Sentence examples for an awkward matter from inspiring English sources

Severance pay had been an awkward matter for Mr. Lay in the last week.

The haunting daguerreotypes of seven enslaved men and women taken in South Carolina in 1850 have long been an awkward matter at Harvard.

He and Team Clegg have effectively colluded to get rid of an awkward matter, with no further reproach issued by the leader.

Through it all, analysts here and in Hong Kong have said that the roiling of discontent in a place that has hardly been a beacon of political activism has been an awkward matter for Chinese leaders.

No one was more effective at this than the Scottish Conservatives, who fought last week's vote on the single issue of opposing a second referendum, allowing them to avoid the awkward matter of standing up for their own record in government.

But none of these proposals addresses the awkward matter of regressive taxation the use of revenue from a state-run lottery for projects (white elephants such as the Millennium Dome, for instance, or toffs' playgrounds like the Royal Opera House, or indeed more traditional "good causes" such as health or education initiatives) which should be paid for by other means.

Which brings us to the awkward matter of resignations.

One source of tension between experimentalists and theorists is the awkward matter of credit.

At his May 2002 confirmation hearing, Judge Smith got around that awkward matter by simply renouncing his speech, suggesting his views were more complicated.

If "Titanic" had failed, it would have been Fox's chairman, Bill Mechanic, whose job was on the line....It falls to Chernin to address the awkward matter of paying Cameron.

There's also the awkward matter of President Obama's own religious background: The White House probably would rather not do anything that might revive the 2008 debate over the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.