Sentence examples for fragile steps from inspiring English sources

If they succeed, the designation will weaken the fragile steps toward democracy and political reform that have already been curbed in the Arab world.

As she rises to give a tour of her artwork, Mrs. Newhouse moves with fragile steps through the foyer with the marble checkerboard floor and into her small library.

But, on Sunday, Kim secretly boarded his armored train and chugged across the border with China to meet the most powerful leader in Asia, a man whose decision-making about North Korea may well shape whether the recent, fragile steps toward negotiation end in peace or in recrimination.

That might have been the end of the Panthers' season even before it began for a team that was preparing to take its first fragile steps toward contention in the N.F.L. Yet here they are, preparing to face the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl on Feb. 1 in Houston, perhaps, in part, because of Fields and Mills.

The dephosphorylation of CDC25, the expression of cyclin E, the degradation of the cyclin E-CDK2 complex, and the concentration of the transcription factor E2F were classified as the most fragile reaction steps in the G1/S checkpoint (Table 1, cluster I).

Many cities' gay villages may be fragile entities, stepping stones for urban change that bring gentrification in their wake.

Iraq's fragile democracy stepped back from the brink this week only to have Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki push it toward the edge once again.

The two sides are now participating in a U.N.-brokered peace process, though a fragile first step, a cease-fire in Hodeida, is in danger of breaking down.

"These are the brilliant, committed people taking critical-but-fragile first steps to address substantive change.

A small fragile old lady steps off the bus and breaks down in tears.

My stepfather had died the year before, and my fragile, cobbled-together step-family was just beginning its long, painful disintegration.