"I do not fear HIV as it is now understood," he explains, at one point, "a fragile, hard-to-catch virus that leads to an infection that is largely managed with drugs..
SanDisk is also pushing its scratchproof back, flash memory (as opposed to the more fragile hard-drive memory in higher-capacity players) and MicroSD card expansion slot, which can add two gigabytes of memory.
Their lives are fragile, frugal, hard.
In spite of their size, many attractions are surprisingly fragile and hard to maintain.
The fragments pulled off by Piaggio's machine were fragile and hard to read.
It is a non-homogeneous, sticky, tar-like and dark brown material when fresh, and fragile and hard when aged.
The realisation that telomeres are fragile sites, hard to replicate chromosomal regions, unveils an additional layer of complexity and suggests that telomere shortening and DDR activation may occur also during standard telomeric DNA replication.
When Anglican churches close, it is often because the vicar and flock all agree to give up the struggle; maintaining an ancient, fragile and hard-to-heat building can be too heavy a burden on a small community.
Satellites are more fragile and harder to disguise and move in predictable paths, making them easier prey.
In spare, lyrical prose, Yue and Farrow capture the fragile idyll, hard-won and precarious, of Yue's fictional counterpart, 7-year-old Little Leap Forward, and his family.
Indeed, uncertainty over his eventual succession and that of Mr Aliev is among the more significant question-marks hanging over the region.In recent months, though, Georgia and Azerbaijan have faced another serious challenge: deepening chaos, and declining Russian authority, on the northern side of the Caucasus mountains, on a scale which could wreck their own fragile and hard-won stability.
