Sentence examples for occupy awkward from inspiring English sources
In response, Ms. Schwartz says that many of her gardens occupy awkward urban lots that can't support much greenery to begin with.
A result is that many of the candidates occupy an awkward position, caught between "isolationist" and "missionary" views, as one Republican foreign policy sage, Henry A. Kissinger, characterized them in a recent interview.
Mr. Deng's death has once again drawn national attention to China's army of urban management officials, known as chengguan, who occupy an awkward and ill-defined place in the government's apparatus to maintain stability.
But in the years that followed, the one-child policy came to occupy an awkward position in the public consciousness: reviled on a personal level, but passively tolerated on a national level because the blunt fact was that people were glad not to have more people among them, more competition for food and jobs and college admissions.
I wanted to occupy the awkward space between extremes.
Yet rather than sitting at the top of the food chain celebrating the world catching up, the 'Godfather of Grime' appears to occupy an awkward position in his own universe.
Emergency contraceptives continue to occupy an awkward position within the family planning repertoire in Ethiopia and are, unlike other contraceptive methods that are actively promoted, still seen as something that should not be promoted.
Then there's Brian, who occupies the awkward middle ground.
Nevertheless, King Day has occupied an awkward niche in the progression of American commemorations.
SYRIA'S al-Qaeda franchise, Jabhat al-Nusra, has long occupied an awkward middle ground in the country.
BRITAIN'S private health-care occupies an awkward position in a country where the taxpayer-funded National Health Service (NHS) is often referred to as a "national religion".
