The goal was the least Fulham deserved but the visitors gave warning shortly after of how fragile a single-goal lead can be.
In the aftermath of the Challenger disaster, it became transparently obvious that the United States could ill-afford to depend virtually entirely upon so fragile a system as the space shuttle for its access to space.
Hitting a fragile economy with a one-two punch of less spending and more taxes will send it into a recession at least as deep as the one that sent unemployment skyrocketing in 2008.
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Yet business's new enthusiasm for clean energy is a fragile green shoot in a dark landscape.
Despite this, and as negotiations dragged on, the economy reached a fragile stability even without a Fund agreement (see article).
Even in Florida cities that were starting to see a fragile housing recovery, a relatively distant environmental catastrophe was enough to tip the market in the opposite direction.
The recent surge in gas prices has touched a raw nerve for many around the country, reminding us of an economy that is increasingly uncertain for the middle-class, a growing addiction to oil that draws us ever closer to dictators and despots, and a fragile global position with a climate that is increasingly out of balance.
She had a long, fragile neck and a willowy dancer's body that drooped with sadness.
For a business with a fragile business model, sending a suggestion of your own obsolescence is a dangerous idea.
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But Zaire's best hope, albeit a fragile one, lies in a fresh start.
"That adds up to a fragile situation, " says a U.S. official.
She appears flinty but fragile, a danger to others, surely, and perhaps to herself.
Clad in dark colors and thick-framed glasses, he greeted me with a fragile handshake and sotto voce on a late afternoon in early November.
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Job growth has slowed steadily since March, reminding investors, and job seekers, that recoveries typically evolve in fits and starts and that business and consumer confidence remain fragile as a result of that weak labor market.
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My gut feel, which is far as I think we can take it on the numbers available, is that the iron ore price is more fragile than a look at purely steel demand would show us.
She has kept a fragile peace, and launched Liberia on a fast-track economic recovery.
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Yet at the center of the group was a fragile-looking, diminutive woman in a crisp white shalwar kameez, a neat black jacket, and heavy tortoiseshell spectacles, named Asma Jilani Jahangir.
Achieving a temporary ceasefire, even a partial and fragile one, is a necessary though insufficient condition for the road map to proceed.
Would a big cut in government spending send our already fragile economy into a tailspin?
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He was America's secretary of defence during the Gulf War in 1991, when he played a key role in maintaining a fragile and fractious coalition of Arab states long enough to achieve a modicum of victory.
Rolls-Royce, for instance, had to put up with investors dismissing it as a fragile maker of jet engines while it was in fact transforming itself into a global engineering, energy and services group.
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It's a fragile peace because the underlying issue that sparked weeks of violence has not been settled - a Shiite power struggle between Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
As Nassim Nicholas Taleb describes it in his new book Anti-Fragile: Things that Gain from Disorder (Random House, 2012), it creates a fragile system that does not scale, and suffers from adverse market changes.
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Latvala's lead of almost 40 seconds always looked a fragile one with the Finn expected to lose handfuls of time to his nearest rivals as a result of being the first driver to tackle Sardinia's sand-topped stages.
Marshall's trickery was a constant threat to a fragile Wednesday defence in the second half, and when he combined expertly with Madine to force a corner, Michalik was on hand to thunder in a volley from inside the penalty area.
Fed Chairman Bernanke warned Dodd that financial markets are in what he called a "quite fragile condition" and that absent a plan they would certainly get worse.
The spaces offer room for perhaps two people comfortably but are said to be best visited alone. (The room at the Phillips, a former storage closet, is 6 feet wide by 7 feet deep and 10 feet high.) "There's a feeling you get inside the space that can't really described, " says Mr. Laib, a diminutive, almost fragile-looking man with a voice barely above a whisper.
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It said that against a background of fragile recovery in manufacturing, business needs a breathing space to allow tentative signs of improving conditions to take a firmer hold.
For all the reasonably robust performance so far, there is a fragile feeling in the air.
Demand for Cuban cigars rests partly on mystique, and mystique is a fragile thing.
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