Sentence examples for delicate coalition from inspiring English sources

Mr. Burchfield said he did not want to risk the delicate coalition and alienate shrimpers.

Chancellor Angela Merkel has found herself straddling the divide, caught between her contradictory roles as party leader during a heated regional election campaign and as the head of a delicate coalition government.

Since each amendment affected a different part of the bill and a different group of House members, the effect was to balkanize the entire Shays-Meehan measure and make it likely that defeat of one or more amendments would break apart the bill's delicate coalition of backers.

Giovanni Orsina, a professor of Italian politics at Luiss University in Rome, said one of the most immediate questions was what kind of control Renzi could maintain over his party and his delicate ruling coalition.

But the debate is revealing how delicate that coalition is, and how long and hard a fight it faces.The bill tightens border security, increases the number of visas available to both skilled and unskilled workers and provides a long and testing "path to citizenship" for illegal immigrants already in the country.

At least half the job of a Belgian prime minister is to manage infinitely delicate relations with coalition partners and with other tiers of government.

"And it's a delicate moment for the coalition".

And any institutional wrangling over Europe can only upset the coalition's delicate balance.

While the bill still has the support of most public health organizations, the withdrawal of support by Mr. Robinson's group underscores the delicate nature of the coalition endorsing it.

For the first time, administration officials are acknowledging the delicate nature of their "coalition of the willing" -- the group of some 30 nations that lent their names and limited numbers of troops to the occupying force built mainly of American and British forces.

The ethnic splits are one of many delicate issues for the Western coalition.