Sentence examples for at a touchy from inspiring English sources

Mr. Wilson's gloomy assessment of the pension fund, the third-largest among all the states, comes at a touchy time for Mr. DiNapoli and for state financial officials across the country.

" This can be a touchy area.

It was a little touchy situation".

For Russell Coutts, the long sea journey that has brought him fame, fortune, Olympic gold -- and now, for the second time, the America's Cup -- began at the helm of a touchy little P-class dinghy off the windswept coast of Dunedin on New Zealand's rugged South Island.

The conversation at the meeting turned to a touchy subject, the identity of key agents inside Iran.

The very large suitor was accepted by her father and her three athletic brothers, and after a touchy tour at Guantanamo in Cuba, he went off to war in 1967.

Precisely how to raise awareness about a touchy subject is not clear, but some at least are trying.

The question of why so many Jews have been so good at making money is a touchy one.

According to sophomore Charlie Parkhurst, another political science major at UCLA, politics is a touchy topic on campus right now.

But strengthening exports to the United States — up 5.5 percent in September compared with the same month a year ago — could also increase trade frictions at a politically touchy time for both countries.

Executive pay is a touchy subject at Aviva after its former chief executive Andrew Moss was forced out during the shareholder spring of 2012.