They have argued that the fragile ability of fiscal institutions to collect taxes could be responsible for Latin America's low social expenditures during the 1980s and 1990s (Haggard and Kaufman 2004).
A minority of participants were information averse fearing additional choices that might disrupt their fragile ability to cope.
They viewed information as 'unsettling' with the potential to disrupt their fragile ability to cope and they preferred to focus on what lay immediately ahead of them.
Their plans, the fragile products of battered optimism, have been derailed by bureaucratic obstacles and the evacuees' own tenuous abilities to cope.
At 20 you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond 40 there are only real and fragile truthsyour abilities and your failings.
Although spatial memory in visual search seems to be relatively fragile, the ability to remember where you were in a task has also proven to be a key component in resuming interrupted computer tasks (Ratwani, Andrews, McCurry, Trafton, & Peterson, 2007; Ratwani & Trafton, 2008).
The national psyche never gets over learning that its institutions are that fragile and their ability to resist a dictator that weak.
"We scored three goals away from home and you want to win the game," Wenger said, bemoaning his fragile team's ability to undermine excellent attacking displays with the kind of amateurish defending that meant they drew a game they simply had to win.
Whichever of this uninspiring quartet wins, there is a good chance they will be kicked out again quickly given their leadership abilities, the fragile political mood and self-harming state of their party.
There's a disconnection between her appearance as an old and fragile nun and her ability to shake the French nation's collective consciousness,' said Trao Nguyen, the director of her charitable foundation.
