Jultagi, tightrope walking (Republic of Korea): Traditional Korean Jultagi is a distinctive form of tightrope walking that is accompanied by music and witty dialogue between the tightrope walker and an earthbound clown.
The rites that accompany the festivity vary from place to place, ranging from leaping over fires and streams in Iran to tightrope walking, leaving lit candles at house doors, traditional games such as horse racing or the traditional wrestling practised in Kyrgyzstan.
Without him, ministers fear they will slip from the tightrope they are walking.
Italy is therefore walking a tightrope: It can stand neither with Gadhafi nor too aggressively against him.
Currently, the bloc is walking a tightrope between a rising China and an America that is reasserting its status as an Asia-Pacific power.
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For many of us, overcoming our fear walking a tightrope or leaping off a 30-foot pole gave us confidence that we could do anything, including succeed on our MBA programme.
While Catholics were busy burning witches and Lutherans and other protestant groups were busy taking all the fun and mysterious things out of Christianity, Anglicans were busy walking the tightrope between.
The government in Riyadh depends on the United States for its defence, but has found itself walking a tightrope, with increasing uneasiness among many Saudis over the presence of US troops.
Reconciling both of these views is a bit like walking a tightrope or standing in the middle of a see-saw: perfect balance is necessary to achieve the second in the face of the first.
The Justice Department officials acknowledge walking a tightrope.
Ms. Quinn has been walking a tightrope: continued opposition would upset the liberal voters who turn out for party primaries, while yielding would leave her open to criticism from the business community in November's general election.
For her part, Ms. Quinn has been walking a tightrope: Open opposition would upset the liberal voters who turn out for party primaries, while yielding would leave her open to criticism from the business community in November's general election.
Boehner has been walking a tightrope trying to find a deal that will pass muster within his own party while also including enough on the tax front to draw approval from Democrats in the Senate and President Obama.
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Policymakers are walking a tightrope.
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Quieting an angry client means walking a delicate tightrope between action and intention.
President Obama's administration is walking a diplomatic tightrope in responding to the crisis.
On October 18th, with commendable frankness, Reebok published a 41-page report on how it was walking this particular tightrope in Indonesia.
But three of Sven-Goran Eriksson's men will be walking a disciplinary tightrope if they figure against the Group Seven minnows at Old Trafford.
Goldman seems to be succeeding in maintaining a balancing act while walking the regulatory tightrope by also giving in to rules on quite a few instances.
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Walking a political tightrope with great skill he staked out the ground on which he agreed as well as disagreed with the woman who, he said, had defined the age.
The Chinese looked to walking the economic tightrope well.
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As a result, central banks are now walking the economy on a very thin tightrope between inflation and deflation.
The country is walking what amounts to an oil-slicked tightrope: the austerity packages designed to cut spending and reel in more bailout money from its European brethren are also a brake on growth that keep the economy from producing enough money to reduce the deficit and meet the criteria for any additional loans.
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