Sentence examples for fragile societies from inspiring English sources

And it has many victims: a warming atmosphere, sullied soils and water, and fragile societies.

Many Central Europeans feared, probably rightly, that such a confrontation might tear these fragile societies apart.

Weather can hit our fragile societies much harder than we care to admit.

Critical Thinking Question: How do Howard & Donnelly respond to "Cultural Relativists" who claim that "adjustment to new norms disturbs the equilibrium of fragile societies, causing unrest and sowing division"?

"The evidence is fairly clear that sharp downward deviations from normal rainfall in fragile societies elevate the risk of major conflict," said Marc Levy of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, which recently published a study on the relationship between climate and civil war.

One of the authors of the report, Peter Schwartz, a consultant who studies climate risks and other trends for the Defense Department and other clients, said the climate system, jogged by a century-long buildup of heat-trapping gases, was likely to rock between extremes that could wreak havoc in poor countries with fragile societies.

The nuclear program is nationalistic glue for a fragile society even if it goes nowhere.

When the rain doesn't come, the bottom drops from beneath this fragile society.

In any discussion of censorship in an emerging or changing or fragile society, this story is instructive and salutary.

Arguing that too much immigration "threatens" the stability of our fragile society, we allow "them" in at our peril.

He is a socially marginal figure, a loner who defends the fragile society of the frontier without ever becoming part of it.