Sentence examples for delicate security from inspiring English sources

Both officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the delicate security situation.

It fears that an escalating nuclear threat on the peninsula could upset the region's delicate security balance, with dangerous consequences for itself.

Still, Mr. Ouattara acknowledged the delicate security situation, the looting by gunmen and the need to hold all combatants accountable for human rights abuses, including his own men.

Another person who attended said the admonition was neither routine nor rare, especially on Iran but also on other delicate security issues, like Gaza or Egypt.

'These are delicate security matters which are also politically sensitive, so I am appalled that Mo Mowlam has seen fit to blab on a television chat show.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 — A pair of new reports have delivered scorching judgments about the State Department's performance in overseeing work done by the private companies that the government relies on increasingly in Iraq and Afghanistan to carry out delicate security work and other missions.

The tension between the agencies complicates how the administration handles delicate national security issues, particularly the tracking and capturing of suspected terrorists overseas.

Unfortunately, the Obama administration seems to have adopted the Bush administration's policy of meddling in the legitimate spheres of interest of a deeply concerned Russia and a docile and divided Europe with the risk of disrupting a delicate regional security balance.

"Why was a kook like him picked for a politically delicate, high profile, security headache?" he wrote of himself.

Rio Tinto's negotiations with China over the price of iron ore help establish a global price for sale of that commodity to China, and price talks were at a delicate stage when security officials detained the four employees on July 5. Dropping the espionage charge may help defuse the diplomatic and international furor that has built over the past month, experts say.

Although Army forces occupy vast swaths of desert along the Euphrates, they have tried not to cut off all civilian traffic, trying to preserve what Colonel Grimsley called a delicate balance between security and "letting the local people get on with their lives".