We've reached an awkward and confusing division between Africans and black Americans, wherein black people in search of connection are accused of appropriating African culture and Africans face xenophobia from their brown-skinned counterparts.
This awkward formula permitted a Solomonic division of power in Venezuela: Maduro, a civilian, was to control the executive branch while his nemesis, Diosdado Cabello, a retired military man with great influence in the Army, would continue as President of the National Assembly.
Yet New Guinea's awkward geography, poor infrastructure and myriad ethnic divisions make it difficult to mount an effective prevention campaign.Myanmar presents even more daunting challenges.
And the bombing campaign is awkward for Republicans, not least because it opens up old divisions within their ranks.
This is a theoretically attractive approach, but it is awkward to implement since the quasi-Newton steps break the simple box division pattern of the original algorithm and also may cross box boundaries.
"Tim is a very well-intentioned guy who gets himself in awkward, terrible situations," said Sue Naegle, the recently appointed president of HBO's entertainment division, who inherited the show from her predecessor, Carolyn Strauss, and HBO's former chairman, Chris Albrecht.
But the timing for Nicolas Sarkozy, who was called in by the anti-corruption division of the judicial police in Nanterre on July 1st, was particularly awkward.
But ask Corporate America a simple junior high-level question in long division related to CEO compensation and some of these companies freeze like awkward teens at the sock hop.
And the 17 years of red ink, Mr Chang points out, is the length of time Nokia's electronics division lost money.When he isn't imagining the future, Mr Chang curates awkward historical facts calculated to discomfort neoliberals.
The emergence of artists like Kina and Macy Gray is evidence that musical divisions can be broken down, but not without prodding, and a few awkward moments.
