Sentence examples for awkward to raise from inspiring English sources

I know it can be awkward to raise the subject of compensation.

You can find it in Abraham Lincoln's code of conduct for the American civil war, in the Geneva Conventions, and in the statutes of modern war-crimes tribunals.Still, that can seem like an awkward point to raise in situations where many other unspeakable things are happening.

Analysts said it would be awkward for ArvinMeritor to raise the subject again any time soon.

They are in the awkward position of trying to raise the alarm in rich ones that don't feel very threatened.

For the clerics who run Iran, Mr Nateq-Noori is seen as a safe pair of hands who can be trusted not to raise awkward questions about political reform.

But while many in Rome were looking forward, accusers in his native Argentina continued to raise awkward questions about the past and reproduced a document suggesting the Jesuit may have betrayed two of his priests to the murderous military dictatorship in the 1970s.

Michael Elmgreen (born Denmark 1961) and Ingar Dragset (born Norway 1969) love to raise such awkward questions with their work.

No one wanted to raise the awkward question of how authentic the Stadium is in the first place, since it was so drastically renovated in the nineteen-seventies that not much of the original 1923 structure actually remains.

To raise the awkward level even further, Heidel is the one behind Schalke's attempt to sign Weinzierl, which makes Heldt's position almost as untenable as Breitenreiter's.

So too was the fact that he used the occasion to raise several awkward social issues awful sanitation; the too-widespread practice of aborting female foetuses; the shame he feels at the prevalence of rape cases not usually subjects for leaders hoping to stir national pride.

Other acts ranged from the awkward to the hair raising, literally so in the case of a six-foot-plus performer whose specialty is a striptease on roller skates; after caroming back and forth across the stage, she swerved toward the audience, teetering to a queasy stop before hurtling into the air.