The Americans have invested millions in the Rule of Law complex, creating a safe place to hold politically delicate trials.
The judge's decision drew attention to the sometimes delicate task that trial lawyers have of representing their clients zealously while staying within the bounds of proper behavior.
The charge rests largely on the villa, which the Chinese authorities allege was bought by Mr. Xu and given to the Bo family, according to the three people with knowledge of the case, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the delicate politics of the trial.
Still, the trial remains a delicate subject in West Memphis and its county, Crittenden.
For the Iraqi government, the trial is particularly delicate because during the period in question, the government relied on support from the anti-American cleric Moktada al-Sadr, whose Mahdi Army militia was involved in death squad operations.
At a meeting with the military high command last year in the Defense Ministry, Gen. Ricardo Izurieta, the chief of the army, told Mr. Lagos that he did not want his successor to have to deal with the politically delicate situation of a Pinochet trial.
The design of a clinical trial is a delicate decision process, as each of the decisions that are taken in this process influences the eventual result of the clinical trial.
The trial comes at a delicate moment in relations between Iran and the United States.
It will be relentless, fraught with difficulty and, for the reasons I have suggested, damaging to that delicate and subtle relationship between advocate and trial judge.
Even without participating in the clinical trial, the arrangement has been a delicate balancing act for Dr. Hammond.
Ismat Chughtai's "Lihaf" (The Quilt), was the subject of an obscenity trial in the 1940s, for her delicate evocation of the relationship between two women.
