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

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.

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

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.

The situation is fragile utterly fragile.

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.

These are magnified in a globalized, liberalized and competitive international economic environment and with the increasing incidence of more devastating natural disasters.

Stressing the importance of creating an economic, political, social, cultural and legal environment that will enable people to achieve social development,

Recognizing, in this context, the importance of an enabling environment and sound economic policy at both the national and the international level,

An enabling external economic environment for development requires greater coherence between the international trading, monetary and financial systems.

Recognizing, in this context, the importance of an enabling environment and sound economic policy at both the national and the international levels,

The money illusion occurs because we are accustomed to economic values almost always being framed in terms of money.

But the overall picture remains fragile.

The humanitarian situation in south Sudan is very fragile.

Without a favourable international economic and financial environment and the fulfilment of human rights obligations everywhere, universal adherence to human rights standards would remain an elusive goal.

The financial situation of the United Nations remains very fragile.

That will not be easy to achieve in a globally competitive economy in which some nations have demonstrably less respect for individual human rights than others.

Many developing countries have made enormous efforts to create a favourable national economic climate and to mobilize national resources by furthering the process of development in the political, economic and financial spheres. Many developed countries have demonstrated their readiness to meet their commitments.

The representative of Benin, speaking on behalf of the least developed countries, said that the productive capacity of enterprises in LDCs was inadequate and too weak for them to compete in an international economic environment.

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

There is a much broader security issue, relating to environmental security.

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

Post Musharraf Pakistan is a rather fragile democracy.

They know that their government is fragile, and they consider criticism harmful rather than cleansing.

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

When circumstances become dire enough, they will even condone debt restructuring if the alternative is chaos and the prospect of a greater loss.

What such States need is a more accommodating international economic environment that recognizes and takes due account of their inherent vulnerabilities when their development, financial and trade needs are being considered.

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

Yet, at the same time, the overall situation in Kosovo is fragile.

However, despite relative stability, the overall security situation remains very fragile.

Nonetheless, the security situation in the border areas can be expected to remain fragile.

9. Stresses the special importance of creating an enabling international economic environment through strong cooperative efforts by all countries and institutions to promote equitable economic development in a world economy that benefits all people

Convinced that the Israeli occupation has gravely impeded the efforts to achieve sustainable development and a sound economic environment in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan,

Like many other developing countries, Egypt believed that there was a need to place development at the centre of the international economic agenda and to enhance the coherence between national development strategies on the one hand and international obligations and commitments on the other, with the objective of creating an enabling economic environment for development.

In the wake of the recent reforms, UNIDO should reflect on changing realities and capitalize on its core strengths, knowledge and expertise in a market oriented, globalized world economic environment.

Success in building social safety networks and promoting social development depended on sustainable external support in the form of an improved external economic environment or increased capital flows.

Now, when I went to college, I found myself making fairly complicated, fragile machines.

Code word communications, which only work in a stable and crisis free economic and financial environment, had damaged ECB credibility.

We returned the proposal for another review it came back with the comment that the polymers were fragile and would break.

Intense competition among local governments for foreign investment led to dramatic improvements in the business environment, featuring economic incentives in areas like land, labor, and taxation, as well as speedy issuance of permits and approvals.

The Environment of Poverty

The Environment of the Economy

Work environment

10. Stresses the special importance of creating an enabling international economic environment through strong cooperative efforts by all countries and institutions to promote equitable economic development in a world economy that benefits all people