The euro, as the SNB s move implied, remains as fragile as ever.

In Baidu's doodle, the woman is a fragile and adorable girl who needs to be protected.

The second Achilles' heel is complexity a growing fragility, a growing brittleness.

The alliance forged in the Cold War will become increasingly fragile.

The stability of those Arab regimes that are not sustained by a democratic consensus is bound to be fragile and misleading.

Although recovery in advanced countries remains fragile, developing countries appear to have weathered the storm.

And from the front, this object appeared to be very strong and robust, and from the side, it almost seemed very weak.

However, as history unfolded, the alliance of the National Front and Kashani became a fragile one.

The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas could yet be an unlikely foundation for peace

The reason is self evident civil society is an intricate, fragile, even mysterious entity that evolves over decades, if not centuries.

The imperial order becomes brittle, and, as Kagan rightly notes, when the old order finally breaks down, mayhem often follows.

One can understand that enlightened believers in Islam (of whom there are many) find it upsetting that the world in which they want to live is in fact frail and vulnerable.

Restricting criminal liability to actual perpetrators, carefully excluding clansmen and kin, is a fragile historical innovation aimed at interrupting spirals of bloody inter communal violence.

Despite China s greater weight in world affairs, Xi faces internal strains that make China more fragile than is generally understood. China s export led economic model has reached its limits, and the transition to domestic led growth is intensifying internal frictions.

The one over Tunguska was probably made of rock, and that's much more crumbly, so it blew up in the air. Either way, these are tremendous explosions, 20 megatons.

Despite China s greater weight in world affairs, Xi faces internal strains that make China more fragile than is generally understood.

Eventually, central banks will need to exit quantitative easing and zero interest rates, putting downward pressure on risky assets, including commodities. Or the global recovery may turn out to be fragile and anemic, leading to a rise in bearish sentiment on commodities and in bullishness about the US dollar.

Syria s agony continues unabated sectarian attacks in Iraq are becoming more frequent and deadly the threads of Lebanon s fragile peace are fraying Jordan is awash in refugees

Or the global recovery may turn out to be fragile and anemic, leading to a rise in bearish sentiment on commodities and in bullishness about the US dollar.

Japan s governments have been fragile and short lived for close to a decade, and the current debate over raising the value added tax could cause another change of administration.

So long as the Haitian state remains fragile and the Haitian economy continues to decompose, the network of mafias living on illegal immigration into the Dominican Republic will continue to flourish.

In short, as Greenspan departs, he leaves behind an American economy burdened with high household and government debt and fragile balance sheets a legacy that is already contributing to global financial instability.

Unless Syria s rulers, like other leaders in the Arab world, begin to appreciate that freedom is a fundamental human right, even the most quiescent people s patience may wear dangerously thin.

Almost inevitably, or so it seems, the idea of Pakistan has been usurped, which is why Pakistan s friends have so often become its masters, and why Pakistan continues to remain fragile, insecure, and tense.

The Hague Tribunal is often blamed for burdening fragile reform governments in Croatia and Serbia with unreasonable requests that play into the hands of nationalist politicians. This is true to the extent that the Tribunal is insensitive to the intricate balancing expected of officials in the countries of the former Yugoslavia.

The Hague Tribunal is often blamed for burdening fragile reform governments in Croatia and Serbia with unreasonable requests that play into the hands of nationalist politicians.

The semblance of peace on the Korean Peninsula remains fragile, and South Korea s government has engaged in intensive diplomatic efforts to rally friends and partners in the region and worldwide to deter the North.

Some of these countries are either in conflict or are fragile states, so a diminishing flow of remittances will aggravate their instability, and perhaps increase the flow of migration to other countries.