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With China having all but abandoned its “peaceful rise” strategy, avoiding violent conflict will be a delicate balancing act.
Nevertheless, the ethics of RCTs in developing countries are delicate, and some critics have argued that while RCTs can be ethical in theory, they aren’t in practice.
Moreover, given the portfolio’s lack of policy specialization, this commissioner could support von der Leyen in handling particularly urgent, controversial, or otherwise delicate issues – such as migration or eurozone reform – that require extra political effort to enable progress.
Nonetheless, history also shows that such relationships are delicate, and thus highly vulnerable to political disruptions.
The government has effortlessly bullied some of the world’s largest and best-known companies into submission after they offended its delicate political sensitivities.
For the European Union, Belarus is a delicate issue.
It is a delicate role, to say the least.
The situation remains delicate, not least because much of Argentina’s public debt is denominated in foreign currencies.
Balancing high-level reform imperatives with often-divergent national political pressures is a delicate task.
Turkish Democracy Is Down, But Not OutMADRID – Relations between Turkey and the West are clearly going through an extremely delicate phase.
Given Bolivia’s delicate political situation, researchers participating in this debate should proceed with great caution.
The delicate white outer bark adhered to the phosphorus, and the light went out.
'But she always was delicate.'
'With Peter Ilyich Vinovsky's compliments,' interrupted an old waiter, bringing two delicate glasses of still sparkling champagne on a tray, and addressing Oblonsky and Levin.
Katavasov did not like him because he was effeminate, spoilt, and delicate; he was evidently sure, especially now that he was tipsy, that he was performing an heroic deed, and he bragged most unpleasantly.
'She recovered then, but to-day or tomorrow, or in ten years' time, they will bury her and nothing will be left of her, nor of that smart girl with the red skirt, who with such dexterous and delicate movements is beating the chaff from the ears.
She was speaking of the eldest Levaque, a big girl of nineteen, and the mistress of Zacharie, by whom she had already had two children; her chest was so delicate that she was only a sifter at the pit, never having been able to work below.
She must have found him handsome, with his delicate face and black moustache.
The curé of Montsou, Abbé Joire, was passing, holding up his cassock, with the delicate air of a fat, well-nourished cat afraid of wetting its fur.
She spoke with the soft voice of a big, delicate girl, without passion, simply tired of her life.
His small figure allowed him to slip about everywhere, and though his arms were as delicate and white as a woman's, they seemed to be made of iron beneath the smooth skin, so vigorously did they perform their task.
He must have been about thirty years old, fair and slender, with a delicate face framed by thick hair and a slight beard.
With his delicate hand he pointed out the Voreux, the buildings of which could be seen through the open door.
But not a breath of it entered; a greenhouse warmth developed the delicate odour of the pineapple, sliced in a crystal bowl.
An ecstasy raised him on his chair, a mystic flame darted from his pale eyes, and his delicate hands gripped the edge of the table almost to breaking.
The frozen moss crackled beneath the heels of the crowd, while the beeches, erect in their strength, with the delicate tracery of their black branches against the white sky, neither saw nor heard the miserable beings who writhed at their feet.
She smelled of perfume, she wore a watch, she had the delicate skin of a lazy woman who had never touched coal.
A luminous ceiling, decorated with delicate arabesques, distributed a soft, clear daylight over all the wonders gathered in this museum.
Among these exhibits I'll mention, just for the record: an elegant royal hammer shell from the Indian Ocean, whose evenly spaced white spots stood out sharply against a base of red and brown; an imperial spiny oyster, brightly colored, bristling with thorns, a specimen rare to European museums, whose value I estimated at 20,000 francs; a common hammer shell from the seas near Queensland, very hard to come by; exotic cockles from Senegal, fragile white bivalve shells that a single breath could pop like a soap bubble; several varieties of watering-pot shell from Java, a sort of limestone tube fringed with leafy folds and much fought over by collectors; a whole series of top-shell snails--greenish yellow ones fished up from American seas, others colored reddish brown that patronize the waters off Queensland, the former coming from the Gulf of Mexico and notable for their overlapping shells, the latter some sun-carrier shells found in the southernmost seas, finally and rarest of all, the magnificent spurred-star shell from New Zealand; then some wonderful peppery-furrow shells; several valuable species of cythera clams and venus clams; the trellis wentletrap snail from Tranquebar on India's eastern shore; a marbled turban snail gleaming with mother-of-pearl; green parrot shells from the seas of China; the virtually unknown cone snail from the genus Coenodullus; every variety of cowry used as money in India and Africa; a "glory-of-the-seas," the most valuable shell in the East Indies; finally, common periwinkles, delphinula snails, turret snails, violet snails, European cowries, volute snails, olive shells, miter shells, helmet shells, murex snails, whelks, harp shells, spiky periwinkles, triton snails, horn shells, spindle shells, conch shells, spider conchs, limpets, glass snails, sea butterflies-- every kind of delicate, fragile seashell that science has baptized with its most delightful names.
Among these valuable water plants, I noted various seaweed: some Cladostephus verticillatus, peacock's tails, fig-leafed caulerpa, grain-bearing beauty bushes, delicate rosetangle tinted scarlet, sea colander arranged into fan shapes, mermaid's cups that looked like the caps of squat mushrooms and for years had been classified among the zoophytes; in short, a complete series of algae.
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