Sentence examples for delicate ground from inspiring English sources

I know I tread on delicate ground.

These days all advertisers tread on delicate ground.

PAGE B1 Advertisers' Balancing Act Advertisers who sound patriotic themes tread on delicate ground.

It also annoyed Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, already on delicate ground in Atkins matters.

At this point a judge interrupted Mr. Bo's speech, apparently aware that Mr. Bo was treading on delicate ground.

But Mr. Kyl was treading on delicate ground for Republicans, who are still grappling with Representative Todd Akin's "legitimate rape" comments.

Footage taken by eyewitnesses, including the one above provided anonymously to Buckrail, showed four people tromping on the delicate grounds of the spring.

Amid a weak German economy and with close ties to the government and other domestic companies, Allianz will be treading on delicate political ground.

It treads a delicate middle ground between the utter cartoonishness of the previous decade's low-grade Rambo-spawned fare and the joyless solemnity of today's Gerard Butlerampagesmpages.

During the first quarter of the 18th century, fashion favoured lighter laces, and point de France was replaced by Alençon lace, which is characterized by a delicate meshwork ground and design motifs each surrounded by a raised rim (cordonnet) worked by buttonholing over thread and decorated by a series of tiny loops (picots), their size standardized by being worked over the tip of a horse hair.

The Greenpeace sign left marks on the delicate desert ground that could remain for decades, experts said.