"a delicate step" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a phrase that could be used to describe a careful, cautious action. For example: "I took a delicate step forward, afraid of what would happen if I made a false move."
After tasting cups are positioned, take each cup pair and quickly flip it: this is a very delicate step since the cups are becoming hot on the outside.
SINCE Fidel Castro gave up power last year, the long standoff between Cuba and the United States has taken on the measured rhythms of a minuet, delicate steps from Havana met with restrained advances from Washington, each side hiding behind a pose of purpose that may mask their true intentions.
Their ontogeny is a complex morphogenetic process which encompasses the delicate step of separation from the tight pseudostratified neuroepithelium.
This is the most delicate step and one that can make or break a club executive as well as a potential manager if it goes wrong.
Step 3: Contact This is the most delicate step and one that can make or break a club executive as well as a potential manager if it goes wrong.
This penchant for hard work was in evidence during a rehearsal in a SoHo loft in December as Ms. Butler plowed through a sequence of delicate steps despite suffering from a very bad cold.
And so it was that sour February night that I took the delicate step into the adult world: realizing that I was too depressed to stay at college was realizing I had not only lost my flock; I had fallen from the air entirely.
To respond, chief executives have begun a delicate two-step intended to answer their critics and still defeat efforts at systemic change.
Speaking at the Oval cricket ground in London at the launch of a project to tackle mental health discrimination in sport, he said: "People are very delicate stepping around it – there's no shame invested in it for me.
Mandy took some delicate steps back.
