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It is vital that the Copenhagen delegates recognize and promote Africa’s contribution to the world’s delicate climatic balance.
Cameron has succeeded in this delicate balancing act – and has been rewarded by voters.
The interim administration must undertake a delicate balancing act: Iraqis will have to be prevented from choosing how they will be ruled until the economic preconditions are in place for that choice to be genuinely free.
The battle to keep the world's cities – and thus the global economy – both dynamic and sustainable can be won by developing innovative ways to consume our limited resources, without diminishing them or degrading the delicate ecological systems on which they depend.
His acknowledgement that power within the ANC is “a very delicate matter” is telling.
The final chapter that should be added to the renegotiated NAFTA is also the most delicate: human rights.
They want to keep bathing in press coverage, but if they push their China-bashing too far and too fast, the protectionists will be seen as hindering delicate behind-the-scenes negotiations.
This delicate moment for the EU demands decisive progress toward a more effective, more integrated, and more desirable union.
The meeting comes at a delicate time, as a new group of leaders moves into China’s senior positions, and as the agenda has been broadened to include food and product safety, energy efficiency and security, and environmental sustainability.
The rule of secular law is the most delicate prerequisite of a liberal order.
There is always a delicate balance, to be sure, between commonly held views and individual liberties.
Immigration has always been an immensely complex and delicate issue inside the US, and now for Latin America as well.
This will involve difficult choices, delicate execution, and uncertain outcomes for both the federal government and the US Federal Reserve.
In Robert Gordon's estimation-and in mine-the roots of an economy-wide high-tech productivity boom like the one seen in the US are so delicate that they flourish in American but not in continental European soil.
This delicate situation could escalate into further currency intervention, trade protectionism, and capital controls.
When America’s misguided war in Iraq deposed Saddam Hussein in 2003, it upset a delicate balance.
To be sure, refugee labor is a delicate political issue for Syria’s neighbors.
Following an impressive election victory by his Syriza party in January, Greece’s prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, appointed Varoufakis to lead the delicate negotiations with the country’s creditors.
The tightening cycle upon which the Fed now seems set to embark comes at a delicate time for the economy.
But imposing conditionality on sovereign states is a delicate matter – especially when the countries involved are as large, proud, and diverse as the BRICS.
The large existing community of former immigrants could be helpful in articulating and implementing that delicate balance, imperfect as it may have been at times.
But the Olympics will also bring intense international scrutiny of China’s weaknesses at a delicate moment in the country’s development.
In Lula’s meeting with Ahmadinejad, the delicate subject of Ahmadinejad’s repeated denials of the Holocaust came up.
The situation is all the more delicate, because Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia are already led by quasi-authoritarian nationalist governments that are boring holes in the EU from within.
This places Sanders, who depends on the support of liberal democrats and young people, in a delicate position.
India now requires one of the most delicate political balancing acts as only a minority of the elected performers are likely to have a recognizable ideology that can be turned into conventional political discipline.
Some 400,000 refugees – many of them Sunni Muslims, including fugitive rebels – have poured over the border from Syria, exacerbating sectarian tensions and threatening to disrupt Lebanon’s delicate social and political balance.
Government stability will remain a delicate balancing act.
This “top-level governance architecture,” as it is known in China, has been essential for coordinating and orchestrating the different supply chains and the overall web of contracts to achieve the delicate balance among individual, family, corporate, social, and national objectives.
To facilitate continued progress, the parties have delayed the more delicate issues – ending the conflict and the question of reparations – while focusing first on halting illegal drug production, an issue on which the two sides’ positions are much closer.
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