It must begin to reduce employment to hold costs down, a politically tricky step.

Beyond the consequences for health care in southern Iraq, abandoning the project could be tricky politically because of the high-profile support from Mrs. Bush and Ms Rice.

If directors decide to remove Mr. Raines, the selection of a successor would be politically tricky.

Eliminating the throat-slashing gesture, however, could be a politically tricky move.

It would test the administration's commitment to help big business at a time when corporate scandals have made it politically tricky to do so.

Her actions could prove politically tricky for Democrats.

Before Mr. Kim tackles those issues, though, he must negotiate a politically tricky transfer of power.

The situation was politically tricky.

He was followed soon after by Mr. Vallone, who is in a politically tricky position.

It's also, they admit, politically tricky.