While we have made progress, the Kosovo security environment does, however, remain fragile.

Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is a fragile environment.

By any standards, the reform agenda is ambitious especially given a fragile and unaccommodating external environment.

Maintaining stability in the increasingly fragile security environment has remained a major challenge for the Mission.

Conversely, when democratic transition was attempted in a fragile and closed economic environment, the outcome was much worse.

Debris are threatening to degrade the already fragile space environment and may render space unfit for human endeavours.

Peace will always remain fragile and subject to reverses without a propitious economic environment and real development prospects.

Confidence is fragile in an environment characterized by ongoing deleveraging, macro uncertainties, weak labor market growth, and a fiscal drag.

The situation is fragile utterly fragile.

Completion of either of these projects would do much to transform this region, although it could have devastating consequences on the fragile environment.

Product designer Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for a new, fungus based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture, plasma screens and the environment.

The modest number of villages recommended for immediate assistance and identified for further assessment reflects the fragile security environment in many parts of the State.

But in the developing world, immediate economic needs often override long term imperatives, and protecting a fragile environment is rarely a priority at the national level.

Our fragile environment has worsened as a result of climate change, sea level rise, climate variability and susceptibility to natural disasters and other global environmental phenomena.

Russia s Fragile Power

In addition, the natural disasters that regularly hit the region, especially the South Pacific Island States, have had extremely damaging impacts on both the environment and fragile economies.

Layla's life was fragile.

Asia s Fragile Special Relationship

Private sector growth is hampered by a fragile business environment characterized by poor physical and financial infrastructure, small scale industries with a limited contribution to GDP, and a vast black market.

In a fragile economic environment, policymakers cannot afford to allow the size of China s balance sheet to distract them from the underlying structural risks and contingent liabilities that threaten its financial stability.

In a fragile economic environment, policymakers cannot afford to allow the size of China s balance sheet to distract them from the underlying structural risks and contingent liabilities that threaten its financial stability.

A New Deal for Fragile States

It is fragile, unbalanced, and limited.

The Welfare State u0027s Fragile Foundations

But the overall picture remains fragile.

It was also vital to protect fragile mountain ecosystems, which were important sources of freshwater and biological diversity and popular tourist destinations, and to promote traditional knowledge so as to preserve the environment for posterity.

Some fragile goods have been delivered for Sami.

The current government is a fragile multiparty coalition.

Post Musharraf Pakistan is a rather fragile democracy.

It is fragile it could easily be spoiled.

Expressing its deep concern over the vulnerability of the environment and the fragile ecosystems of the polar regions, including the Arctic Ocean and the Arctic ice cap, particularly affected by the projected adverse effects of climate change,

Yann Arthus Bertrand captures fragile Earth in wide angle

Some of these democracies are very young and fragile.

The humanitarian situation in south Sudan is very fragile.

As we live in a very fragile island environment, our long term security and sustainable development are closely linked to the issues of climate change, the preservation of biodiversity and the management of our limited forests and water resources.

As a result, China s financial system is becoming increasingly fragile.

That, apparently, was too much for the president s fragile ego.

The new government s fragile equilibrium only reinforces this sober interpretation.

Colonial history shows that this type of rule is fragile.

The overall security situation in Liberia remained calm, but fragile.

The financial situation of the United Nations remains very fragile.

It was characterized by a nation versus nation, very fragile standoff.

Lebanon is now fragile, as Iran pushes Hezbollah into the battle.

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

Second, China s financial system is fragile, and its economic structure rigid.