That, according to numerous officials involved in the events, led to a sometimes awkward mix of co-operation and intense competition last week among senior law-enforcement officers.

The process of growing up is, for almost everyone, an awkward mix of dependence, longing for independence and need.

Now that's a miracle, at least in the scheme of this movie, a sometimes awkward mix of savviness and schmaltz.

It's an awkward mix, and perhaps meant to be: our time is short, nature's long.

Add to that an awkward mix of amateur and professional sailors on board the 70-foot boats, and the conditions were ripe for catastrophe.

But the stakes and contradictions pretty well sum up the Cultural Olympiad, a sometimes awkward mix of art and sports that is part of each Olympics.

He settles instead on an awkward mix of the three, as "Vicious Circle" lurches between tragedy and satire.

However, The Morning Program, with its awkward mix of news, entertainment, and comedy, became the joke of the industry, receiving scathing reviews.

At Ayatollah Sistani's urging, the alliance fought the elections with an awkward mix of candidates, some secular, some religious.

Citizens support this awkward mix of "hard" law and "soft" community-building not because they are hypocrites but because they are of two minds.