The phrase "awkward relations" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe uncomfortable or strained interactions between people, groups, or entities.
Example: "The two countries have maintained awkward relations since the diplomatic incident last year."
Alternatives: "strained relations" or "tense relations".
France's forces have performed well in Congo before, but its government has awkward relations with Rwanda, which backs the main rebel force.
Orwell's consistently awkward relations with women are the most obvious manifestation of what seems to have been an arrested emotional and social development.
Wouldn't it be easy to read Hamlet as a prototype Sherlock – with the common-sense friend and the awkward relations with women?
The result last week was a compelling Oval Office tableau, with all of its outsize personalities and awkward relations on full display.
The joint appearance by the current and last but one Labour leader, who have awkward relations, was organised by Alastair Campbell.
But perhaps his most awkward relations have been with his Baltic counterparts, Guntis Ulmanis of Latvia and Algirdas Brazauskas, Lithuania's outgoing president.This pair, less well known to the world than Mr Meri, nonetheless reveal a lot about their reinvented countries.
Of course, we already know that the subject of the crucifixion is one that Milton has long had an awkward relation to.
The working group has as its premise a double paradox of contemporary life: the hardening of ethnic and racial boundaries at a time when goods and information flow across national borders quite freely, and the racialization of social relations at a time when racial theories have an awkward relation to scientific prestige, and racial categories have become conspicuously unstable.
Thus the first international result of a stream of revelations from Edward Snowden, a fugitive NSA contractor, about the agency's industrial-scale snooping (relayed in this case via a Brazilian television programme), has been a further deterioration in the often-awkward relations between the two largest countries in the Americas.Few in Brazil were surprised by Ms Rousseff's decision.
Best-selling authors and the occasional social worker -- people in professions that presumably demand a keenly sensitive touch -- have made some awkward public relations missteps in recent weeks.
In an awkward public relations effort, American and British forces took journalists across the border from Kuwait today to show them the line of water trucks filling up at the spout inside the fenced-in compound while a handful of Iraqis shouted derisively from outside.
