Sentence examples for for awkward realities from inspiring English sources

The point is that Friedman was, when all is said and done, a pragmatist; he leaned right ideologically, but was willing to make room for awkward realities.

The growing demand for rooms with that view is just one of the many awkward realities of trying to provide hospitality within the police-patrolled perimeters of a singular crime scene.

The Middle East is rich in awkward realities.

To that extent, Blair is avoiding some of the most awkward realities about the invasion he led in 2003.

In an op-ed in the Times earlier this year, Avi Shlaim, the eminent Israeli historian who teaches at Oxford, pointed out some awkward realities: The simple truth is that Israel wouldn't be able to survive for very long without American support.

We'd do better to confront these awkward realities and muddle through more intelligently.

"Everybody wants the first visit of the Messiah," remarks one French official wryly.Beyond all this vying for attention lies an awkward reality that might roughly be summed up as the end of the Bush excuse.

Second, these trends reflect another awkward reality for Le Pen – that despite spending six years trying to "detox" her divisive party, she is still incredibly toxic among the wider public.

For many reasons – commercial, diplomatic, intellectual – we need to wake up to the awkward reality that monoglottism is bad for us.

For the present and for some years to come there is no way to escape the awkward reality that the oil reserves of the Middle East are crucial to the world economy.

For the ideologues who want to roll back the state in favour of profiteering companies, the failure of privately run rail is an awkward reality.