Sentences with phrase «of tightrope walking»

According to a website dedicated to tightrope walker Jean François Gravelet, the Greeks were so enamored of tightrope walking that they created a special prize, «The Thaumatron,» which could be won by tightrope walkers and «anyone who shows people something amazing, out of...

According to a website dedicated to tightrope walker Jean François Gravelet, the Greeks were so enamored of tightrope walking that they created a special prize, «The Thaumatron,» which could be won by tightrope walkers and «anyone who shows people something amazing, out of the ordinary.»

Not that I think they'd ever go there, but it'll still be a bit of a tightrope walk for a PG company.

Like its aerialist hero, this saga of the tightrope walk between the Twin Towers overcomes many potential disasters on its way to triumph

Not exact matches

Pretty much from his first statements as governor in 2013 — that's about $ 100,000 ago in real estate appreciation terms — through to last week when the bank released its latest financial system review, Poloz has walked a tightrope between admitting that elevated house prices and debt levels pose a risk to the economy, and assuring Canadians that the likelihood of a crash is actually pretty low.

Kenny has to «walk a tightrope,» said Henry Farrell, a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University.

Questioners can benefit from knowing they need to walk a tightrope between over-analysis and gathering enough information to be personally convinced of the merits of a particular new habit.

But with the majority of millennials skewing further left, while Republicans gained control of Congress and the White House, Smith — labeled «a de facto ambassador for the technology industry at large» by The New York Times — needed a new way to walk the tightrope.

Part of the problem is that Chinese policy - makers are already walking a tightrope.

Geoff Blaber, vice president of research and market analysis firm CCS Insight, says that by leading off the conference with a focus on security and privacy, but pledging the only way to overcome those challenges is to continue to build services, Zuckerberg successfully «walked the tightrope.»

More funding will bring more scrutiny, and Patreon will have the tough job of walking the free - speech - without - filth tightrope in codifying what exactly is allowed and enforcing those rules.

Clinton has walked a tightrope of appealing to disillusioned Democrats while attempting to court moderates unhappy with the bombastic Trump.

Look at the balancing act at Lee, as CEO Mary Junck and CFO Carl Schmidt have walked tightrope after tightrope of restructuring, in an amazing attempt to avoid falling into the net of bankruptcy.

teachers have to walk a very thin tightrope of classroom management because if one kid even hints at a teacher molesting, improper touching, saying or doing something wrong towards that child, the teacher is automatically put on suspension and kids know this and use this to their advantage.

We are continuously walking the tightrope of trying to help him make good choices and trying to keep him safe and alive.

Harrington calls his act «walking a tightrope between the sectarian irrelevance of the visionary whose vision is not connected with anything that's going on in this society, and the pragmatic irrelevance of those who so perfectly adapt to the daily struggle that they lose sight of the larger struggle.»

The religious socialist who has joined Harrington's «constituency of hope» has his or her own tightrope to walk.

It is difficult to keep from wondering whether Ting, Wenzao and other Protestant leaders are walking a tightrope between the still religiously skeptical communist government and the fundamentalists both in the underground church and among intrusive foreign Christian observers who deeply resent any hint of accommodation with Chinese communism.

The King of the Wire puts his faith in the King of Kings.Just before Nik Wallenda steps onto the wire tonight in an attempt to become the first person to walk a tightrope across the mouth of the Horseshoe Falls, he'll form a circle with a dozen close friends and members of his close - knit Christian family and they'll say a prayer to Jesus Christ.The cross Wallenda wears around his neck every time he walks on a wire isn't just a fashion statement, it's a message about the religious beliefs the American performer holds close to his heart.

Ran around like a headless chicken, but that was his downfall — an early yellow card meant that he was walking a tightrope for the rest of the game.

But Ramirez could hit enough to make up the difference and then some, and there's always a tightrope to walk with shortstops on the other side of 35.

Warming up in the bullpen, he was not even conscious of the drizzle or the cold or the young boy, his arms outspread like wings, who was tightrope - walking across the top of the outfield fence.

Francis Coquelin has looked ropey in his last couple of games, and in a big match like this he can't afford to be walking a tightrope when it comes to bookings.

