To deploy its director in delicate foreign diplomacy requires explanation.

He said yesterday that "tremendously delicate diplomacy" was required.

With other countries, too, much delicate diplomacy awaits the president.

The ascendancy of e-mail has opened a new arena to the delicate diplomacy of relationships.

Starting in 1999, they began training volunteers in the delicate diplomacy of intervention between poor people and their pets.

Many museum shows require delicate international diplomacy, but this one was unusually loaded with political meaning.

It was one of those instances where even the most delicate diplomacy might cause offense.

That may be accurate, but it is not the sort of thing diplomats say publicly when their countries are engaged in delicate diplomacy.

The developers' lobbying effort was also a mission of delicate diplomacy.

Mr. Christopher said weeks of delicate diplomacy lay ahead.