The fragile reinforced concrete elements were repaired and protected through new chemical treatments. |
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She had long, brown tatty hair and wore clothes that were nothing more than rags that hung loosely off her fragile, underfed body. |
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Although optimism is running high, the current lull in violence is fragile. |
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A smile touched his blue lips as he patiently waited for the fragile wings of gossamer that would carry him to the heavens. |
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Her head lied flaccidly upon Paul's shoulder, as she dozed into a fragile state of sleep. |
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The company has punctured this fragile mood of optimism with a miscalculation of astonishing proportions. |
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An additional untitled track appears on my copy, delicately picked strings give a warm, fragile romantic pastoral glossiness throughout. |
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The first movement begins sotto voce, with the cello's fragile harmonics, perilously high on the A string. |
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Superimpose on that kind of situation an already fragile political state, and you have a recipe for failed states and civil war. |
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They swarm across the planet like locusts, stripping environments bare and collapsing fragile economies. |
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Feeling the thumps of fear in the fragile body, I lifted the tiny beast to the sand and watched it scamper away. |
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A fragile defense conceded five times as tactical confusion turned an impregnable rearguard into a poor one. |
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Gone was the haughty princess, and in her place stood a fragile girl wilting at his harsh words. |
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If the oscillations are not damped out, they could break the fragile lines of other suspended weights and become amplified. |
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So this film, with all its glossiness, is by far the most fragile and vulnerable work I've done. |
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Sudden bursts of light tend to remind our more fragile ballerinas of Bolshevik gunfire. |
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Brown curls that framed his fragile features and accented his crystalline red-hazel eyes. |
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Couched in poised and lucid prose, The Namesake is a an exquisite tale, full of fine and fragile humour. |
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Given its unique form factor and somewhat fragile feel, the 2.5-by 4.5-inch unit isn't for everyone. |
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Most of the other scholars were old fossils that seemed so fragile that the slightest breath of wind would keel them over. |
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They are still failing to protect fragile dunes, shellfish beds, and nesting grounds from four-wheel drives. |
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The damage plastic had done to the fragile hill environment was also highlighted. |
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How has awareness of the damage irrigation can cause these fragile environments affected the Lake? |
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Some farmers were busy pumping water from fields in a bid to save fragile crops from fungal and root damage. |
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So, at ten o'clock, after a slight and fragile encore by the band, we were all promptly told to get out. |
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These rolls were rather fragile and easily torn, so they tended to become damaged if much used. |
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Introduced reindeer and muskoxen have thrived to such a degree that heavy grazing now threatens to damage the fragile vegetation. |
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Tourists also damage the fragile ecosystem by dumping plastic waste and driving over the grasslands. |
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Stone walls with fragile mortars can be damaged by high pressure sprays and the chemicals used. |
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It had not occurred to them that a side-effect of their research might be damaging to the fragile ecology of the country they were studying. |
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It's best to watch them from the openings rather than swimming in, because you could damage the fragile coral roofs and frighten them off. |
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Shaver blades are fragile and easily can shatter or break inside the cavity in which they are used. |
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I suspect that the joystick will prove to be fragile and unreliable, but I don't have any data to support that. |
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In addition, an increased frequency of occurrence is noted in patients with genetic conditions such as fragile X syndrome and tuberous sclerosis. |
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Such conditions include fragile X syndrome, neurofibromatosis, tuberous sclerosis, Noonan's syndrome and Cornelia de Lange's syndrome. |
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He dreamt of holding her fragile body in his arms and kissing her sweet dainty lips. |
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Even if programmatically attractive, this is a precariously fragile hypothesis. |
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Eventually it sounds downright lugubrious, a dead hand which ultimately presses the life out of these fragile creations. |
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The body of geometer moths is thin and more fragile looking than in other macromoths. |
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Two friends have their fragile relationship shattered when one of them comes up with a get-rich-quick scheme that actually succeeds. |
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Use composite dressings cautiously if the patient is dehydrated or has fragile skin. |
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What is also forgotten in all of this is how fragile the de jure standards have been in the past. |
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The chapter on the nest, its delicacy, its fragile nature and the monumental painful effort of the bird to build it is wonderful. |
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He claimed to have painted these pictures from the need to make a living, yet they have a fragile delicacy that is precious and rare. |
