But the tensions in his own party could be even more testing.For the PD's ever-fragile unity has been utterly shattered by the presidential election.
Third, Merkel's decision rips the very engine out of the entire integration idea: that Germany, Europe's historically problematic core country, underwrites the ever-fragile idea of European politics transcending the merely national.
Both blasts had immediate, and possibly long-lasting, impacts, threatening the ever-fragile peace process between Israel and the Palestinians and the security of American forces and international peacekeepers stationed inside Iraq.
The impact on the ever-fragile theatrical economy has been much discussed, as has the larger influences on businesses that benefit from the thousands of theatergoers who flood Midtown before and after shows.
They and other ethics-issue writers concentrate on what the collisions of head-to-head play do to the ever-fragile instrument called the brain.
There is some unevenness in the rest of the cast but more than enough strengths to effectively fill out this play, at once sprawling yet subtly symmetrical, that has so much to say about the ever-fragile state of the human condition.
If a great public event happens, we must care about it only insofar as it traumatizes the ever-fragile poetic self--the contemporary minor poets who have written for Poetry After 9/11: An Anthology of New York Poets (2002), seem to have learned this lesson well.
With more than a million Syrian refugees now in Lebanon, a country of only 4.5 million, and the concomitant strain on the country's economy and ever-fragile security situation, the political crisis in Lebanon could have rippling effects across the region. .
Trump's message is particularly painful because that European dream is looking ever more fragile.
But older waste-storage facilities still harbor dangerous material and, as building materials age, are ever more fragile and accident-prone.
