Sentence examples for delicate events from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

— "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.

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.

It is one of the first in a delicate sequence of international events and summits over the next two years, concluding with a major conference in Paris, in December 2015.

"The climate is very delicate after the dramatic events that took place in Paris, and for that reason there's a great sense of responsibility on everyone's part," he said.

The lungs are delicate organs and the events which lead to a donor's death can also damage the lungs.

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