Sentence examples for fragile grounds from inspiring English sources

Sukarno's Guided Democracy stood on fragile grounds due to the inherent conflict between its two underlying support pillars, the military and the communists.

SEAN -- It's fragile ground.

Montross describes her struggles to tread this shifting, fragile ground.

My consciousness was fragile ground now, as thin as forming ice.

Even those admitted can only use a narrow walkway, rather than tread on the fragile ground.

When I use the word, I feel certainty even if that certainty stands on fragile ground.

It can also overwhelm the very sites it is designed to protect with all the less-savory aspects of mass travel, from chain hotels and restaurants to the impact of thousands of sport-shoed feet treading on fragile ground.

"As long as both sides were willing to work toward reunification, but without a timetable, there was fragile ground for mutual trust," said Ma Ying-jeou, the mayor of Taipei and a Nationalist leader.

"I'm standing on fragile ground when I say this," began one student, sounding a bit tentative, straining to draw a connection between the writings of Primo Levi and Czeslaw Milosz.

Visits to the site are closely supervised - ministers and presidents have to seek special permission and special footwear to tread on the fragile ground where the 1,500 year old lines are cut.

"We don't presently have machines that can climb steeply inclined fragile ground, and this work suggests new ways to build machines that can," says Daniel Koditschek, an engineer at the University of Pennsylvania who was not involved with this work but who develops legged robots for desert explorations.