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The best ceramic artworks are delicate, but not fragile, and utilitarian, but not dull. |
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They were sometimes so small they could fit in an adults palm, their skin was always delicate, their lungs fragile. |
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Most of the works were done on silk or rice paper, both very fragile and delicate materials. |
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Wire frame glasses look great with any outfit, the only disadvantage is that they may be a little more fragile and delicate than plastic glasses. |
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Although there was only a year of difference between their ages, she was small and petite, not fragile, but seemingly delicate. |
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The wounds were still too raw and painful for the fragile bandages to be removed. |
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One minute and two seconds of Mrs. Lennon wibbling away about her fragile state of mind. |
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Fuchsias come in wide varieties ranging from tall shrubs to very fragile greenhouse specimens. |
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The nylon band loops through fixed rings on the brushed stainless-steel housing rather than attaching to fragile pins. |
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The fragile banking industry is tottering, and the enormous level of foreign investment China has enjoyed over the past decade is under threat. |
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Many people in the world, including me, are so weak and fragile that they easily fall into temptation and make mistakes. |
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With the sudden highs and disturbing lows, especially in the fragile lives of young celebs, mental peace and balance is hard to maintain. |
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The rule of law is fragile, with gangs of thugs running protection rackets in many cities, in the absence of a reliable police force. |
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Here the phenomenon of lyrical and tactile darkness is as fragile in his memory and consciousness as the elusive tropes of a poem. |
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The main disadvantage is that they are a bit fragile in heavy weather even if they are weighted down. |
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Helxine soleirolii looks like a fragile weed but it spreads by rooting at the leaf joints. |
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Nature periodically reminds Australians just how fragile their hold on the land is. |
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Smaller than you'd expect and very fragile looking compared to all the jumbos about the place. |
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Cleaning and preparing, and then scanning the fragile autochromes took a few weeks by itself. |
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The jokes are fragile and easily turn unfunny because they don't really turn on any actual adventuresomeness on the comic's part. |
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Only the final peristomeal differentiations, with fragile lappets, may disappear during fossilization. |
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The squad still looked woefully lacking in depth, with the defence looking especially fragile. |
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His womenswear sets razor-sharp tailoring against indulgently romantic dresses formed from layers of fragile chiffon. |
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Continued price wars between supermarkets could place the fragile recovery of British agriculture on a knife-edge again. |
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Victoria laid the fragile child in her arms on the hard wooden bench they used as a makeshift bed. |
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The lacrimal bone is a small and fragile bone at the inner orbit of the eye through which the lacrimal duct runs. |
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Enormous trading activities with transportation might affect the fragile and pristine environment in an adverse manner. |
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Being victims of their own success, many dime novels and yellowbacks are fragile or in poor repair. |
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And the crew left no telltale scars on the fragile hillsides where they had been intensely working, she says. |
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On the fringes of the bay, fragile marshes and winding waterways are teeming with birds and wildlife. |
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Musical backing is kept low key with touches of strings, brass and brooding electronica, never overshadowing Jane's fragile but emotive vocals. |
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They were blowing the treetops and shaking the fragile leaves off the few trees planted in the courtyard. |
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Still the dominant phonetic presence is of light vowels and soft consonants, a bright but increasingly fragile idyll asking to be shattered. |
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Carting him around my district must have damaged his already fragile body somehow! |
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The new moon of the ninth month of the lunar calendar shines down on an Afghanistan that is struggling with the uncertainties of a fragile peace. |
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Eventually, our ordinary people will be affected with adverse effects on our still fragile economy. |
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The other part of me was still doggedly determined that whatever it was that made Mary so different, so fragile, it was not my fault. |
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The Pixies' originals are masterpieces, but the second disc seems to indicate that they are fragile in that denomination. |
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There is variety in texture, too, from the fragile laciness of maidenhair fern to the solidity of harts tongue fern. |
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In the Sandy Pond area, you'll enjoy the beauty of fragile barrier beaches, dunes, lagoons, and freshwater marshes. |
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When drying a hand-knitted jumper or other very fragile garment, lay it flat on top of a clean towel and roll up. |
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You would not want to shock the fragile sensibilities of the unmarried ladies in the room. |
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Yet memory is not as limited, fragile and boring a human talent as it is often thought to be today. |
