Sentences with phrase «at fragile moments»

It will also not escape unnoticed that this trial conveniently helped the US and UK achieve an important geopolitical goal: the removal of Charles Taylor from West African soil at a fragile moment in Liberia's post-conflict recovery in 2006.

Not exact matches

What you see is a very densely connected, fragile system that could collapse at any moment.

The conservative wing of the church is itself a fragile coalition, including those who lean in a catholic direction, those who are card - carrying charismatics, those inclined in an Anabaptist direction, and those who are really pragmatists at heart but for the moment lean to conservatism out of convenience and traditional piety.

I do not want to imply that such changes are any more than incipient and fragile at the moment.

Atheists will always latch on to whatever flimsy excuse they can come up with at the spur of the moment to support their own desire to continue to be their own little emperor of their own little fragile life.

But, agreeing with Jeremy, not everyone can afford this risk, because safety is just so critical in some cases, and some people are too fragile at the moment to endure more hurt.

We stared at the coconut shell on the floor for a moment or two, in disbelief that the coconut was so fragile.

Overall, I've always been intrigued by the idea of a Wilshere — Ramsey central midfield but in reality, it will be impossible to implement at this moment as the team around them is completely fragile and they just don't have the correct mentality or skill set to become good in those roles at the highest level.

I can't believe any team, especially one as fragile as we are at the moment, would go into any game with that attitude.

1 on 1 with the likes of sane and sterling up against our fragile rb and lbs at the moment is a battle well lose hence the dms being on it and everywhere.

Change of government Most worryingly for Brown, 58 per cent of voters believe it is time for a change in government, whilst only 36 per cent believe the economy is too fragile at the moment to have a change now.

But they came at a particularly fragile moment for the local GOP, and all but broke its hold on power in November.

Sometimes deeply personal and often at least as dramatic as they are funny, they don't belong in the same box as CBS's The Big Bang Theory or HBO's Veep, whose laugh - out - loud moments aren't nearly as fragile.

But she invests the role with a fragile intensity as if she is experiencing a bad dream, and has one wonderful moment when her eyes gaze adoringly at her young son who has been strategically placed in the courtroom,» wrote Michael Billington in a review in the Guardian.

Upon arrival at a beautiful, isolated house, Ethan and Sophie are both open to reconciliation, yet it's obviously a fragile thing that could smash into a thousand pieces at almost any moment.

I think the invention let me shine at the moment, is very novel, but I consider is security problems, see this cellular phone models feel very fragile, standby time length, the guarantee period this kind of problem, I always feel standby time is considered the first cell phone

The exhibition Alexander Calder & Fischli / Weiss at Fondation Beyeler focuses on the fleeting, precarious and exhilarating moment of fragile balance as expressed through the works of Calder and Fischli / Weiss in the early - and late - twentieth century, respectively.

«If the cable is true, more than just doing business with an indicted war criminal, Lloyd's could be in some sense contributing to instability and mistrust in Sudan at the most fragile moment in its history,» warned Palmer.

At this moment, 1,459 satellites orbit Earth — including 19 that are part of the NASA fleet keeping a watchful eye on this dynamic, fragile planet.

Law firms should perhaps remember that the original purpose of «war chests» was to hire mercenaries; rootless, often amoral combatants who would fight until the war was over and then disappear, with a serious risk their fragile loyalty would desert at an inconvenient moment during the fighting.