The Anti Fragility of Health

The Fragility of a Flat World

to demonstrate the fragility of our senses.

For voters, however, a perception of fragility remains.

Hurricane Gordon recently revealed the fragility of our natural environment.

But this is an indication of the fragility of the process.

You see, babies are born in a state of utter fragility.

I find that Americans see the fragility in changes.

The authoritarian nature of the political regime is at the core of this fragility.

When did that kind of awareness of the planet and its fragility first appear?

Their fragility is very clear in the areas of law enforcement and administration.

That recognition was of great importance in view of the fragility of the Antarctic ecosystem.

However, we are seeing on the ground indicators of the fragility of the current situation.

13. A common characteristic of the environmental base of most OIC countries is its fragility.

Indeed, neglect of the core disputes is what has resulted in the relationship s extreme fragility.

They underlined the fragility of the Lebanese polity and its limited ability to sustain pressure.

Despite these encouraging developments, the fragility of the process can be seen in daily events.

Consequently, the fragility of our economies will only worsen, resulting in economic and social discontent.

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

The increasing fragility of the range, overgrazing, lack of investment and inappropriate herding practices illustrate growing constraints.

And, notwithstanding corruption induced fragility, the bureaucracy s capacity to implement policy is sound.

Each episode in the current crisis illustrates the fragility caused by this interdependence.

Those factors are well known the internal nature of today's conflicts and the increasing fragility of international law.

A partnership is necessary to address the ecological fragility and economic vulnerability of small island developing States.

What has been achieved retains a fragility that may be all too easily shattered.

In view of the continuing fragility of the tribunals' finances, he urges other Member States to follow their example.

The fragility of the world economic situation should not obscure the successes achieved in several areas of international relations.

The Mission had ample opportunity to observe the fragility of the ecosystem and the scarcity of land and resources.

In this zone, by law, economic activities must be compatible with the fragility of the tropical forest ecosystem.

Fragility and endemicity are the two major characteristics of small islands apos biodiversity that warrant urgent conservation measures.

The fragility of the continent gave cause for concern growth was very slow, and recovery would take years.

However, the Government is aware of the fragility of that issue and intends to manage it the most rational way.

Long marginalized in world decision making, our countries of the South continue to suffer the consequences of our economic fragility.

But despite, and perhaps because of, this very progress there remains a certain fragility in the balance of our world.

As in the Soviet era, the dictatorial mask disguises the system s economic and political fragility.

Indeed, greater competitive pressure may increase the fragility of banks balance sheets and make investors more prone to panics.

On the contrary, recent euphoria has been marred by violence and bloodshed, exposing the fragility of the peace settlement.

I should like now to take up the problem of the small island States, of whose fragility everyone here is aware.

We are all aware today of the fragility of this electoral process and of the constant threat posed by violence and intolerance.

He noted the continuing insecurity, the political and military volatility, mounting ethnic intolerance and the fragility of the transition process.

The sub prime mortgage crisis has shown how lack of international coordination and regulation can exacerbate the inherent fragility of financial markets.

Yanukovich s candidacy thus reveals much about the nature of the people who back him, and also about the fragility of Ukraine s democracy.

Because of the fragility of our ecological system, our biodiversity resources, including forestry and fisheries and other marine living resources, are threatened.

They embody a unique and peculiar combination of vulnerability to ecological fragility, natural disasters and the vagaries of the international economic situation.

On the overall question of resources, we share the Secretary General's concern over the fragility of the financial situation of the United Nations.