Sentence examples for awkward balancing act from inspiring English sources

US support is more problematic, as Obama performs an awkward balancing act.

All else being equal, higher levels of capital mean lower returns on equity.That leaves regulators with an awkward balancing act.

As the Maoists strive to cast themselves as law-abiding leaders, word and deed reflect an awkward balancing act.

But the fuss this week underscored the awkward balancing act for Mr. Obama, whose administration refused to refund federal estate taxes to an 83-year-old lesbian even though he thought it was wrong not to.

Of the 23,000 people in its international consumer-finance division, fewer than 200 are American; every national consumer-finance business bar one is run by a local.This switch will leave an awkward balancing act for Mr Welch's successor.

Hibben's lament captured the sport's awkward balancing act — The New Yorker's archives reveal how trainers, owners, and fans lived its contradictions: they watched because they loved the horses, and they bet and bought and sold because they loved the money.

The arrangement reached between Mr Shapiro and John Stafford, AHP's chief executive, to co-chair the new company always seemed awkward; the balancing act may have become even harder further down the company ranks.

After a decade of difficult and not always friendly negotiations between the United Nations and the Cambodians, a hybrid tribunal is in place, with Cambodian and foreign co-prosecutors and co-judges in an awkward political and legal balancing act.

But it is often a delicate balancing act, and as Kenya showed, it can get awkward.

I sometimes find I'm performing a balancing act between providing a service that's beneficial to the client, and then feeling awkward when asking them to pay me at the end of the session.

Making eye contact for an appropriate length of time is a delicate social balancing act: too short, and we look shifty and untrustworthy; too long, and we seem awkward and overly intimate.