delicate mechanism

collocation in English

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delicate
adjective
uk
/ˈdel.ɪ.kət/us
/ˈdel.ə.kət/
needing careful treatment, especially because ...
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mechanism
noun[C]
uk
/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/us
/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/
a part of a machine, or a set of parts that ...
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(Definition ofdelicateandmechanismfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The administration of the steel industry is adelicatemechanism.
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It is like putting a walking stick into thedelicatemechanismof a watch.
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It is what happens to thedelicatemechanismin between those levers and the balance of payments.
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Are they under the impression that no reaction at all is going to take place in the extraordinarilydelicatemechanismof international exchange?
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But the hardship that it places upon thedelicatemechanismof distribution has been well illustrated over the last two or three days.
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Thus, on top of thisdelicatemechanismwhich they have worked out, they will have to impose a crazy superstructure of a flat-rate increase.
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I submit that in war time, as in any other times, we should be most careful of thedelicatemechanismof foreign exchange.
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The fact that thisdelicatemechanismis only very infrequently disturbed should remind us that trade unionists also have a very high sense of responsibility.
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That sense of touch, developed after years of handling reallydelicatemechanism, has been ruined, bruised, and destroyed by work upon the roads.
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I am well aware that this procedure is a verydelicatemechanism.
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We are dealing here with thedelicatemechanismof large industries.
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It is a vast, complex anddelicatemechanismand, badly or roughly handled or interfered with, it could plunge world trade into a deep depression.
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International trade is a much moredelicatemechanismthan many of us give it credit for.
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Yet governments keep on poking their ramrods of tariffs, quotas, and exchange restrictions into thedelicatemechanismof international trade, until now the machine is jammed almost to a standstill.
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Being validated with conservative molecular biology methods, such information can serve as an important tool in discovering delicate mechanisms of vital cellular functions.
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Really propaganda and organisation are the two most intricate and delicate mechanisms of industry and commerce which exist.
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Commodity schemes are sensitive and delicate mechanisms and it is right to look at what has been happening around the world.
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