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Meanings of delicate balance in English

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Usage of delicate balance in English
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He must strike a delicate balance between encouraging reform and threatening action.
The Guardian
2
A delicate balance in AbetaPP processing seems to determine its functional consequences.
Pubmed
3
Decaying vegetable matter can upset the delicate balance of the watery ecosystem.
The Irish Times
4
It's not only the immune system that must maintain a delicate balance.
The new yorker
5
It requires a delicate balance between what often feels like polar opposites.
Feminist dot com
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It's a delicate balance that no one has fully figured out yet.
Wired
7
We cannot have a pre-born contaminate the delicate balance of Marie's education.
Paul of dune
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It's a delicate balance and we want to evacuate the hostages safely.
The South African
9
Neurogenesis relies on a delicate balance between progenitor maintenance and neuronal production.
Pubmed
10
Its Senate leadership victory underlines the delicate balance of power in the legislature.
Reuters
11
Plant growth and development are controlled by a delicate balance of hormonal cues.
Pubmed
12
They needed books that struck a delicate balance between readers and chapter books.
From cover to cover: evaluating and reviewing children's books
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A delicate balance between positive and negative signals regulates NK cell effector function.
Pubmed
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Sir, -There is a delicate balance between funding fundamental and applied science.
The Irish Times
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An off comment could upset what will be a delicate balance.
The South African
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You're upsetting a delicate balance of corruption that has existed here for centuries.
The Hyperion Cantos
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South Africa
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Ireland
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United States of America
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