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The Federal Reserve has been walking a tightrope of gradually increasing borrowing costs while trying to avoid a knee-jerk reaction from consumers and businesses, however, with inflation soaring, the runway for a soft landing is shrinking considerably, as are the chances of avoiding a recession. – George Ratiu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
China's leaders are walking a very difficult tightrope on Ukraine. – Craig Singleton	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When you’re in the moment, though, and you’re him, you do things for short-term reasons and you try to win, he’s rightfully so getting a lot of credit because he’s walking the tightrope that I walked for three or four years. ... It’s really hard. – Stan Bowman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Nowadays, it’s crossing the line, right ? It’s not bad if you’re the news for a couple of days, but you do n’t want to be the guy that ruins the night or someone’s moment, at the same time, you’ve got to be yourself. As comedians, we’re up on a tightrope trying to make sure people are entertained. But, again, we’re living in a hypersensitive society. You do n’t know where that line is sometimes. It moves from day to day. – The Hollywood Reporter	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You have to be careful playing with this, in 2011, credit rating agencies actually downgraded the U.S. Treasury debt as a result. It’s a very careful tightrope. – Brett Loper	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This will probably be a bit like walking the tightrope, if we stand still along the way we could fall and if we go too fast it can go wrong. Therefore, we must take one cautious step at a time. – Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen	Found on CNN 4 years ago
When you're doing a 10-minute scene and you make a mistake in minute seven, it's really hard, you've got to start again even though you've done stuff you're quite pleased with, it's like walking a tightrope really. – Andrew Scott	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's like walking a tightrope, you don't want to upset your licensees but you have to go where the money is. – Wayne Lam	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I've always felt like I've had to walk a tightrope with that, i've watched him enjoy a whole lot of success in the community, and it's hard. – Judith Pohl.When Pohl	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Obviously when you make the decision to make a film on such a sensitive and timely issue, it suddenly feels like you're walking a tightrope, it made me nervous to be honest. But I felt as long as we found the right kids to play the two leads and stayed true to the writing, we were gon na be ok. – Vincent Grashaw	Found on CNN 6 years ago
When we are in disruption, the mirror of the past shows all the cracks assembled during the sinuous journey of our life and makes us walk a tightrope between presence and absence. (“Disruption”) – Erik Pevernagie	added by anonymous 7 years ago
They've got to show Syngenta how profitable this will be. At the same time they have to tell the markets they aren't going to gouge them. It's a nice little tightrope they've got themselves on. – William Carner	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If they soothe the worries of the marketplace that helps a lot, they've got to show Syngenta how profitable this will be. At the same time they have to tell the markets they aren't going to gouge them. It's a nice little tightrope they've got themselves on. – William Carner	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. – Edith Newbold Jones Wharton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert. – Vince Lombardi	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. – William Arthur Ward	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Being on the tightrope is living everything else is waiting. – Karl Wallenda	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The Federal Reserve has been walking a tightrope of gradually increasing borrowing costs while trying to avoid a knee-jerk reaction from consumers and businesses, however, with inflation soaring, the runway for a soft landing is shrinking considerably, as are the chances of avoiding a recession.

– George Ratiu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

China's leaders are walking a very difficult tightrope on Ukraine.

– Craig Singleton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When you’re in the moment, though, and you’re him, you do things for short-term reasons and you try to win, he’s rightfully so getting a lot of credit because he’s walking the tightrope that I walked for three or four years. ... It’s really hard.

– Stan Bowman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Nowadays, it’s crossing the line, right ? It’s not bad if you’re the news for a couple of days, but you do n’t want to be the guy that ruins the night or someone’s moment, at the same time, you’ve got to be yourself. As comedians, we’re up on a tightrope trying to make sure people are entertained. But, again, we’re living in a hypersensitive society. You do n’t know where that line is sometimes. It moves from day to day.

– The Hollywood Reporter

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You have to be careful playing with this, in 2011, credit rating agencies actually downgraded the U.S. Treasury debt as a result. It’s a very careful tightrope.

– Brett Loper

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This will probably be a bit like walking the tightrope, if we stand still along the way we could fall and if we go too fast it can go wrong. Therefore, we must take one cautious step at a time.

– Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When you're doing a 10-minute scene and you make a mistake in minute seven, it's really hard, you've got to start again even though you've done stuff you're quite pleased with, it's like walking a tightrope really.

– Andrew Scott

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's like walking a tightrope, you don't want to upset your licensees but you have to go where the money is.

– Wayne Lam

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I've always felt like I've had to walk a tightrope with that, i've watched him enjoy a whole lot of success in the community, and it's hard.

– Judith Pohl.When Pohl

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Obviously when you make the decision to make a film on such a sensitive and timely issue, it suddenly feels like you're walking a tightrope, it made me nervous to be honest. But I felt as long as we found the right kids to play the two leads and stayed true to the writing, we were gon na be ok.

– Vincent Grashaw

Found on CNN
6 years ago

When we are in disruption, the mirror of the past shows all the cracks assembled during the sinuous journey of our life and makes us walk a tightrope between presence and absence. (“Disruption”)

– Erik Pevernagie

added by anonymous
7 years ago

They've got to show Syngenta how profitable this will be. At the same time they have to tell the markets they aren't going to gouge them. It's a nice little tightrope they've got themselves on.

– William Carner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If they soothe the worries of the marketplace that helps a lot, they've got to show Syngenta how profitable this will be. At the same time they have to tell the markets they aren't going to gouge them. It's a nice little tightrope they've got themselves on.

– William Carner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

– Edith Newbold Jones Wharton

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

– Vince Lombardi

added by anonymous
14 years ago

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

– William Arthur Ward

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Being on the tightrope is living everything else is waiting.

– Karl Wallenda

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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