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To preserve fragile and moist blooms such as anemones, daisies, pansies, and zinnias, use silica gel, available from florist and craft suppliers. |
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All specimens are exuviae, with thin and fragile carapaces and abdomens and fragmentary bodies and appendages. |
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With strong partners, we have an opportunity to create active stewards of our fragile coastal environment. |
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Although this is optional, I highly recommend it because this helps make the light bulb less fragile. |
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Millions of snow geese are mining the fragile tundra in the central and eastern Arctic. |
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They were careful to make sure Robinson's helmet and feet did not contact the fragile ship. |
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The foundation said the effects of the spill on the island's fragile environment were still unclear. |
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Rey painted an uncompromising picture of poverty, poor education, crime, corruption and fragile democracy. |
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The show of nuclear capability should be placed in the context of the fragile political base on which India's new ruling coalition rests. |
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Can you manage to stack things into a bag so that the most fragile items are on the bottom, and the heavy ones are on the top? |
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A vintage Port that has been aged for twenty or more years is likely to be as fragile as any table wine of similar age. |
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One is a microscopic rod-shaped bacterium called bacillus anthracis, easy to grow in the lab but fragile and easily killed in the open. |
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Even very small, fragile bones and fish scales are preserved in the deposits. |
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I shear away the scaly skin from the fish, trying to keep as much of it intact as I possibly can, but the membrane under the scales is fragile. |
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We are fragile and vulnerable, and shall remain so for as long as we are creatures. |
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He added the main mill building and outbuildings would be demolished because they were fragile and there were traces of asbestos. |
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The illuminated manuscripts are so fragile the lighting is very low in the gallery. |
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Despite the momentum toward recovery, the baht is fragile and the stock market moribund. |
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The conference touched on many things, but none more deeply than the fragile environment that still exists around the very concept of ecotourism. |
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This one hatched faster than the first, fierce little claws punching through the fragile shell and scrabbling to get free. |
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Writing first on heavy clay with fragile reed styluses led the Sumerians to simplify their drawings. |
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It's crystallized like muscovado sugar, but the crystals are more fragile and collapse faster in your mouth. |
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As soon as we attempt to do so we will start to discover just how fragile our unity is. |
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Defeat would leave them pointless and inflict further damage on their already fragile self-confidence. |
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If too many emerge, it could have a devastating impact on global equity markets and destroy the current fragile confidence. |
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Consider the possibility, however, and you realise how fragile the Government's grip on the situation is. |
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However, as the stormy debates at the conference demonstrated, this fragile unity has not been easily won. |
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The ideal of tolerance and sympathy, therefore, could be extremely tenuous and fragile. |
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The measures came as sectarian attacks threaten to derail a fragile peace deal. |
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Heaven forbid we damage someone's fragile ego by telling them the truth about their capabilities or who they are! |
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The situation worsens, and threatens the fragile peace and stability of an entire region. |
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This has done serious damage to the fragile alliance that still supports free trade. |
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Countless daily suicide bombings are threatening to tear the fragile nature of the community apart completely. |
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Unfortunately, Peter is also quickly losing his already fragile grip on reality. |
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It will destroy the fragile institutions of international law built up over the last few decades. |
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He was fragile and brilliant, and those things came to bear in the decisions he made and what happened to his government. |
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In this case the most frail and fragile patients, newborns, are the ones who are being affected. |
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The parents may complain that they are too fragile to deal with a child who is so burdensome. |
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Let's work together and show that scumbag that you are not weak and fragile. |
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Although still weak and fragile, it was decided she should return to her home environment. |
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The true owner of the institution is his fragile wife, Christina, who is also a cardiac patient. |
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It was a slightly distasteful thing to watch, this video diary of a fragile man in need of help. |
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At least that way she could go and buy some powdered milk for her stick-thin fragile children. |
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I wouldn't say he was ill at the time we saw him, but he certainly was fragile and weak. |
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His boss had given him a few days off from work to watch over his ailing daughter and fragile wife. |
