Sentence examples for delicate assignments from inspiring English sources

The security of the installations themselves is adequate, the report says, although it questions whether contractors should take over delicate assignments like bomb disposal and aerial surveillance.

By 1967, a painful back ailment forced Mr. Vance back into civilian life, but he was repeatedly called back for delicate assignments.

One of Sisco's most delicate assignments was in July 1974, when an attempted coup against President Makarios of Cyprus provoked an immediate Turkish invasion.

More recently, he managed to win praise on delicate assignments like determining how much the Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund should pay out — or what is an appropriate salary for an executive at a financial institution that the government propped up with taxpayer funds.

I felt he did an extraordinary job with a delicate assignment.

Their inheritance, then, is a well-paying but very strange, very delicate assignment.

"'I felt he did an extraordinary job with a delicate assignment," Mr. Bush said.

No doubt he feels lucky to have been chosen for this delicate assignment cloaked in secrecy, his first mission.

In political terms, this represented a delicate assignment for the Prime Minister, given that she will soon no longer be part of the E.U. club.

His most delicate assignment, in 2009, entailed negotiating the controversial industry deals that led to the passage of Obama's health-care law, including favorable provisions for the pharmaceutical industry.

They said they had spent seven months on a delicate assignment that came in the midst of the Mayor's re-election campaign and arose from one of the worst allegations of police brutality in recent memory: the beating and torture of Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant, in a Brooklyn precinct station house last summer.