delicate balance

collocation in English

meanings of delicateand balance

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delicate
adjective
uk /ˈdel.ɪ.kət/ us /ˈdel.ə.kət/
needing careful treatment, especially because ...
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balance
noun
uk /ˈbæl.əns/ us /ˈbæl.əns/
the ability to remain standing, especially because your weight is equally distributed ...
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Examples of delicate balance

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We suggest that normal neural and cognitive development requires a delicatebalance between specialization and integration.
The text thus manifests a delicatebalance between conflicting concerns.
As a matter of public policy, a delicatebalance was sought between security and liability as these alternately freed and constrained behavior.
Nearly 250 years ago, the physiocrats' tableau economique portrayed an economy in delicatebalance as expenditures and products coursed through the system.
Thus, we can strike a delicatebalance between nonlinearity and dispersion for a certain range of parameters to obtain a soliton solution given by (23).
Finite time blow-up involves a delicatebalance between the spatial and temporal derivatives and the reaction terms driving the blow-up.
However, it is in adjudicating a delicatebalance between seemingly opposed individual rights and social welfare, that the philosophical challenge is at its greatest.
This seems to involve a very delicatebalance between too much and too little resource demand.
Clearly, such delicatebalance of interactions (ion-peptide versus peptide-peptide) is imperfectly represented by current non-polarizable force fields.
The potential subject's capacity to give consent to participate in research is key to the delicatebalance between these two competing concerns.
These leukocytes are thought to sustain the delicatebalance between protecting the developing embryo/fetus and tolerating its hemiallogeneic tissues.
A delicatebalance is required among various parameters in order to satisfy these conflicting requirements simultaneously.
This process of bone resorption followed by formation is a delicatebalance between two cell types, the osteoclast and the osteoblast.
However, there is a delicatebalance between reducing computational complexity and preserving meaningful variance in the data.
Their previous calculations were shown to have worked, and simple self-interest means they should continue to operate on the basis of the same delicatebalance.
The popular writings on vision were directed to several different audiences, and, as such, manifest a delicatebalance between conflicting agendas.
It is a complex, multilayered piece of writing, directed to several audiences, manifesting a delicatebalance between conflicting agendas.
To fashion a new persona requires a delicatebalance between old and new cultural forms.
In this way the delicatebalance between humanistic and scientific care, a complex good at best, is thrown away.
Increase in ellipticity results in large oscillatory self-focusing0 defocusing behavior which emanates disturbed delicatebalance between nonlinear term and diffraction term.
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