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The brains of premature babies are fed by a rich network of tiny blood vessels which are thin, fragile and easily damaged. |
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This painful condition renders bones so fragile that even a slight knock or fall can break them. |
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Dad is in a home in Belfast, as he is very fragile, but still cheerful and asking when the dancing starts. |
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The last time was the night after the firework and I was too fragile to stand in that pub with fireworks going off all over London. |
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Five years earlier, the man's five-year-old grandson had been diagnosed with fragile X syndrome. |
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In Williams Syndrome, this fragile system was significantly abnormal, particularly the orbitofrontal cortex. |
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Cut loose, he has plummeted into a deep crevasse, where against all odds he lands on a fragile ledge and survives. |
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For all its harshness, Ladakh's is a fragile environment, and purists might balk at the kind of meal my hosts cooked that night. |
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In a way it is perhaps disappointing to think that the only small mark one has made on the fragile page of history is to have danced on a table. |
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The index is already fragile with profit-taking, as several blue chips have already been overbought. |
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Winter jasmine is doggedly flowering on the fence by the chicken house in spite of rain which bedraggles the fragile petals. |
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It all died down, but not before leaving Amir's already fragile temperament somewhat more frayed. |
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This was not a fragile plot that would have collapsed had the US government been able to achieve a few successes. |
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He grabbed the side of her face, and gentled the kiss, as if she were a fragile piece of glass. |
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The insertion of mega-brand convenience stores like these into fragile local business ecologies will be a powerful diagnostic for their health. |
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It reminded her of cotton, loads of little balls of cotton and fluff, fragile, whisked into the air by a fan that had been left on overnight. |
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Canadian films aren't as fragile as the most sensitive and nervous industry cheerleaders seem to believe. |
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She played the character as a fragile English rose struggling to take root in the immoral mire of Berlin. |
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Though the population is still fragile, today as many as 1,000 birds overwinter in the state. |
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The collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971 brought down with it the fragile European edifice. |
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But trafficators were so fragile that they easily broke off and had a tendency to stick to the closed position. |
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The fragile wafer of February sun was directly overhead, shedding watery light but no warmth. |
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The delicate fragile fern and the larger fragrant wood fern nestle in the crevices of the sheer cliff off the northern side of the summit. |
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But brain and heart are fragile and often traumatized tissue in Frank's world. |
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Visit ponds, swamps, fragile marshes, and pretty beaches along the Chesapeake, or fish the area's many streams and rivers. |
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Occasionally the reader is treated to a rare triad of Welsh wisdom from the ancient and fragile Grey Book of Glynsabon. |
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Coral reef systems are one of the most fragile and biodiverse ecosystems on Earth. |
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Sometimes tritanopia occurs due to disease, because the short wavelength cone is more fragile than the other cone types. |
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That's all he had time to do before the cold steel of a gun impacted solidly with the fragile bones of his skull. |
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In the seventeenth century, the country was ruled by a monarch with a severe speech impediment and a fragile ego. |
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The curved capsule seems improbably fragile, like a giant insect cocoon lodged among the trees. |
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Tuberous sclerosis, untreated phenylketonuria and fragile X syndrome are genetic syndromes associated with autism. |
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Folate deficiency appears to facilitate genetic modification at a fragile chromosomal site. |
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He stars as a sound engineer in a happy but bland marriage to an emotionally fragile woman with psychic abilities. |
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The grizzled Sathe dismissed the guard with a disgusted hiss and a swat across the ears that tore the fragile membrane. |
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We walked on through the fragile valley watching for diamondbacks and indigo snakes, maybe even for a serpent. |
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The outbreak of swine flu, which has already claimed 429 lives around the world, will undoubtedly damage the already fragile global economy. |
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Once again Rovers players showed how mentally fragile they are by switching off at key moments and accepting second best all too easily. |
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At first listen, all the songs are fragile things, built from simple acoustic instruments and unadorned arrangements. |
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The steel frame is wrapped in thin sheets of translucent polycarbonate cladding that gently diffuses light like a fragile membrane of rice paper. |
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You sew new patches on old, fragile cloth, it will tear around the patch and make the hole bigger. |
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I bit into the peach and the fragile skin broke, filling my mouth with juice and peach meats. |
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He took it in his hand the way he would a fragile piece of spun glass, a glaring opposite to Nimue's handling of it as if it were a meat cleaver. |
