exception that law would preserve for carrying out an abortion instances when a mother's life is in danger will put doctors in the dangerously awkward position of deciding when a pregnancy's threat to a mother's life is direct enough.

In particular, we wonder if it is desirable for nations to be given a means for abdicating their responsibility where quot the criminal justice system of a small State is overwhelmed by the magnitude of a particular offence quot (p. 11) or the prosecution is otherwise awkward.

Broadly speaking, France has been the awkward partner in the Anglo American club a role it played right up to its orchestration of opposition to the Iraq war in 2003.

It would be a bit awkward, but the esteemed guests could also view An Inconvenient Truth, narrated by Al Gore, the man Bush narrowly defeated in the 2000 US presidential election.

The rice that you ate in the lunch, and you will eat today, is transplanted by women bending in a very awkward posture, millions of them, every season, in the paddy season, when they transplant paddy with their feet in the water.

I want to say that really and truly, after these incredible speeches and ideas that are being spread, I am in the awkward position of being here to talk to you today about television.

Even though your ascension to the position of Prime Minister came in an awkward way because of Ariel Sharon s stroke, I believe that you have an opportunity to be part of a historic reconciliation.