The process is new-born and fragile and has yet to begin the real business of negotiation.
Given Japan's near-record unemployment and fragile recovery, they will have trouble finding new jobs and clients.
The CBI employers' group predicted a "slow and fragile" return to growth in spring next year.
The eurozone crisis has made the EU look more divided and fragile than it has for decades.
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It is worth noting that there is a group of countries that are both middle-income and fragile.
Debt burdens remain huge, and fragile banking sectors are making it hard for businesses to get credit.
For Italians, used to endless political squabbling, tortuous negotiations and fragile compromises, this businesslike approach is a revelation.
The problem, apparently, was that the large and fragile proteins were not readily absorbed into the nervous system.
However, donors and States must now focus on the education of children living in conflict-affected and fragile states.
HCPs, have become the tool of choice within the Endangered Species Act for preserving wildlife and fragile ecosystems.
Both of these reduce growth and make our economy more volatile and fragile.
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"The situation on site remains unresolved and fragile, " BP said in a statement.
She became frail and fragile, displaying "childlike" behaviour, and developed a nervous laugh.
The lower notes of his saxophone embody a powerful, penetrating edge, while the upper ones can be floating and fragile.
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Hoguet sees it as a good long-term bet, though the political risk is significant in a young and fragile democracy.
Yaokwa and the local biodiversity it celebrates represent an extremely delicate and fragile ecosystem whose continuity depends directly on its conservation.
Now much of this has to do with my sobriety and with my new-found (and fragile, I see) mental health and well-being.
Thirteen islands make up this windswept and fragile refuge in the Gulf of Mexico, called the Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuge.
If this continues it will represent a massive tightening of monetary policy at a time when the recovery is weakening and fragile.
Achieving a temporary ceasefire, even a partial and fragile one, is a necessary though insufficient condition for the road map to proceed.
Icelanders thought their institutions too small and fragile for the free market.
These rituals, as much as the deliberations inside parliaments and law courts, are what help to hold our fractious and fragile societies together.
We did, in fact, point out in advance that things were going wrong in the region, particularly with property booms and fragile banks.
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But there are also some services that stand somewhere in the middle: private provision is an option, but competition is limited and fragile at best.
He says Motorola is working on new opportunities in devices to get past limited battery life and fragile devices that break when you drop them.
This demonstrates just how unregulated and fragile our financial system is.
Albania, Macedonia and Bosnia (remember Bosnia?) are all poor and fragile.
The recovery was under way, but the commentators all said it was wobbly and anemic and weak and fragile, and then you got the tax cuts.
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