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The fragile tops of them were knocked down by the body blow from the creature, sending them crashing to the ground. |
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Colonial gardeners also used cloches, or bell glasses, to nurture fragile seedlings and extend the growing season. |
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Stark warnings and a constant bombardment of information on the fragile nature of Earth's environment surround us on a weekly basis. |
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The temperate and boreal forests along with the arctic tundra of these four provinces are extremely fragile. |
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It looked so fragile, as though anything but a feather-light touch could break it. |
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Households are fragile and vulnerable, easily upset by the power and unpredictability of human emotions. |
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Results varied relative to the indistinctiveness of design or lack of detail, obviously, the method was not applied on fragile fragments. |
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Yet, in the midst of this chaos this fragile city hung together by a slender thread that is the city's indomitable spirit and heart. |
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Australia has a fragile ecosystem and limited natural resources despite its huge size. |
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Her eyes were brimming with unshed tears threatening to fall down her pale and fragile face. |
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Tiny, fragile claws poked through the hole, followed by a slender snout, nostrils flaring. |
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Instead, I held the fragile note from that fateful night in my fingertips, taking extreme care not to break the brittle edges. |
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He explains that he's engaged and can't be involved with her, and he leaves, breaking her fragile heart in the process. |
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The artificial ventilation of the lungs can damage the fragile lungs of these severely premature babies. |
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The listener will be treated to un-pedaled acoustic pieces as well as backward loops and dubs as fragile as a tapestry of overlaid spiderwebs. |
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But they're more fragile than other TVs and may suffer from burn-in, which occurs when a fixed image becomes permanently etched on the screen. |
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An energetic young pup of a larger breed can also harm very young children or fragile elderly people by jumping on them excitedly. |
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The thing is, those wires and poles are fragile, so the eruv has to be checked every week. |
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She was bleached by being so much indoors, and looked very fragile in the costly simplicity of her black draperies as she entered. |
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Yes, we are likely to busticate our fragile necks, trying to get out of here in the dark. |
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Her fragile spirit has been broken, and she will be a perfect as a mouthpiece of the downtrodden. |
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Her fragile spirit has been broken, and she will be perfect as a mouth piece of the downtrodden. |
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Pesticides slowly destroy the health of coffee harvesters and the fragile environment surrounding them. |
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Monday morning arrived with a cooling breeze, scattering fragile wisps of cloud across a hazy sky. |
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The producers seem to take the most fragile of headcases from our TV slots and ram them into a house stuffed with other fragile headcases. |
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Our statistics also show that more than half of those heritage seeds were introduced by only 21 companies, so these gains are extremely fragile. |
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It's either feast or famine for the fragile Canadian feature-film industry. |
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Could there ever be a situation where it would be to the advantage of a swimming vertebrate to have such fragile fins? |
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Only track three has no vocals, and the track is beautiful in its interplay of fragile melody, organ washes, guitar and bass. |
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Pictographs also are fragile, since prehistoric artisans do not appear to have used any fixative, such as animal fat, in their pigments. |
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The bedroom scenes with a playful and coquettish Cariola show the duchess and Antonio's fragile happiness and the sensuality of their love. |
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In early spring, fragile perennials, such as foxgloves and delphiniums, take center stage. |
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The recruiter will think the applicant too fragile to stand the frustrations of daily life. |
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But shhh, you have to pretend otherwise, or you'll bruise their fragile egos. |
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The second was green and almost see-through, its fragile elegancy disturbed only by a shallow circular hole on one side. |
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Cargo ships still to this day jostle with rice barges and fragile sampans, whilst porters sweat in the humidity loading the boats. |
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Men belaud you as delicate and fragile, so as to delude you into thinking yourselves weak. |
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There is optimism, he said, but Scotland remained behind the rest of the UK and the recovery is fragile. |
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The outback landscape is varied, and plant and animal life totally unique, and the eco-systems fragile and fascinating. |
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In the life of this nation, we have often been reminded that nature is an awesome force and that all life is fragile. |
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The company designed and manufactured a new set of castings to house the fragile electronic componentry. |
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The third and final step called for reupholstering the furniture using noninvasive techniques in order not to damage the fragile wood frames. |
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Anything that's going to mess with the infrastructure now that it's so delicate and fragile could cause some unpleasantries. |
