Over the next couple of months, we are going to see at least two bipartisan commissions attempt to thread the needle on deficit reduction.
But he is also he trying to thread the needle of winning conservative Republicans without taking positions that might be used against him should he be the nominee.
Because of their relative proximity, the three airspace cylinders affect one another significantly, which creates congestion not just because of volume but because pilots have to thread the needle and fly needlessly intricate approach routes in order to comply.
From the outset of his administration, Mr. Obama has been trying to thread the needle between national security policy and his ideological affinity with civil liberties lawyers and human-rights activists, meeting with and consulting them prior to making detainee-related decisions.
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" The column went on to describe Mr. Obama's campaign as "an attempt to thread the Niebuhrian needle.
From the valley below, each pier and mast merge to look like a single needle with an elongated eye: Foster's drawings, in fact, depict a thread piercing the eye of a needle.
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The initial accommodation that was announced last winter on the HHS mandate, it appeared to thread a needle to appease progressive Catholics that the administration had inadvertently upset during what was arguably a very politically charged time of an election year.
He showed it to an expert, who found the needle-and-thread theory "entirely original, " says Mr. Humphrey, whose own scholarly work has examined arenas for Roman chariot racing.
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This is the tough needle I think Santos is asking his press corps to thread.
The last scrutineer pierces each ballot with a threaded needle through the word "Eligo (elect)" and places it on the thread.
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