Sentence examples for Fragile standing from inspiring English sources
They know their ostracized place and stand at the ready to prove their point as any show of weakness on their part would damage their already fragile standing.
In 1970, an incident exposed the fragile standing of the bürgerlich Kasner family.
Neil Caesar, president of the South Carolina affiliate's board, said the action would damage the organization's already fragile standing in South Carolina.
And while the governor of the central bank issued just such a warning this week, more cuts in an economy already struggling to grow will further diminish the already fragile standing of Prime Minister Brian Cowen.
And there was the knowledgeable audience — theater entry was free, which is perhaps itself a sign of the form's fragile standing with the public — shouting approval and applauding enthusiastically.
A seemingly fragile individual standing 1.61 metres (5 feet 3 inches) tall and weighing just 48 kg (106 pounds), Kazankina made an international impression with her fortitude and speed during a string of victories in the summer of 1976.
The necessary conditions for dictatorship, Atwood noted, include the shutting down of independent media, which mutes the expression of contrary or subversive opinions; writers form part of the fragile barrier standing between authoritarian control and open democracy.
"The idea was to picture them in a very fragile way and standing in gestures that do not exist nowadays, gestures from the past," he says, laying out a row of larger photos.
The fragile one standing alone at the edge of the park, watching the Atheist Bus roll jauntily past.
Kogălniceanu and his supporters criticized Rosetti and others who again pushed for universal (male) suffrage, and argued that Romania's fragile international standing did not permit electoral divisiveness.
"I'm standing on fragile ground when I say this," began one student, sounding a bit tentative, straining to draw a connection between the writings of Primo Levi and Czeslaw Milosz.
