We're working with organizations such as the United Nations and the European Union to reach those who need help in fragile, low-income countries struggling with unstable political settlements, weak institutions and strained social contracts.
Several old axioms were reinforced that day: fantasies are fragile, contracts are paper, partners are risky, locals have power.
The planet's most burdened inhabitants will suffer once as their fragile economies contract, and again as rich nations pull up their drawbridges and retreat into protectionism.
This is especially true of football, with its large rosters, complex on-field schemes, non-guaranteed contracts, and fragile players — perhaps more than with any other sport, the fans are rooting for logos and colors.
Related: David Cameron's new cabinet lineup But unions retain an important role in speaking up for organised labour, as well as the disorganised low-paid kind, those on fragile or zero-hours contracts, those easily bullied by junior managers, who are easily bullied in turn.
An infant's immune system is very fragile and vulnerable to contracting disease without these vaccines, and given the current conditions in the country, children are at greater risk than ever if they are not vaccinated right away," added de Rooy.
First, the intrinsic uncertainty surrounding any investment project puts the borrower's ability to repay in question; second, the borrower's fragile promise to obey the contract can be more difficult to surmount.
For cell-sheet engineering, one major obstacle to sheet function is that cell sheets in suspension are fragile and, over time, will contract.
His lungs are fragile as a result of contracting tuberculosis during the 27 years he spent imprisoned for fighting the white supremacist government of apartheid-era South Africa.
President Obama and his policy team have said that there is no greater threat to the fragile American recovery than a contracting and destabilized Europe — a belief repeated on Monday.
