Sentence examples for example of the fragile from inspiring English sources

He teases the soccer-loving Belgians in "Penalty II" (1992), replacing the net of a soccer goal with stained glass, an example of the fragile kitsch with an aura of sanctity found in quite a few Belgian households.

Doyle's memoir emerged from an oral-history project conducted by the religious-studies scholar Catherine Wessinger, who maintains that the People's Temple was an example of the "fragile" subset of millennial groups: defensive and unstable, and willing to initiate great violence in response to an outside threat.

In a few months Gome has gone from an example of extraordinary success, as it served China's pent-up consumer demand, to an example of the murky and fragile state of Chinese business.Gome is in trouble partly for reasons beyond its control: the impact of an economic slowdown on clearly chastened Chinese consumers.

That said, this is an example of how fragile the fabric of NATO feels after its Afghan adventure.

The slow pace of change in Bulgaria and the lack of convictions in high-profile corruption cases have served as a potent example of the problems of bringing fragile ex-Communist nations into the European mainstream.

One such example is the fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP) [ 25].

The events provided another example of how fragile relations between Afghans and Americans have become, and how ready Afghans angered over civilian casualties are to blame American forces in virtually any circumstance.

Hungary, in fact, is an example of how fragile democracy can be, even in the middle of Europe.

For example, the fragile region FRA3B had been characterized as a large region of genomic instability covering 500 kb [55], [56], [57], [58].

For example, the fragile X syndrome protein FMR1/FMRP contains an arginine-rich stretch that is disordered in solution but becomes ordered in presence of an RNA ligand (Phan et al., 2011).

But in another example of the gradual chiselling away of already-fragile legal precedent, some suspect the case is returning to court primarily because of its ability to have an impact on two more substantial affirmative action cases pending against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina.