Vodafone's advisers worry that the episode has damaged its fragile support among German fund managers and retail investors, who together hold a third of Mannesmann.
In a government with a rather fragile parliamentary support, Mr Ecevit gets listened to.
In surveys asking whether Mr Clinton is honest, or shares Americans' values, the president's support is fragile.
Resistance to austerity and reforms may grow, especially if a deep recession undermines Mr Monti's fragile cross-party support.
Business has been picking up in January, he adds, but Mr. Byrne is skeptical about how long that can last when unemployment is still high and government is still helping to support the fragile economy.
His party, which for ten months has been voting in support of India's fragile 13-party coalition government without being a part of it, has withdrawn its support and so precipitated a political crisis (see article).
The latter would continue support for the fragile economy while the former would provide relief for savers who have suffered minimal interest rates for over four years now.
Yet the prime minister, the third in two years of DPJ-led government, has few alternatives other than to put his fragile popularity on the line in support of free trade.
This has angered the Congress, which lends support to Gowda's fragile 13-party government.
Mr Gujral runs a fragile minority coalition government that depends for survival on the support of the Congress party, which has long ruled India.
The recovery in the economy since mid-2009 has been slow and fragile and, in my opinion, in need of the support the Fed has given it.
FORBES: Allow Interest Rates To Rise While Keeping Monetary Policy Accommodative
Charles Avenue, they've been among the biggest boosters of the Big Easy's recovery from Hurricane Katrina, lending their support to a variety of community projects with goals ranging from restoration of fragile coastal wetlands to education and economic development.
Another problem is that even if voters could somehow be convinced to support big cuts, raising taxes (or cutting spending) significantly right now could thrust the fragile economy back into recession.
Again the national security strategy proposes a new departure, again a lesson learnt from recent conflicts ranging from Rwanda and Bosnia to Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia: to create a standby international civilian capability so that for fragile and failing states we can act quickly and comprehensively by combining the humanitarian, peacekeeping, stabilisation and reconstruction support they need.
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