Sentences with phrase «awkward fact»

Other attempts at dismissing awkward facts received less attention, because they're only discussed among those who understand climate change.

But in these post-Enlightenment times one can't help but suspect that the fuss over Antarctic glaciers (by silly rags like WaPo) is to obscure a very large and awkward fact of recent years:

Even today when pressures such as «outing» seek to enforce a gay identity on all homosexuals, many of them take the view that homosexuality is just one facet of their identity - whether an advantage, or a curse, or simply a slightly awkward fact about themselves - which has little bearing on the rest of their lives outside the bedroom.

The McGraths conclude, «Dawkins is forced to contend with the highly awkward fact that his view that the natural sciences are an intellectual superhighway to atheism is rejected by most scientists, irrespective of their religious views» (p. 21).

You might have spotted a very awkward fact thrown in there — the three - to - one spending ratio, which is not addressed directly but is big, bad news for the opposition.

Fact: today is CINCO de Mayo Fact: No one knows what it is supposed to be celebrating Fact: I tell you the history of Cinco de Mayo in this week's episode of Forget the FACTS Fact: We might make fun of George W. Bush Fact: It's still easy to make fun of him even though he isn't president anymore Fact: I'm tired Fact: Michael Phelps is socially awkward Fact: Forget the FACTS is funny and you should share, comment, and rate it.

This awkward fact is exacerbated on the right right now because conservatives are currently out of power and typically tend away from tact.

Many who found the holy blood and gore of Mel Gibson's Passion quite acceptable will find the all - too - human flesh and blood of Ball's cast of characters unacceptably disturbing in its aching, uncertain, struggling humanity, weeping and giggling at the awkward facts of life and death.

The passive voice enables him to finesse the awkward fact that the Turkish government laid stringent restrictions on expression of religious faith, including the forms of church architecture.

There is still the awkward fact that CB is 230 + games in to his career and has a lower goals / game ratio than OG.

One awkward fact is that MO actually covers more ground on average than nearly anyone in our team — consistently 2nd or 3rd in the Opta stats.

Yes they had the lowest net spend (a trifling # 65M if I remember correctly) but the awkward fact that they had still spent the most (# 222M) was not mentioned.

You are right Styles — but it is an awkward fact that with everyone clamouring for big spending to «guarantee» improvement and everyone in raptures over City they are the least changed top 5 team and are fielding 10 of their players from last season.

Yet they're finding arguments that legislating on Lords reform was in the Tory manifesto, or even the coalition agreement, are being undermined by the awkward fact they're not entirely true.

Opening prosecution arguments in the Joe Percoco trial naturally focused on corruption, but the drama also spotlights the awkward fact that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's «job creation» programs seem to produce...

At last week's gathering of school - choice supporters, there was an awkward fact in their midst: A wave of new studies had shown that students receiving a voucher did worse, sometimes much worse, on standardized tests.

In fact, the most recent evidence, based on the last ten years of wind power production in Europe, raises three awkward facts: 1.

But it's an awkward fact for coal boosters.

There's also the awkward fact that weeks before the spill, the White House announced a vast expansion of offshore drilling.

It's an awkward fact of life: the smart home, and the Internet of Things in general, is meant to make life more streamlined but can often just leave us poking at our phones more frequently.