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Simple sentences
His health is fragile.
The seedlings are very fragile.
I never said I was fragile.
Flowers are so fragile and so beautiful, that you can't speak about them without poetry or metaphors.
The balance of nature is very fragile.
Nature's equilibrium is very fragile.
These boxes are fragile.
We must protect the island's unique and fragile environment.
This vase is very fragile.
Eggs are very fragile.
This vase is fragile.
Could you put these fragile things in a safe place?
The model plane they built was fragile.
The cardboard boxes are fragile.
The label warns that the contents of the box are fragile.
The glass is fragile and transparent.
Why are beautiful things so fragile?
Movie subtitles
OutwardIy it was very impressive, but on the inside it was highly fragile.
Yeah, she's been fragile since Declan's death.
The astronomers run at full speed turning around each time they are pressed too closely and reducing the fragile beings to dust.
The fragile vessel,driven by currents,.. comes to Pomotu island, in Oceania, inhabited only by apes.
And it was these fragile white fingers that penned the nightmare.
Poor humanity - so fragile, so weak.
She's fragile and can only live where fragile things are loved.
You have a beautiful body, and you're fragile like a small animal.
Those knickknacks are fragile.
But she's also so fragile, so human, you know?
But she's more fragile than she seems.
Careful, I'm fragile.
Careful, the contents are fragile.
Because I am quite a fragile toy.
And it was these fragile white fingers that penned the nightmare. Ah!
A woman is more fragile than a flower.
You're so fragile.
Fragile.
And then you told me off for being fragile. but I still said, he's got something up his sleeve he wants to sell.
They're fragile.
His health, fragile in the best of times, could not withstand such a strain, and shortly after the premiere he had fallen seriously ill.
She's fragile.
Careful, I'm fragile. Look at those.
The child's health is fragile, I must consult a doctor before sending him here.
That's fragile stuff.
He was to prove that his glass chin had been remade into sterner stuff,. but, unfortunately for him, tonight again it was as fragile as ever.
Life is a dew. fragile and quickly scattered.
I'm not fragile, Judge Haywood. I'm a daughter of the military.
Life is so fragile.
I see now you're chasing after a fragile woman.
It's quite possible I was feeling more or less fragile at that instant.
Happiness is a fragile thing.
Oh, be careful, it'll be very fragile.
News and current affairs
For decades, major oil companies, including Shell, ExxonMobil, and Chevron, have been producing oil in the Niger Delta, an ecologically fragile environment of freshwater swamp forests, mangroves, lowland rainforests, and coastal barrier islands.
Notwithstanding the euphoric resurgence of global equity markets over the past two years, the world economy remains fragile.
These measures would provide insurance to the fragile recovery and add nothing to the long-run fiscal gap.
Given the fragile grip that these leaders have over their societies, America's warnings have been taken to heart.
What the latest findings demonstrate is that crucial parts of the world's climate system, though massive in size, are so fragile that they can be irremediably disrupted by human activity.
PARIS - Today, roughly one-quarter of the world's population lives in conflict-affected and fragile states.
It enshrines what matters most in building peaceful states and societies: commitments - the Peace- and State-building Goals - to improve how national and international partners engage in conflict-affected and fragile contexts.
But such goals are meaningful only if a fragile state's partners are ready to accept the lead from a capital like Juba rather than from their own headquarters.
Moreover, many fragile states are rich in natural resources, and must establish transparent resource management - aimed at curbing corruption and controlling illicit flows of money and goods - in order to raise the revenues needed to deliver services.
A focus on these processes would ensure that fragile states take the lead and the responsibility.
Until growth resumes, any tentative financial stabilization will be extremely fragile.
I am not arguing against healthcare capitalism, but warning that support will become fragile, far more so than for, say, globalization nowadays.
Brazil must also pay more attention to environmental management, especially in the fragile yet critical Amazon region, if it wants long-term, sustainable economic development.
The fragile political structure that began to be erected following the resumption of civilian government in 2008 is now shaking.
Second, whereas democracy and market capitalism appeared as clear - if more fragile than expected - winners in 1989, it is difficult in 2009, with the spread of the global crisis, to distinguish winners from losers.
If we are ill-prepared, global warming will cause more deaths and devastation, especially in poor countries and fragile societies.
Some Western countries - such as Greece - had fragile government accounts from the outset and tipped quickly into persistent crisis mode.
If the saving rate continues to rise rapidly, it could push America's fragile economy into another downturn.
But only if water is shared in a rational manner that respects the region's fragile ecology will human life be sustainable.
Agriculture there has been damaged by the cutting of walnut, apricot, and mulberry trees for winter fuel, and by a failure to replant poplar, willow, and tamarisk - the trees that hold fragile meadows in place.
This, in turn, would support fragile balance-of-payments positions throughout the region, potentially assisting with pervasive debt-repayment problems.
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.