The phrase "a fragile base" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a weak or unstable foundation, whether literally or metaphorically.
Example: "The project was built on a fragile base, making it susceptible to failure at any moment."
Alternatives: "a weak foundation" or "an unstable base."
Where cities are economically self-sufficient, a smaller working population means a fragile base on which to balance hefty pension obligations.
But they also show what a fragile base negative voting, which in recent decades has fuelled the Lib Dems' rise, makes.
If the garment industry is a key to Chinatown's prosperity, then the rapidly expanding food industry may rest on a fragile base.
"What we're seeing is truly unprecedented". The Coloradoan explained early season snow established a "fragile base" before snow in January and February stabilized the slopes.
More than seven out of ten oppose joining the euro, almost half favour leaving the EU itself and most of those who would like to stay would also like to trim the EU's powers.This is a fragile base from which to win the euro referendum he has promised to call when the five economic tests for entry laid down by Mr Brown have been met.
"But there are reasons for skepticism about how much a Temer administration will be able to accomplish in the short term, as he comes to office with a fragile base of political support in the legislature and among the public".
Saddam Hussein's crude attempts to Islamise the country in the last decade were built on a fragile foundation based on crushing Shia opposition and building himself monumental mosques.
That's just what the doctor ordered, if, in this metaphor, a doctor is someone tasked with killing a fragile fan base one un-newsworthy transaction at a time".
Starting from a fragile electoral base — he won 24percentt in the first round of voting in April, and defeated an unelectable far-right candidate, Marine Le Pen, in the second — Mr. Macron's position can now be considered delicate, in the view of pollsters and analysts.
They included a fragile political base within his own splintered and self-destructive German People's Party, a group of centre-right liberals which supported him with reluctance even during the relatively prosperous mid-1920s when Stresemann was scoring his greatest diplomatic achievements.Stresemann was the youngest child of a lower middle-class family in Berlin.
In the Near East and North Africa, population growth, urbanization, a fragile resource base, climate change and low productivity exacerbate the fight against hunger and malnutrition.
