It should also be much easier to sack inefficient and incompetent employees.

It would be very awkward if the aid scheme returned.

It is embarrassing because it puts you in an awkward position.

I think it is rather awkward to have to make a speech without a copy of the text.

Residence permits are granted for just short periods of time and it is awkward and costly to renew them.

It is historically charged and naturally it is an awkward situation.

As in the story about the half - cup of water, some will see it as half full and some as half empty.

Last time, you spoke of the glass being half full or half empty.

When it comes to human rights, we cannot say whether the glass is half full or half empty.

For me, the glass is not half full: it is more than half empty.

43747 5 million, half assigned to the budget item and half placed in the reserve.