The age bracket of 65 and beyond is often fragile and the most likely in need of a multitude of "unnecessary tests" (check for heart attacks, check for blood clots, check for prostate cancer, check for pneumonia, check for stroke, check for cancer, check for cataracts, check for broken hip, check for chest pain, check for bleeding ulcer).
"I don't think we will survive another thousand years without escaping beyond our fragile planet.
We will at some point have to escape both beyond our fragile planet and our fragile nature.
Over the last two years, much has been made in Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East of the four accused being members of Hezbollah, the Shia militia which holds significant sway in Lebanese affairs and, increasingly, beyond the fragile state's borders.
Beyond the fragile health of her mother, she would fixate on her terminally ill grandmother or a little sister who has battled Lupus for much of her life or the toll on a hard-working father who began his 27-year career at General Motors on the assembly line.
The Isaiah vision of peace requires us to imbue our leaders with the capacity to see and act beyond the fragile human constructs in which most of us live.
It's hushed and fragile beyond belief, yet prick your ears and you'll hear a song that dares to tackle issues as complex as paedophilia and suicide.
For one thing, it is there but not there: almost everything under his name in the show is a reproduction of an original either fragile beyond use or gone.
Yet the attacks jangled the nerves of both Syria's friends and foes across the Arab world.The spectre of a sectarian war spiralling out of control and beyond borders, undoing fragile countries such as Lebanon and Jordan, is forcing Western governments into ever more anguished bouts of soul-searching.
