"My opinion is that Sears took the actions he did because of mixed motives, as is the case with all humans; but if there was a dominant political impulse moving him, it was a sense that the marriage of realism and idealism in our politics, a delicate union to begin with, was on the rocks.
Well, he was already in a somewhat delicate state to begin with.
The decision to establish a deadline for the cash program for workers and businesses and the turmoil it has produced represent another example of how delicate it is to begin the process of drawing limits around Sept. 11 charity.
The skin on the lips, which is naturally somewhat delicate and flaky to begin with, is especially vulnerable to drying out.
The government used a similar strategy in the spring of 2009 to begin the delicate process of winding down its $45 billion investment in Citigroup.
After months of intense political maneuvering, the Turkish Parliament is about to begin the delicate work of deciding whether to re-elect President Suleyman Demirel.
The Olympic flame crossed through the Delicate Arch at sunrise today to begin the final leg of its journey to Salt Lake City.
The purpose of the operation was to begin the delicate process of tying off shared veins and gradually diverting blood flow so that each boy has his own network of blood vessels to carry blood away from the brain.
As Democrats huddled here to begin the delicate process of replacing Senator Paul Wellstone on the Nov. 5 ballot, associates of Walter F. Mondale, the former vice president, said he was likely to heed the growing pleas from party leaders here and in Washington to join the campaign.
Each is assigned a target from the host country, and is tasked with carrying out conversations that play to the target's interests and hobbies; by the end of the evening, students are expected to have elicited their assets' contact details, which are used to begin a delicate, months-long process of recruitment.
