"a tricky environment" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation where it is difficult to make decisions or act accordingly. For example: "The political climate in this country is a tricky environment to navigate."
It could make for a tricky environment in which to nurture Europe's fledgling currency.
Correction Reprints Related items Investment banks: Living in leaner timesAug 2nd 2001Now he will need to open doors and pull deals for Lazard in a tricky environment.
Some analysts suggest that Telekom could steal a march on them if it can quickly upgrade its basic copper network using digital subscriber-line technology, which allows voice and multimedia services to flow together over old wires.Interest remains high because broadband media is likely to be lucrative, even in such a tricky environment.
It wasn't her first deployment, and Mason knew that the erratic work and sleep schedules on her ship, combined with the monotony and boredom that can warp time, would make for a tricky environment in which to take a contraceptive pill at the same time every day.
As Conrad explains, mobile is a trickier environment to test and evolve, especially on Android because you aren't developing for one device but hundreds of different mobile handsets.
We were responsible for informing and connecting everyone in a very tricky environment.
This paradox, and the explanatory factors cited above, create an increasingly tricky environment for investors in consumer stocks.
But with a tricky global environment, including tough competition from Japanese rivals such as Toyota Motor, which in April overtook General Motors as the top-selling car company in the world, and growing domestic demand for greener cars, Ford is being forced to reassess its priorities.
Then, a relatively large sample will need to be collected in the tricky environment of microgravity.
We can't answer that question, but we can offer up individuals likely to make the right calls in this tricky environment: the defense and aerospace analysts winning awards in our annual analyst survey, published this week on Forbes.com.
