For the United States, Israel remains a sort of wild card, one that can endanger the grand but delicate international alliance carefully assembled and maintained over the last five months.

At the same time, Mr. Dinkins's aides said, the Mayor has had to consider his delicate alliance with black groups in Brooklyn, who might resent harsh criticism of Mr. Carson.

A delicate alliance, and little trust on either side.

Partnership itself is a delicate alliance, difficult to maintain even in enterprises demanding much less subtlety, insight and perseverance than rearing a child.

Your mission: safeguard the Starship Enterprise and preserve the delicate alliance between the Federation and Klingon Empire!

Thai and other Asean officials have expressed concern that this shift in tactics could shake the delicate alliance against Hanoi and complicate efforts to draw Vietnamese into talks.

In the new United Provinces of Canada set up in 1841, he formed a delicate alliance with Toronto reformer Robert Baldwin.

I have tried fighting this," Sergeant Adler wrote, "but it is very difficult due to the very delicate alliance between U.S. and the Arab Forces in Saudi Arabia.

In 1934, following the disintegration of Vargas' delicate alliance with labor, Brazil entered "one of the most agitated periods in its political history".

Politically charged issues like school choice and vouchers are creating delicate new alliances.