Costa, who is known to have a combustible personality and has walked the disciplinary tightrope for the Blues in a number of games so far this season, has scored five goals for Chelsea in the Premier League in their opening six games.

It's not just the amount of information Brecher processes that qualifies her as a supertasker, it's the emotional tightrope she successfully walks while doing so.

«I try to walk the tightrope between being truthful and honest about the threat to the public but, on the other hand, to say we are doing everything possible to combat it and to try to keep our lifestyle as near as possible to the British way of life,» Mr Reid said.

New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, the youngest woman in Congress, is walking a tightrope because of her support for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

First, they are political, and can therefore protect, warn and be a safety net for a Minister walking the tightrope of Ministerial office.

This summer, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed off on allowing world - renowned daredevil Nik Wallenda to perform a tightrope walk over the falls, an event that would almost surely attract tens of thousands of people and potentially provide an economic boost to the area.

David Cameron walked a delicate diplomatic tightrope today, after he issued guarded but unprecedented criticism of the way Algeria is handling the hostage crisis in its territory.

The elected representatives have to walk a tightrope taking decisions so as to satisfy the maximum number of people in their constituencies.

Welfare reform has been on of the areas that the Lib Dems have found particularly hard in in Government, trying to walk the tightrope between economic credibility in reducing spending and social justice.

The was sun shining and sea lions were frolicking as Niagara County business professionals came together to help support Nik Wallenda's upcoming tightrope walk over Niagara Falls at the Aquarium of Niagara on Wednesday, June 12, 2012.

Damian Green MP, the former Conservative Home Office minister and leading Europhile, said that Mr Grayling had walked the «tightrope of overtly breaking» the rules Prime Minister David Cameron had set down last week about what ministers could and could not say ahead of the referendum.

Members of the U.S. Congress up for re-election this year are walking a tightrope with voters.

«A lot of Bronx legislators are really trying to figure out how to walk the tightrope so they don't piss off Cuomo, Diaz, or de Blasio,» said Kappstatter.

These days I feel as though I'm walking on a tightrope, with a crowd of ravenous faux robotic nerds on one side and a gaggle of sentimental antiquarians on the other.

The nature of our future online lives will depend on answering this question, on how we walk the tightrope between total security and innovation - friendly openness.

Lab heads with ties to companies need to carefully walk a tightrope to balance the often - opposing interests of academia and industry.

Secretaries of state have to walk tightropes when their highly distinguished senior advisers have spoken out of turn.

Farmers are walking a tightrope between reaping the benefits of genetically modified crops and getting it wrong and losing all their advantages.

«It is like tightrope - walking without a net,» says Thomas Glynn, director of cancer science and trends at the American Cancer Society.

Think of all the fun we'd have dressing up and walking the tightrope!

like so many of your looks, you can read it as a «costume» but it is also just a great, flattering, on - point look - quite a tightrope to walk there:) it was so thoughtful of you to stop by my blog - don't worry, posts are percolating and i've started taking pics of me looks again, almost without thinking about it (habit).

Stephen Fry manages to walk the tightrope of being clever and interesting while also reasonably lucid and unflustered after thirty seconds of idle chatter in an elevator, and thus we shall place him somewhere in the realms of nerd - lite.

Vikki Ziegler, 42, star of Bravo's Untying the Knot, knows the fraught tightrope walk that is dating after divorce all too well.

Co - writer / director Robert Zemeckis presents the story of Philippe Petit, who walked a tightrope across the 130 - foot gap between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974, as a romantic fable.

Walking a tightrope between deference and disrespect, James Franco has made his most ambitious work to date with «The Disaster Artist», a seriocomic exploration inside the mind of writer - director - cultural sensation Tommy Wiseau.

Director Nichols walks a tightrope between giving us a dark, Gothic tale of misunderstood prophecy and a sobering lesson on the state of mental health care in rural America.

The Post takes up all the current crises head on, as to what comprises national security, the dangers of conflating the government with the nation, the role of the press and, even the tightrope journalists walk in their friendships with powers - that - be.