Indeed, some of the biggest remaining flaws in China's statistics are politically awkward.
But a bailout will be politically awkward for Chancellor Angela Merkel's government.
But the threat of fines is already posing politically awkward choices in Germany.
Certainly, establishing a link between development and disease would prove politically awkward.
Mr. Kostunica can sign an amnesty, but that is considered politically awkward here.
However, the next phase of the attack is much more politically awkward.
This makes it politically awkward for either firm to fire workers and shrink capacity when times call for it.
American financial support for the conference may be "politically awkward", says a diplomat in Khartoum, Sudan's capital.
If in Washington it's politically awkward to refer to the genocide, it is positively dangerous to do so in Istanbul.
That creates a politically awkward situation, in that much of the need is in rebel-held areas.
This may be unfair, but challenging it is politically awkward and no party has shown much appetite for doing so.