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He and his wife are fragile, physically unprepossessing and teary-eyed from the outset. |
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Marginal and fragile lands cleared for export crop production rapidly become infertile and erosion prone. |
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Secondly, Australia is a fragile, arid country with infertile soils over large areas, and sketchy water tables in a lot of areas. |
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She felt the piercing sting of humiliation and her heart being broken and torn apart like some fragile letter. |
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It was a fragile new nation beset by political infighting and civil war involving ethnic minorities and communists backed by China. |
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As drawing boards fill with plans for dams, navigation channels and irrigation projects, the fragile ecology is in danger of collapsing. |
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It is unsettling to discover a layer of fragile, unsound rock concealed between deep strata of solid granite, but not uncommon. |
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So, trapped in the musty atmosphere of planet earth, they appear clumsy and fragile. |
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At the same time, the country's fragile economy, based on unsustainable exploitation of natural resources, has imploded. |
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Like the late Nick Drake, local boy Summers seems too fragile a creature to last very long on this planet. |
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Beneath the social armour of her Galliano jacket, Gucci trousers and Manolos, her beauty is as fragile as porcelain. |
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It would be a very fragile moral and political order that depended upon pretended ignorance of social facts. |
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She had lived ascetically to the point where she destroyed her fragile mental and physical health. |
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The skin of people with EB simplex is so fragile that even minor rubbing may cause blistering. |
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County, so fragile at times last season, are making the most of what they have, though, and stayed out in front yesterday. |
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From the brightness of the hallway they climbed the darkened staircase, carefully, as if it was fragile and could break with a heavy step. |
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Meanwhile other developments threatened to upset the fragile strategic nuclear balance. |
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This fragile monster truck of booze and soft drugs eventually careened off the road. |
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Once in his room, Tony's fragile control broke, tears quickly blinding him. |
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They were dressed plainly, and their pale pointed faces and weird dark eyes made them look meek and fragile. |
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The smallest of them all, a fragile child in a deep sandal-beige coloured frock, stood in the middle. |
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With the southern states threatening to secede from the fragile Union, the delegates agreed to the Three-Fifths Compromise. |
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He kissed Greek soil, which was held up in a basket in deference to his fragile physical state. |
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The room is fitted with special low lighting and window blinds to allow fragile works to be displayed. |
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By this method, the Chinese cooked fragile pancakes of millet or wheat flour, which they filled with wafer-thin vegetables and meat slices. |
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These are among the most vulnerable, fragile and threatened habitats in Britain. |
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They're making boxes for the storage of fragile text, and in some cases creating new, if somewhat rudimentary bindings for old books. |
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He said that regular cleaning had been carried out, but that it had a down side in that damage could be caused to fragile books and bindings. |
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Its efficient design baffles the gas flow delivered to the ball for a gentle push against even the most fragile shells. |
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The most important thing is how to stamp his authority on the fragile coalition. |
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This is undeniably an acutely fragile financial environment, where problems in one market can quickly transfer to other markets. |
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We use the barn and we keep the more fragile ones in our homes but we want to build proper kennels and a cattery. |
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Needless to say, after more than a decade of internecine strife, all this faddish Conservative unity is somewhat fragile, not to say illusory. |
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Some areas at the Tate were inexplicably illuminated at the low candlepower reserved for the most fragile old-master drawings. |
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Our voice can encourage a fragile senior to get a flu shot or pneumococcal vaccine. |
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A key challenge in molecular electronics is making electrical contacts to the fragile molecules, chemical chains that are easily damaged. |
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Human beings suffered terribly, as did songbird populations, old-growth forests, fur seal colonies, and fragile watersheds. |
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In my fragile state, however, I felt like I was the beneficiary of a world-shaking magnanimity. |
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The pure gold was wrought to form fragile golden leaves and dainty roses on a vine. |
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In the Anaspidea there is a tendency for parapodia to enlarge and, together with the mantle, to enclose the fragile shell. |
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This is a cinema of spatial oppositions, with fragile coastline and the dry heart. |
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A eunuch hurried into the room with a long-sleeved silk tunic and a rose-colored mantle, carrying them with great care, as if they were fragile. |
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The storyline of the opera focuses on the heart-rending love story between the poet Rodolfo and the seamstress Mimi, a fragile but resolute girl. |
