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But the stakes are especially high in Nigeria, where Yar’Adua embodies the country’s delicate political balance.
In fact, there are five jobs up for grabs, so a complex but secretive discussion is being conducted between Europe’s chancelleries over who might do what without disturbing the delicate balances between political families or between large and small states.
The period immediately following a conflict is a delicate one.
“We have involved ourselves in a colossal muddle,” he warned, “having blundered in the control of a delicate machine, the working of which we do not understand.”
Urlanis’s argument – that men, not women, are the more delicate creatures – is even more relevant now, with family life decaying, half of marriages ending in divorce, and the number of fatherless children rising to record levels.
These are delicate issues of conceptual analysis.
These are delicate issues, given Thailand’s raw and rabid polarization between those with vested interests in the old order and those intent on putting an end to what they claim are neo-feudalistic privileges and entitlements.
To be sure, as delicate as the political order is in Myanmar, there is no gridlock that obviates an agenda for progress in achieving peace.
Capitalism involves a delicate problem of agency and trust; giving managers the green light for entrepreneurship is not enough to make certain that the interests of investors are safeguarded; nor is it enough for stock markets to price securities realistically.
The most delicate issues are those raised by the Investment Services Directive, on which only a majority of member states have reached a common position.
Representatives of 16 countries--Austria, Ireland, Portugal, the three Scandinavian countries, and the ten states that will join the EU in May 2004--submitted a proposal, in the form of a declaration, that calls for preserving the EU's current delicate institutional balance.
In order to achieve genuine stability, China’s leaders must strike a delicate balance between tiao tiao control and kuai kuai autonomy.
Now the army is faced with the delicate and arduous task of steering the country back onto a path toward elections and a rapid return to democratic rule.
These are, indeed, delicate and changing times for the United States, especially at a time when Americans expect their president to be the “emoter” in chief.
Macri’s administration inherits a delicate economy.
Moreover, it exacerbated tensions within Pakistani society, destabilizing the country’s commercial capital, Karachi, by bringing in large numbers of Pashtun refugees who, having settled in the city, disturbed its delicate ethnic balance.
Second, the European Central Bank needs to pivot from financial-crisis prevention – an area where it has performed impressively – to striking the delicate balance of supporting growth (and countering currency over-appreciation) without fueling excessive risk taking.
The Pig, the Wolf, and the DragonHONG KONG – Political mayhem has broken out in Hong Kong, and has caught China’s government, already in the midst of a delicate political transition of its own, completely unprepared.
Legitimacy is a delicate, yet utterly important feature of stable democratic politics.
But today we have involved ourselves in a colossal muddle, having blundered in the control of a delicate machine, the working of which we do not understand.
It is true that democracies always find it difficult to balance their commitment to human rights with their commitment to free speech: it is a delicate path to tread, and there is no easy answer on a legal and constitutional level.
But the returns that make US stock markets so attractive reflect a delicate political balance.
So a transition remains to be managed, and recent foreign-exchange turmoil in several emerging countries indicates that it is bound to be a delicate one.
But achieving this would be a difficult and delicate task.
If voters in decaying French villages and small-town America succumb to despair and lose hope in the market economy, they will be vulnerable to the siren song of ethnic nationalism or full-bore socialism, either of which would destroy the delicate balance between markets and the state.
Australia, meanwhile, must engage in a delicate balancing act.
Today, the West must do both simultaneously – a complex and delicate task that may give rise to misunderstandings.
And the US has been far more successful than Europe in achieving the delicate balance between empowering individual states and maintaining a sense of national unity.
A sudden stop to inflows last year shattered the system’s foundations, spurring widespread protests and shaking Lebanon’s delicate peace.
In particular, they have to strike a delicate balance not only between protecting their citizens’ lives and restarting the economy, but also between liberty and security.
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