Sentence examples for delicate mission from inspiring English sources

He has been entrusted by Stephen Harper, Canada's newly elected Conservative prime minister, with a delicate mission.

It's a delicate mission: the palm oil industry is destroying animal habitats, but has raised the standard of living dramatically in a few decades.

Mr. Ulasewicz, who retired from the New York City force in 1969, had friends in the Nixon Administration, and so he was recruited for a delicate mission.

Operational information — like details of a current covert action — is rarely posted, usually because supervisors fear that a leak could jeopardize a delicate mission.

Ms. Haley writes credible dialogue for her younger characters — a delicate mission often bungled — but this material ill suits the stage.

That delicate mission is generally accomplished here, even if Ms. Turner's reflective approach tends to shine a stronger light on the play's melancholy than on its daffy humor.

As commander of a special forces battalion who also received training at Fort Benning, Ga., the colonel leads some of the army's more delicate missions in Gaza.

The next day, Mr Abe will attempt the same with South Korea, stopping off in Seoul to meet President Roh Moo-hyun.North Korea's defiance makes these delicate missions both more difficult and more necessary.

He had also undertaken a series of delicate missions to the Middle East, signing the ill-fated Soviet-Egyptian treaty in Cairo in 1971 and a similar pact with Somalia in 1974.

But above all, Mr. Safire was impressed by Mr. Yaqub Khan's diplomatic skills, saying he had been dispatched by his country on delicate missions, including when Pakistan sought to reassure Washington that a bloodless military coup by Gen. Pervez Musharraf against an elected but incapable government was both necessary and temporary.

But it takes years to train new case officers, let alone to develop seasoned operatives capable of delicate missions in global hot spots.