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The fabric was heat sealed down onto the fragile silk, and the edges of each patch were neatly tucked under the velvet ribbon. |
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Carved from tweneboa, a Ghanaian cedar tree, the drums have fragile skins and tuning pegs. |
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Antonio has produced ceramic containers to symbolise this, the containers are at once delicate and fragile, battered and worn, but also sturdy and durable. |
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But the flower I lifted from the table was fresh and fragile and filled the air with perfume. |
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Firefox no longer has its moral high-horse, and that leaves its fragile state without anyone to resuscitate it if flatlines. |
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Then he carefully pulls the book from the shelf, cradling its delicate pages, its fragile spine in his palms with the same tenderness lavished on a newborn baby. |
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Petunia flowers are fragile though and all the heavy rain had rather decimated an enormous hanging basket full of them that hangs on the side of the car port. |
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We always conjectured that having no male role model, and this constant shifting at such an early age, probably left Helen a rather fragile, mentally delicate creature. |
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So while he comes out looking like the hapless victim of wilful misinterpretation, Carol is portrayed as mentally fragile and misguided, if not downright crazy. |
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Many of the artists, most particularly Vuillard, painted these in distemper and left them unlined and unvarnished, making them more fragile than oils on canvas. |
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Only that link can effect the enormous changes needed and thwart the dark forces of intolerance that today threaten the fragile freedoms of the South. |
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The castle, she gasped and then so imprisoned her breath, to the shallow confines of her fragile chest. |
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Avoid prickly leaves like holly or ones that are extremely fragile. |
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Most people have a kind of inbuilt mechanism that enables them to maintain a steady confidence in their own opinions and beliefs, but mine is more fragile than that. |
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Clearly, in order to preserve the more fragile and complexly articulated examples, only five masks were wired to move, and their gestures were simple. |
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Fino and manzanilla are the most fragile of the sherries, but if you keep them refrigerated, they should be fine for cooking for a couple of weeks. |
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Millie is 15, a frightened, fragile girl, working in a forced-labor ammunitions factory in Radom, an industrial city in Poland. |
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Steve's neck, fragile and brittle from a trapped nerve, had kinked badly when it absorbed the impact from the piledriver, and Steve fell to the mat, paralysed. |
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These must be pretty fragile things in modern Britain if they really can be so easily endangered by a handful of foxhunting chaps armed with nothing more than some brass neck. |
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Louis has a fragile quality combined with a steely determination. |
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No mall store could create a thing of such simple, fragile concinnity. |
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Yesterday, after 36 hours of volatile discussions, a jirga or traditional council, including 100 different groups had reached a fragile agreement. |
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Could being accused of filching a fragile old lady out of her pennies spell the end for Nicolas Sarkozy? |
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Priss nearly rocketed right through the ceiling at the sudden and abrupt sound of a fragile object crashing onto hard, uncarpeted floor and breaking into pieces. |
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The numbers are decreasing with every passing year, their writing and painting are gradually fading out, their pages have become fragile and brittle. |
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The lacrimal bones are the smallest and most fragile of the cranial bones. |
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Enoki mushrooms are pale and fragile, with slender stems and tiny caps. |
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With a little planning and preventive measures, you can avoid the common sun and surf damage of faded colour, fragile, brittle or dry hair and yucky split ends. |
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At once monumental and fragile, it brought to mind the jury-rigged shacks constructed from cast-off materials found in every township or slum area. |
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This family is fragile enough without you pulling a prima donna on us. |
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As for the indigenous people, a small fraction were better off, but most were uprooted from their traditional lands whose fragile ecosystems had been destroyed. |
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When I entered the Lisieux basilica, I felt small and fragile. |
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The frail girl cooed in a soft voice that matched her fragile figure. |
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It also, with hindsight, awakens us to how fragile our governments are. |
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The precipitating cause of a child with normal, though fragile, binocular function developing a squint has often been considered to be a systemic illness. |
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Standing on the edge of the Burfell volcano, you realize what a fragile construct modern civilization is. |
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It is a world where nobody aspires to anything lofty, noble, or daring, and where nobody must love another when such love is fragile, mysterious, and hard. |
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In the fragile and apocalyptic early church, penance was conceived as a public reconciliation, necessary to the very existence of the congregation. |
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It's about the delicate fabric of the universe and how our fragile insides crumble when that fabric is torn. |
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