Sentence examples for only a fragile from inspiring English sources

They portray the returning Vietnam veteran as an isolated individual who had only a fragile connection to the rest of American society.

John O'Brennan, director of European studies at NUI Maynooth, warned the committee on Wednesday that there was only a "fragile majority" on the yes side.

The Tory leader has denied that his party would make "swingeing cuts" in the 2010-11 financial year after official figures last week showed only a fragile economic recovery.

Some of his aides were preparing to argue that he may need to stay if Cameron had only a fragile majority and there was a possibility of a second election.

Psychologists point to a pre-logical stage of thinking sometimes referred to as "magical consciousness", a phase of neurological development where there's only a fragile sense of the gap between animate and inanimate, benign and malignant, cause and effect.

Margaret Helfand, the 2001 president of the American Institute of Architects, considered the designs too timid, saying they bore only a fragile connection to the rest of the site, the neighborhood and city.

According to this account "online processing of body-related multisensory information in the brain is more like ongoing puzzle solving of which the normally experienced embodied self-location is just a fragile and only temporarily stable solution, which is a setting that is naturally suited for the Bayesian approach to sensory information processing" [17].

The transition from unusual experience to delusional belief would be facilitated if, as our results suggest, body image can be explained away such that it is merely a fragile and only temporarily stable solution, which is hostage to the probabilistic workings of sensory integration rather than the other way around.

With Brazilian markets in free fall, he warned that removing him would only hurt a fragile economy.

Voters weighed Mr. Simitis's proven, stolid experience against their yearning for new blood after nearly 20 years of Pasok rule, interrupted only by a fragile New Democracy government from 1990 to 1993.

The killings are rooted in old rivalries and are tied to cattle rustling — thousands of Lou Nuer cattle were said to have been stolen in January — but the violence has been fueled by weapons left over from Sudan's civil war, which lasted decades and was ended only by a fragile peace agreement reached in 2005.