Sentence examples for fraught state from inspiring English sources

They are supported by Banco Santander's president, Emilio Botín, who compares the fraught state of the economy with a child's fever: dramatic, but short-lived.

This is one of the many questions asked by comic Chris Rock in this funny, incisive, eye-opener of a documentary about the complex and ideologically fraught state of black women's hair in today's US.

For almost two hundred years, Americanization in Europe has been synonymous with modernization — that's why the Statue of Liberty stands in New York Harbor, as a gift of the Third French Republic, the fraught state that appeared after Louis-Napoleon's Second Empire failed.

With Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari making a rare visit to India, the BBC's Delhi correspondent Andrew North looks at the fraught state of relations between the rival neighbours.

The carbon market is in something of a fraught state right now: aside from the embarrassing theft of millions of dollars worth of carbon credits by hackers a year ago, what the World Bank delicately refers to as "regulatory uncertainty" — ie the stalled attempts to cement a successor to the Kyoto Protocol — means that the near-term future is at best uncertain.

On the one hand, the audience for pornography and sex tech alike is beyond immense; on the other, both find themselves in a kind of perpetually fraught state of unpredictable transformation, constantly revolutionized by both technical and social changes, their business models endlessly overturned even as they slide along the spectrum between anathema and respectable.

If the image (particularly the analogic image) manifests language in one of its most condensed, self-conscious, and fraught states, the lack of anything else but that insistent drumbeat in a poem--the lack, for instance, of aphoristic rhetoric, demotic diction, hypotaxis, or conventional narrative--can quickly overbear even the most generous reader.

The issue is especially fraught in states with many rural schools.

Daily life, if uncaptioned, is a fraught and perilous state.

It is a case so well known in the state, fraught with so much emotion, and with so much potential to shape the thinking about capital punishment here, that the selection of 12 jurors and eight alternates could take six months.

"That is a politically very fraught task, because state legislators within the Assembly or Senate, they're all local politicians and they all run for office," he said.