Sentences with phrase «tightrope in»

From «Mark Evison: «We are walking a tightrope in Afghanistan»» (Telegraph):

Nik Wallenda walks a tightrope in the rain during a training session for his upcoming stunt in Niagara Falls, N.Y. Gary Wiepert / AP hide caption

Nintendo walked an unbelievable tightrope in recognizing the franchise's core values and dropping them into a new (and very modern) context, creating an experience both nostalgic and fresh.

My approach is not a stock - picking circus in which we simply advocate going out on a tightrope in search of high - risk growth stocks.

While many people simply take them for granted, others walk a daily tightrope in managing them, where one slip could suddenly send their credit situation tumbling.

As Newtown, Conn., administrators are learning, school leaders walk a delicate tightrope in helping their schools find «a new normal» in the wake of a tragedy.

Depending on the property, a movie studio must balance ever so perilously on a line that can waver about as if suspended like a tightrope in midair.

The film's trailer hints that film will be a dark satire, lush period film and a complex character study of Zama's paranoia - fueled descent, all mixed up into one, which is what is to be expected of the Argentinian director who has perfected walking a tightrope in terms of tone and genre in her not - always - easy to categorize body of work.

Turner may face a tightrope in trying to benefit from the scandal that led to Weiner's resignation last month.

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.

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.

The key elements of the ceremony — the host's tightrope act, the lengthy, some might say self - congratulatory, running time and the glamorously outfitted stars in the audience — are going to be the same as they ever were.

The shifts in Airbnb's messaging show the tightrope the company is walking as it tries to expand its business in a tricky regulatory environment.

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.

But you don't have to walk a tightrope, climb Mount Everest or cure polio to employ this mindset in your own life.

In the end, OPEC and Russia are walking a tightrope.

In his view the older model is far better, offering us the saint as spiritual tightrope walker, ascetic star, eccentric.

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.»

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.

In 2015, he walked the longest tightrope ever at the Wisconsin State Fair, and in 2012, he walked across Niagara FallIn 2015, he walked the longest tightrope ever at the Wisconsin State Fair, and in 2012, he walked across Niagara Fallin 2012, he walked across Niagara Falls.

If, in heaven, I decided I want to learn to become a tightrope walker, and I become so good I decide to tightrope across the heavenly version of Niagara Falls, what happens if I make a mistake and I fall?

We've been walking the high tightrope thinking we've been trusting The All in All.

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.

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.

Having been booked in the first half and waking a tightrope, Coquelin did make some good tackles in the second period before a final foul led to Arsene Wenger understandably withdrawing him.

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.

Dyster says Wallenda owes the city $ 25,000 in emergency services and other infrastructure requirements paid out by the city for Wallenda's tightrope walk across Niagara Falls in June.

But in today's contentious geostrategic climate, such a «neutral» policy means precariously walking on a tightrope bedeviled by pitfalls and competing interests.

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

Bridge construction firm Harrison & Burrowes, which worked on the Walkway over the Hudson and is based in Glenmont, also is a partner, as is O'Connell Electric, an upstate New York company that installs cable, including pulling one for tightrope walker Nik Wallenda across Niagara Falls, Madison said.

[Spin Cycle] Capitalizing Callaghan Shifts Into Overdrive [Newsday] Hevesi's Security Detail Twice As Large As Spitzer's [AP] Alan Overdrive [NYP] Aide's «Squad» Car Ride [NYDN] Hevesi Smooches Up Pol Pal [NYP] Thanks to Hevesi, Democrats Face Political Tightrope [NYS] Pataki Picks Ex-Prosecutor to Weigh In on Hevesi Case [NYT] Hevesi: I'd Quit Over Ax [NYP]

Villano describes a complex, multi-layered family drama and conflicting allegiances in a newly published memoir: «Tightrope: Balancing a Life Between Mario Cuomo and My Brother» (Heliotrope Books, $ 16.50).

It would have been a tightrope walk that would require LBJ like skill to reach a bipartisan 50 % votes in the house.

It's a bit of a tightrope act for Democrats to claim «in with the new» as the saying goes, without the part that cries: «out with the old.»

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.

For two generations, the name Walsh has been synonymous with Republican politics in Syracuse, now Ben Wlash, son of ex-GOP Rep. Jim Walsh, is waking a political tightrope by running for mayor of the city as an independent.

In some areas where Mr. Trump remains popular, Republican hopefuls must walk a tightrope between expressing support for him and distancing themselves from a candidate who may become toxic to the moderates and independents they need to win.

To the tightrope walker the wire is essentially one - dimensional, a line pointing in one direction.

In frank and poignant prose, Elsayed recounts his tightrope walk through the U.S. immigration system and his improbable ascent into the academic stratosphere before crashing and burning.

In a statement published online in Pediatrics, the organization walked a tightrope between strongly discouraging recreational marijuana use among teenagers while acknowledging that medical applications, including in young children, have grown more popular and that more research is needed to better understand when and how the drug might helIn a statement published online in Pediatrics, the organization walked a tightrope between strongly discouraging recreational marijuana use among teenagers while acknowledging that medical applications, including in young children, have grown more popular and that more research is needed to better understand when and how the drug might helin Pediatrics, the organization walked a tightrope between strongly discouraging recreational marijuana use among teenagers while acknowledging that medical applications, including in young children, have grown more popular and that more research is needed to better understand when and how the drug might helin young children, have grown more popular and that more research is needed to better understand when and how the drug might help.

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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.

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.

Petit begins by explaining his antecedents as a little French boy who sneaked into a provincial circus and was awed by the tightrope walker, as a some - time student of a high - wire master known as Papa Rudy and as a street performer in Paris in the 1970s.

It's fun to think of these two young men using digital technology to do every crazy little thing they ever dreamed of: Steve sends potato chips arcing in a continuous stream from the bag into his mouth; Andrew becomes a champion juggler and tightrope walker at a school talent show.

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.