Sentence examples for delicate event from inspiring English sources

The network's unusual public apology and the media's skittish approach to covering the fire suggested that the authorities were struggling with how to deal with a delicate event in the age of cellphone cameras and YouTube.

Today, NATO troops offered to step in to defuse what seemed to be the most delicate event in the conflict so far: evacuating the Albanian rebels from Aracinovo, which is six miles from Skopje, well within shelling range of the city, the airport and the country's only oil refinery.

Homosexual characters are banned from television, gay film festivals cannot advertise, and the police often force lesbian and gay organizations to cancel programs during politically delicate events.

I consider myself a veteran of these delicate events.

— "would be an unconscionable betrayal" Another event had made Germany's reliability an even more delicate issue for its friends.

Actually, democracy's triumph in Russia was the product of a delicate sequence of events which made it possible for a minority movement to gain not only power but an air of inevitability.

We have an expression, 'guante de ceda con mano de hierro'silk'silk glove with an iron fist.' Mr. Abrams is the 'iron fist.' " Nevertheless, he has been doing a delicate dance as events have overtaken his assertions.

There's no doubt that when it comes to giving women's sport a better go, there's been some progress in the Olympic movement, from the times when women were considered "too delicate" for tougher events and distances.

Ray Neufield makes toughness seem delicate and beautiful in "Event Horizon," a wall sculpture made from tire scraps collected along the Long Island Expressway.

Mick Jagger, the group's lead singer, acknowledged as much in a news conference the day before with a comment meant to address two of the most delicate issues surrounding the event, the heavily foreign audience and the restricted song list.

You may still need to use the passive language in the event of delicate writing.