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Example sentences for: tightrope

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Its royal House of Savoy walked a diplomatic tightrope between the rivalries of France, Switzerland, Spain, and the German emperors until the fall of Napoleon.
Apparently, some rescue workers took an adjacent elevator to the place where the man and woman were stuck, took out the side panels that separated the two elevator cars, then asked them to make a tightrope walk across a narrow beam that spanned the shaft between the two elevators, as if these two poor knee-knocking souls were suddenly the second coming of Karl Wallenda.
But instead, he walked the tightrope between commercial and art music.
She has successfully walked a tightrope in the censorship debates, using her administrative power to block grants that would have spelled trouble while sticking up for those that came under attack after they were awarded.
(To read Slate's take on Bradley's tightrope walk on vouchers, click here.)