Theirs is a Christian community, centered around faith and church, but these prove frail defenses against early death, heroin addiction, economic buffetings and family breakups.
I could see that he was eagerly prepared, if only for the sake of the argument, to knock down whatever frail defenses of divinity I might set up in the way of flower bells and sunset touches.
We looked very frail defensively.
CROATIA 3, IRELAND 1 In Poznan, Poland, Croatia took advantage of a frail Ireland defense to take control of its difficult group, getting two goals from Mario Mandzukic at rainy Municipal Stadium.
General Jaruzelski, now 78 and in frail health, was defense minister in December 1970 when troops shot demonstrating workers in the Baltic port cities of Gdansk, Gdynia and Szczecin.
The defense lawyers followed that with another motion on Monday morning contending that Mr. Marshall, 89, had become too frail to go to prison.
Despite the self-pity and the self-loathing, he still manages a vigorous defense of himself as the frail remnant of a once robust species, the last of the "old stock" produced by "the old Holland".
For the last week, a frail Carter, now 20, sat quiet and still on the defense bench as prosecutors called old high school classmates and teammates to the stand and tried to use her own text messages against her.
And Mary Steenburgen has the potentially interesting role of a ruthless, sarcastic defense attorney determined to wear down a now-frail Andrew when he gets to the courtroom.
