Sentence examples for fragile ability from inspiring English sources

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.

But does this mean that educators and parents addressing the challenges of educating children with ADHD, many who saw digital toys as kids stuck in front of a screen damaging their already fragile abilities to focus, will soon be steering their charges to more game play?

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).

At 20 you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond 40 there are only real and fragile truths—your abilities and your failings.

Their plans, the fragile products of battered optimism, have been derailed by bureaucratic obstacles and the evacuees' own tenuous abilities to cope.

The national psyche never gets over learning that its institutions are that fragile and their ability to resist a dictator that weak.

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.

The Global Systemic Risk research community, with financial support from the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, is working to better understand the nature of risk, the structure of increasingly fragile systems and the ability to anticipate and prevent catastrophic consequences.