The phrase "a delicate issue that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a sensitive or complex topic that requires careful consideration.
Example: "The negotiations surrounding the treaty are a delicate issue that must be handled with care to avoid misunderstandings."
Alternatives: "a sensitive matter that" or "a tricky situation that".
Plunging headfirst into a delicate issue that has long bedeviled New York State and Long Island's Indian tribes, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg criticized Gov. David A. Paterson on Monday for not enforcing cigarette tax laws, which the mayor estimated had deprived the city of up to $195 million a year in revenue.
Thomas S. Blanton, the director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University, said he agreed with the Iraq Memory Foundation that access to documents like Baathist archive is a delicate issue that needs to be addressed with extreme care.
In addition, rail privatisation is still such a delicate issue that politicians are willing to throw money at it to avoid embarrassment.
A child who is experiencing mental health discrimination is such a delicate issue that approaching it clumsily or ignoring it all together can intensify the problem.
This is a delicate issue that no party will really be able to solve.
In the workplace, how many times do you have to send an e-mail, write a letter, or make a telephone call that deals with a controversial or delicate issue that needs to be approached in just the right way?
Race here is a complex, ubiquitous, delicate issue that arouses both passion and boredom for everyone.
WASHINGTON, April 20 — President Bush and China's president, Hu Jintao, pledged to cooperate more closely on fighting nuclear proliferation and reducing trade imbalances on Thursday, but broke no new ground on the most delicate issues that divide the two nations.
Yossi Elituv, editor of the Orthodox family magazine Mishpacha and co-author of a book about the life and works of Rabbi Yosef, said that the rabbi's greatness in interpreting religious law was based on his chronicling of rulings of the last 200 years and the boldness with which he issued his own, often lenient rulings, sometimes on delicate issues that other rabbis dared not approach.
(RNS) Of all the delicate issues that Pope Francis will face when he makes his first visit to the U.S. this month, none may pose as many risks to his enduring popular appeal as the question of the Catholic Church's approach to gays and lesbians.
St. John's Pride tried to take a stance on a delicate issue in a way that was sensitive to their most marginalized members but failed so spectacularly that one of their most prominent members is burning their flag on YouTube.
