Bush's immigration piñata is indeed a fragile one.

Why does the world economy look so flimsy?

Investors collective psychology is notoriously fragile.

It will acquire flexibility and will be less brittle.

The model plane they built was fragile.

The Soviets, with their fragile legitimacy, always feared betrayal.

The banking system remains unhealthy and fragile capital markets are dying.

North and South Korea must begin the work of reconciliation and community building on their own initiative, as France and Germany did in 1952.

In this fragile global environment, has America become a beacon of hope?

This is why it needs a concert of powers to sustain its fragile stability.

I stand in the middle of the street, contemplating the brittle normalcy around me.

It is at moments such as these that we realize how thin a veneer our civilization may be.

This is a key concern because, notwithstanding recent reforms, the banking system remains fragile.

But that is the challenge that a fragile and unbalanced global economy faces in 2012.

Notwithstanding the euphoric resurgence of global equity markets over the past two years, the world economy remains fragile. What markets seem to have forgotten is that post bubble, post financial crisis recoveries tend to be anemic.

At least since 1989, the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party s monopoly on power has been fragile.

The last thing that a fragile global economy needs now is another round of peak oil prices.

Notwithstanding the euphoric resurgence of global equity markets over the past two years, the world economy remains fragile.

But as answers begin to emerge, we will learn much more about the health of Nigeria s fragile democracy.

In fact, China has been damming most international rivers flowing out of Tibet, whose fragile ecosystem is already threatened by global warming.

Coca farmers and producers slash and burn forests, polluting streams with toxic chemicals and damaging fragile ecosystems.

Moreover, academics and researchers continue to provide data and studies about the dangers of palm oil cultivation for the fragile Amazon ecosystem.

Moreover, the government has encouraged the leaders of Bosnia s Republika Srpska to threaten to hold their own referendum on separation from a still fragile Bosnia.

But in a shock prone world, it is a fragile system, because it precludes anything but modest countercyclical policy.

But in the developing world, immediate economic needs often override long term imperatives, and protecting a fragile environment is rarely a priority at the national level.

Ailinn Solomons was a wild haired, quiveringly delicate beauty with a fluttering heart from a northern island village more remote and rugged even than Port Reuben.

That does something to your soul .We all came back humanitarians .We saw how fragile our planet is and yet how beautiful.

The simultaneous scaling back of the local government system, along with the divisive politics of coalition governments in Pakistan s fragile democracy, continues to undermine implementation of the polio eradication program.

At a time of growing concern about climate change, Europeans should be made aware of the long term destruction done to a precious and fragile habitat for the sake of a short term high.

The undersea pipeline will cost three times as much as a new pipeline along existing land routes, undermines the energy security of Germany s eastern neighbors, and threatens the Baltic Sea s fragile ecosystem.

However, blogger Arhopala Bazaloides at Karela Fry points out that this step by the MOEF will not be enough to protect and save Narcondam as rampant tourism related anchorage as well as other factors are also creating threat to it's fragile ecology.

Several international organizations and media have voiced their concern of Macedonia's already fragile democracy taking a turn for the worse as the wiretapping scandal continues to escalate.

In the eyes of Western (including Japanese) political leaders, it has never amounted to more than a small, fringe country whose economic failings made it appear to be poised perpetually on the edge of self destruction.

Much of the rest of the world would prefer a stronger dollar, fewer capital inflows with a carry trade flavor, and less need to manage their own currencies appreciation to avoid adverse consequences for their economies competitiveness. In short, the sort of monetary policy now being practiced for a fragile economy like the US will cause distortions in the global economy that require policy responses in many other countries.

In short, the sort of monetary policy now being practiced for a fragile economy like the US will cause distortions in the global economy that require policy responses in many other countries.

First, by any number of measures, Russia is at best a thin, electoral democracy, and some argue it represents a new type of a hybrid regime that might be called contested authoritarianism.

Child labor was abolished throughout the developed world, working hours and conditions became more humane, and a social safety net was put in place to protect vulnerable workers and stabilize the (often fragile) macroeconomy.