Sentence examples for awkward countries from inspiring English sources
Two or three actively awkward countries will be enough to guarantee chaos.
Nailing the U.K. via a hard Brexit will send a message to all the populations of the fiddly little awkward countries in the EU that leaving the EU would be economic suicide, and demonstrate to their politicians that the process is political suicide.
But so far only one big, awkward country, Russia, has formally applied to join the OECD.In May it was cordially welcomed as a full participant in the OECD's highest-profile activity: a convention to outlaw bribery.
King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz was a skilful manager of his awkward country after he took over as effective regent in 1995, when King Fahd was disabled by a stroke.
Tuesday's recordings in Australia and the debate they have triggered are yet another indication that the NRA's global pro-gun campaign could easily turn awkward in countries without a Second Amendment.
ON SUNDAY, Muhammad Khatami becomes president of Iran, presenting the West with a chance to rethink its policy towards an awkward, important country in a part of the world that remains as this week's bombs in Jerusalem show dangerously unstable.
Awkward, but both countries say there is no danger of them coming to blows, as they so often have before.
Messrs Roh and Koizumi had many bilateral issues to discuss, from efforts to put their countries' awkward history behind them to plans for boosting trade and investment.
Still, his return to the top of the Slovak tree would pose some awkward questions for countries already in the EU, for those striving to join it, and for the European Commission in Brussels.
It would be, at the least, awkward for European countries to plunge back into nuclear energy at the same time that European diplomats are demanding that the Iranians scale back their nuclear ambitions.
