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Discover LudwigThe phrase "awkward coalition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a partnership or alliance that is uncomfortable or strained, often due to differing interests or ideologies.
Example: "The negotiations were challenging due to the awkward coalition formed between the two parties, each with their own conflicting agendas."
Alternatives: "uncomfortable alliance" or "clumsy partnership".
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He's smart enough to manage even an awkward coalition".
Others are less sure, suggesting instead that the two parties could go into (awkward) coalition together.
This would probably require an awkward coalition between left and right.
There is no Congress to hold him back, no Bundestag, no awkward coalition partner standing in his way.
Others are less sure, suggesting instead that the outcome might be an awkward coalition of the SNS and the Democrats.
As in East Timor, the result would probably be clearly for independence.Aceh remains the most delicate problem facing Mr Wahid's awkward coalition government.
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Now that Germany has five national parties instead of three, the country is likely to see more awkward coalitions, or grand coalitions in the Austrian style.
Uneasy coalition?
He depended on an awkward legislative coalition between his leftist allies and the more centrist Liberal party.
The 59-year-old pastor's daughter from eastern Germany was forced to negotiate with her arch-rivals in the SPD, with whom she ruled in an awkward "grand coalition" during her first term between 2005 and 2009.
Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat party leader and deputy prime minister, has warned that the party is "prepared to be awkward" in coalition "to put things right" as he sought to assert the party's distinctive role in government.
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