Sentence examples for awkward result from inspiring English sources

The awkward result: Instead of getting a Rolls Royce for its money, the state's treasurer has raged, "we're driving off in a (Ford) Pinto".

"With Conservatives 19 seats short, that's getting close to the most awkward result you can get," said David Lea, western europe analyst at Control Risks.

The question can then be asked whether y is a member of itself or not, with the following awkward result: if it is a member of itself, then it fails to fulfill the condition of membership of y, and hence it is not a member of y i.e., not a member of itself.

And on the website of Gordon Brown, the prime minister, an experiment in e-democracy had an awkward result: some 277,000 people used a click to register their opposition to the mega-mosque, much the biggest sign of voter interest that the site attracted.In many places, the accommodation, both literally and metaphorically, of Muslims and their religious needs has led to some strange coalitions.

However, for people's benefits to depend on factors beyond their control is a more awkward result for desert theorists who emphasize the responsibility of people in choosing to engage in more or less productive activities.

This has the awkward result that the original theory T is not ontologically committed to males if it just contains '∃x Bachelor(x)', or to animals if it just contains '∃x Elephant(x)'; only T with the postulates added is so committed.

But the election could produce more awkward results.

Many designers have made similar attempts to update the ballgown for the 21st century, usually with excruciatingly awkward results.

Crossing paths with a self-awareness couples group sharing the conference hotel, the programmers are variously prodded into (artificial?) interaction with profoundly awkward results.

Otherwise the only moments of stretching here come on a pair of songs — "So Bad," "Seduction" — on which he takes a crack at flirtatiousness, with awkward results.

(This does happen to venerable writing manuals, with awkward results: I've seen an incompletely updated edition of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, from the 1990s, that has the novice writer moving oddly between typewriter and computer).