There is a carefully maintained sectarian balance in Lebanon that some fear could be disrupted by large new refugee communities.
When their orbits finally intersect, a carefully maintained wall tumbles down and dramatic consequences ensue.
"There will be a carefully maintained balance between fundamental research and technology development," McCarthy adds.
She is a monster from Dickens or Victorian gothic, her malevolence disguised beneath a carefully maintained ordinariness.
But the exalted, rarefied atmosphere is to some extent a carefully maintained illusion, an aspect of the show.
The stability of the postwar era depended, Best suggests, on a carefully maintained balance between coherence and ambiguity.
Yet the congressional delegation reflects a carefully maintained 8-3 Republican majority that was created in the Republican wave of 2010.
Growing potatoes as I do, by hand, organically, in a small, carefully maintained plot, does not pay, nor will it ever.
The soundtrack, by Cristobal Tapia de Veer, proves as crucial an adornment as his work on Utopia, applying shards of colour, clarity and mystery to housebound sequences that might otherwise feel weighed down by the carefully maintained suburban drabness.
There is a Web site, informationforfamilies.org, which is carefully maintained by a relative, although it is a minor part of the operation.
