Sentence examples for awkward admission from inspiring English sources

By their own awkward admission, the Cambodian and international judges responsible for investigating the additional cases have restricted their staff to desk review; no field investigation is underway.

After the awkward admission comes the killer question: "Conflict of interest?" You have to watch Tony Blair's discomfiture at that question.

Don't count on it: since Sunday's awkward admission, Japanese officials have been out in force, insisting as usual that they have everything under control.

On Tuesday, one of Mr. McCain's advisers told The New York Times that the campaign had decided to forgo public financing in the general election, an awkward admission for a senator who has made campaign finance reform a central part of his political persona.

In addition, the staggered introduction of the reforms - they will not be fully completed until 2020 - will make it awkward for admissions officers coping with pupils who have taken a mixture of old and new A-levels.

As Nadelmann notes, it is now acceptable to admit pot smoking as preterit (thanks, Barack), a big step forward from the awkward half-admissions of the 1990s.

His first shot in his first practice in more than a month was, by his own admission, "pretty awkward," but it took Nets center Todd MacCulloch no more than an instant to get it right.

The Selling of a Serial Killer was a remarkable movie in the now-celebrated Broomfield-Churchill style: loosely constructed in narrative terms, but tight in its polemics, featuring the languidly handsome and posh-voiced Broomfield extracting stunning admissions and awkward contradictions from his subjects and bamboozling them with his amiably dazed and boyish manner.

Making that admission is slightly awkward, given that on Tuesday you'll be able to watch me take part in a CNNMoney / Webbies debate with Gary Vaynerchuk where I argue in favour of the motion that "social media is overrated".

After a rough trek of several days by foot and boat that left him disheveled, dirty and hungry, Franklin, by his own admission, made a "most awkward ridiculous appearance" as he walked up busy Market Street.

By his own admission the talk was awkward, full of um's and ah's - but it was passionate, honest, funny at points - and came from the heart.