The phrase "a delicate compromise" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an agreement that requires careful negotiation and consideration of various factors or interests.
Example: "After hours of discussion, we finally reached a delicate compromise that satisfied both parties."
Alternatives: "a fragile agreement" or "a subtle balance".
The situation of the forest dweller was always a delicate compromise that was often omitted or rejected in practical life.
It leaves in place a delicate compromise on detainee policy from last year that some critics believe authorizes the indefinite detention of terrorism suspects apprehended on U.S. soil.
But in a delicate compromise worked out over weeks of negotiations, the bill does not impose any specific measurements of border enforcement results that, if they were not met, would stop the immigrants from proceeding toward citizenship.
The 14,000 U.S. troops that landed in Beirut allowed the Lebanese president to restore order on the basis of a delicate compromise among radical, Muslim, and Christian factions.
For all the blather to the contrary, this really was a delicate compromise - one that would likely have gotten better as it went to the House, and one that will be hard to reproduce in the future.
The voluntary guidelines, to be announced Tuesday, are a result of a delicate compromise between leading banks and law enforcement officials, whose sharp disagreements in recent weeks nearly derailed the administration's final anti-money-laundering initiative.
For record companies like RCA Records, it's a situation that requires delicate compromise, says Mr Cross.
The Times, particularly miffed because of the loss of federal health subsidies to its home state, argued that the president should not pick apart a tax bill representing weeks of delicate compromise in Congress.
Lebanon is a fragile multi-confessional democracy whose politics relies on delicate compromise between its various faith communities: Sunni, Shiite and Christian and Druze.
And now the delicate compromise, having been reached, is under threat.
New York lawmakers also say that they have been effective at stopping some of the most radical elements of the Republican agenda and that they have also gotten Republicans to make good on some of their own initiatives, sometimes through delicate compromise, other times through intense public pressure.
