Because of this, we recognize that a delicate balance must be struck between growth and conservation .

Resolution 1593 (2005) establishes a delicate balance allowing the Court and the Security Council to fulfil their responsibilities in a coordinated manner.

It was to be hoped that the protocol would strike a delicate balance between the rights and obligations of States parties.

As we restructure the Security Council, we should ensure that we retain the delicate balance between the two organs.

It was added that this compromise position reflected a delicate balance between the intended goals to protect third parties and to adopt a commercially practical provision.

It was indicated that the Arrest Conventions provided uniform rules to a number of State parties and represented a delicate balance of various and complex interests.

However, the need to preserve the delicate balance between the rights and obligations of States parties to the Treaty is also crucial.

Our fear was that ad hoc parallel mechanisms could have hurt the Conference and disrupted the delicate balance between the four core issues.

In fact, China s success so far has come from maintaining a balance between government and private sector expansion. Sharply raising the government s already outsized profile in the economy will upset this delicate balance leading to slower growth in the future.

Furthermore, we consider that in the conduct of life sciences there is a need for a delicate balance between freedom of scientific research and adequate protection of human life and dignity.

It's a very delicate question.

Proliferation of the sources of opiate raw materials had the potential to disturb the delicate balance between supply of and demand for opiate raw materials.

The Shannon report was not easily arrived at it was the result of hard negotiations, the common denominator of all the interests concerned representing a delicate balance of concerns for all the parties.

He was a weak and delicate child.

Of course, the balance between consumer sovereignty and paternalism is always delicate. But we could certainly begin to strike a healthier balance than the one we have by giving the public far better information across a range of platforms, so that people could begin to make more informed consumption choices and political decisions.

The text represented a fair and delicate balance between the different concerns of States and, although it did not give complete satisfaction to everyone, it was acceptable to every State because it was the fruit of consensus.

Moreover, as was true in Poland, Burma s opposition leaders must strike a delicate balance satisfy their impatient supporters (many of whom have suffered mightily under the old regime), while offering those still in power the prospect of a worthwhile future.

Human activities, such as environmentally damaging infrastructure development, modification of river flows, deforestation, unsustainable agricultural practices, over fishing, introduction of invasive alien species and release of pollutants, can upset this delicate balance.

They're just so, so delicate.

Still, the situation is delicate.

Indeed, the situation in the region is at a delicate crossroads.

Some States had also begun to place increased emphasis on the nuclear option for the purposes of self defence, which jeopardized the delicate balance between disarmament and non proliferation objectives envisaged by the NPT.

The crisis must also not become an excuse to create new institutional formats that jeopardize the delicate balance between the different EU institutions, a balance that through appropriate adjustments has been proven by the test of time. Of course, the crisis does highlight the need to strengthen the EU s institutions and instruments for common action and coordination.

The revised text should in no way prejudice the results of the negotiations under way in the Sixth Committee or affect the delicate balance achieved on the issue of terrorism at the 2005 World Summit.

This was a massive and, at the same time, very delicate operation.

There was a balance, a five sided balance.

I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.

I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.

Allow me now to take up a very delicate issue, even if reluctantly.

The Committee had certainly discussed at length what was a very delicate issue.

If time the time of political opportunities is a factor here, we should now focus on elaborating further or fine tuning some of its concepts, so as to enable the delicate balance that has been achieved in the report to be maintained and not disturbed.

He creates these fine, delicate images which he then repeats on a massive scale.

But it's a broad and very delicate subject, so I have to limit myself.

And fields and palm trees, with delicate tendrils?

And fields and palm trees, with delicate tendrils?

As if they were delicate eggs, well protected.

As if they were delicate eggs, well protected.

As if they were (delicate) eggs closely guarded.

As if they were (delicate) eggs closely guarded.

The proposed amendments to the Convention contained no explicit reference to the delicate balance established under the NPT and consequently further entrenched the unequal legal regime for nuclear weapon States under the NPT, contrary to their obligation to disarm.

It can pick up very delicate objects like a raw egg, or in this case, a lightbulb.

Furthermore, fallout from relentless regional conflict is destabilizing Lebanon, a country that offers Christians a constitutional guarantee of political representation. Some 400,000 refugees many of them Sunni Muslims, including fugitive rebels have poured over the border from Syria, exacerbating sectarian tensions and threatening to disrupt Lebanon s delicate social and political balance.

Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Keeping the universe very, very smooth at early times is not easy it's a delicate arrangement.