The economy remains fragile, but not nearly as fragile as it once was.
And he criticised the assessment of the area where the men died as "benign but fragile".
She appears flinty but fragile, a danger to others, surely, and perhaps to herself.
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But fragile politics, dodgy security and a battered oil infrastructure are deterring the investment required to boost supplies.
One conservationist said the figure showed a pleasing recovery, but a fragile one.
What will that mean for the salmon, the whales and the rest of Sakhalin's beautiful but fragile flora and fauna?
"Global economic conditions are improving but remain fragile, " he said, pointing to weak labor markets, tight credit, and depressed consumer spending.
But fragile growth at Britain's rate of 2.2% during 2002 is still a lot nicer to have than fragile growth at France's 1.7%, Italy's 1.0% or Germany's 0.5%.
Relations with Russia, meanwhile, have been civil but fragile.
"The U.S. situation is fragile: The stock market feels good, the short-run outlook is reasonably good, but it is fragile in that it depends on consistent and big imports of foreign capital, " Volcker says.
Mr Barak's coalition still has a 68-seat majority in the 120-seat Knesset, but it is fragile.
Responsibility to protect is not yet dead, but it is fragile.
Another round of the pitiless nebulizing machine, another night of waking Davis up every four hours so that the hose attached to the shoebox-sized device could deliver the misty medication that would restore his breath but rattle his fragile body.
But this optimism remains fragile, and rests largely on the outcome of several important projects.
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Her singing is fragile but fetching, her Czech accent completely convincing, and she's even a halfway decent piano player.
The power-sharing government has ended years of hyperinflation by using the US dollar, but the economy remains fragile, correspondents say.
There are bright spots out there but overall things remain fragile.
In recent weeks, respected organisations inside and outside Italy have lowered expectations for the economy, predicting not merely a savage recession, but at best a fragile recovery in 2010.
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Macedonia is fragile but has made important strides since it avoided all-out war in 2001 between its Macedonian majority and Albanian minority, which makes up about one-quarter of the population.
Fragile but sophisticated Lebanon may come nearest, despite its lethal rivalries between sect and clan and failure to get a single national army to control all its territory (see article).
But the longer the fragile newborns spent in ventilation the more elevated was the presence of inflammatory proteins capable of causing organ damage and brain disorders, according to a report in the journal Cytokine.
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Right now, the recovery is fragile, but it is moving in the right direction.
"It is a start, but it's very fragile, and we mustn't get overexcited just yet, " Middleton said.
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