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Australia's trying to tread a tightrope between our various trading interests and our strategic alliances.

Dennis Woodward

In the mental-health field, it's sort of walking a tightrope. You can't treat someone by simply locking them up. It can be tough, but we try to minimize the risk as best we can and still provide treatment.

Don Abel

The best poker players walk a tightrope between their business sense and their passion.

Michael Craig

I want in and out. I don't even want to see me there. The quicker the better. I don't like that high stress, walk-the-tightrope stuff.

B.j. Ryan

We try to balance the collection. The staff and I walk a tightrope, and there are occasional contests.

Herb Landau

There will be jugglers, acrobats, tightrope walkers, contortionists, fire dancers and many other types of performers. There is even a seven-member singing a cappella group that performs along with the performers.

Thom Cooper

There's an appreciation, not unlike that for dancers or tightrope walkers, of the body undergoing tests and coming through them by courage and technique; a desire for "clean" results.

Richard Gilman

It's just another instance where the cultural wars are going to be fought out in our classrooms. Teachers are going to feel themselves pressured to teach Bible almost like Sunday school and that's where the tightrope walking is going to come into it.

Tim Callahan

The question is, How much do we really want to improve I-70 - and do we want to improve it so much that it changes the character of our communities? That's the tightrope.

Gary Severson

We are advocating for people to return, but we are walking a tightrope. We're concerned for people's safety.

Sakura Kone

We walk a tightrope of protecting children and protecting parents from undue government intervention in their lives.

Craig Brooks

The electorate gets to see these guys on a tightrope. That's a good test because, as president, you're always under pressure.

Alan Schroeder

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Karl Wallenda

[The world may end up] under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.

Andrei A. Gromyko

The best poker players walk a tightrope between their business sense and their passion. As professionals, they seek out the most profitable opportunities and control as many factors as possible to create a positive result. As gamblers, however, they want the risk and excitement of having something important on the line with the outcome in the balance.

Michael Craig

Sony's recent digital rights management (DRM) fiasco highlighted the tightrope content producers employing DRM technologies are currently walking. Authors, artists and publishers now have the technological tools to better protect their digital creations but if they want consumers to pay for their digital work, they must find the right balance between copyright protection and customer expectations.

Ben Macklin

Most can't transition their technologies over too quickly because it adversely affects their [proprietary software] revenues. But if more money is being derived from open source, then they need to be seen as big supporters of it. It is a tightrope they have to walk.

Navin Nagiah