Sentence examples for face the awkward from inspiring English sources

Yet partnerships still face the awkward balance between bonuses and payments to owners.

Labor will face the awkward situation of having to vote on a series of amendments moved by the Senate crossbench designed to enshrine greater safeguards.

Scotland, who entertain Ireland next Saturday, may yet do them a favour, but England now face the awkward proposition of a visit from France, the one team who could beat them.

Conservatives are deeply committed to the view that the size of government has exploded under President Obama but face the awkward fact that public employment is down sharply, while overall spending has been falling fast as a share of G.D.P. SNAP, however, really has grown a lot, with enrollment rising from 26 million Americans in 2007 to almost 48 million now.

Plaid, who at one time thought Leanne Wood would be spending today around a negotiating table at Westminster, now face the awkward challenge of making their voice heard in a Plaid/SNP/Green parliamentary group in which they have 5%% of the membership.

I'd also decided that the only way to face the awkward situation ahead was in disguise.

MONSTER HIGH, the line of fashion dolls from Mattel that features the teenage children of legendary monsters facing the awkward struggles of high school, is getting a social conscience.

He also faces the awkward prospect of extensive media coverage of a series of trials of current and former News International executives and journalists over alleged phone hacking and bribery beginning in the autumn.

Not only would any arrests be a blow to News International, the News Corporation's British subsidiary, but the company also faces the awkward prospect that any current or former News of the World employee facing prison might be tempted to argue, with specific examples, that wrongdoing was widespread at the paper.

If the pope changed the rule, he would not only be admitting that the Church had until that moment been wrong on a profoundly serious matter, but also would be facing the awkward prospect of retrieving all those transgressors from the eternal flames.

The legitimacy and constitutionality of lame-duck legislation is called into question every time another lame-duck session arrives, when the country faces the awkward gap of time between the exit of one set of legislators and the formal seating of their elected successors.