1.   Awkward questions Sometimes even well-meaning interviewers will throw you a really awkward question.

2.   How can we keep the press from asking awkward questions?

3.   Maybe have a walk down the fence line to consider our position and prepare ourselves for awkward questions.

4.   Missile defence has a political momentum that makes a supposedly awkward question such as whether it really works pale almost into irrelevance.

5.   My knowledge of history and myself made me ask awkward questions.

6.   My presentation went remarkably smoothly, until one student asked an awkward question right at the end.

7.   Overfamiliarity at this stage also makes asking awkward questions more difficult.

8.   Some smart aleck at the back of the room kept standing up and asking awkward questions.

9.   Start thinking Both sides spare themselves awkward questions that badly need to be answered.

10.   The exchange is purely ritual in function, authorizing Bert Braddock to reassure anxious shop stewards if they start asking awkward questions.