Some items are too fragile to display or no longer fit a museum's mission.
Their recalcitrance led Mr Chirac to conclude that they were too fragile to cope with unpopular change.
If their economies are too fragile to reschedule Greek debt, then they certainly cannot bear a messy default.
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Voters already back Labour's view that the economy is too fragile to bear such austerity, according to opinion polls.
Put simply, the current coalition is simply too fragile to get much of anything done without rubbing someone the wrong way.
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Overall, we find that reliable merchant banking is a scarce and critical resource that, when targeted carefully, is highly fragile to disruption.
Their legs are now so long that they have often become too fragile to bear the stress of sprinting and breaks are quite common.
Some objects are too fragile to be moved between the museums.
According to Dr Shamiel Jeppie, the team leader of the Tombouctou Manuscripts Project at the University of Cape Town, their condition ranges from extremely fragile to excellent.
Created in 2010 from the merger of seven troubled regional savings banks, the group was already too fragile to take the required initial hit on its mountain of troubled property assets.
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The disc was too fragile to play using a needle so the museum, along with researchers at the US Library of Congress and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, developed an alternative play-back system that used light and a 3D camera to turn its bumps and grooves into sounds.
This reflects not only Mr Saleh's lingering personal popularity, and the weight of a patronage system that extends beyond the large bureaucracy and army to tribal leaders and favoured businessmen, but also the widespread fear that the country is simply too fragile to cope with a transfer of power.
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Being made of silicon, the transistors in the drive circuitry tend to be rigid, fragile and to operate at temperatures high enough to melt the plastic display.
But what really separates Qian Hu from the many mom-and-pop businesses of the tropical-fish-farming industry is the attention paid to safely shipping such a fragile creature to customers overseas.
The bourgeoisie originally used the fragile boxes to hold snuff, fake beauty marks and hard candies.
In person, that number of visitors and page turns would have turned fragile documents to dust.
For now, policymakers are too worried about fragile demand to risk tackling the supply side of the economy.
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We disagree with the view that the U.S. expansion is fragile due to housing, mortgages or past rate hikes.
By placing aggressive bets on currencies, the argument goes, hedge funds destabilise financial markets and drive fragile economies to the wall.
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For instance, the official position on short-term capital inflows to financially fragile countries is merely to allow holding-period taxes, not to encourage them.
This is worrying, but most diplomats expect Sierra Leone's fragile peace to hold, thanks largely to the presence of 17, 500 United Nations blue helmets.
Faced with fragile access to foreign resources and little domestic potential on the books, Rome realized that offshore options had to be on the table.
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Henin won the first set easily but Jankovic took advantage of Henin's fragile serve to level, only for the top seed to win a tense deciding set.
Although Silvio Berlusconi respects Mr Mincato's business record, the Italian prime minister is under pressure from members of his fragile coalition to put one of their favourites in his place.
In the euro zone, policy makers have improvised patchwork solutions that have held the currency union together, but the risk is real that a misstep could cause the fragile stability to unravel, with potentially catastrophic consequences.
Filming in black-and-white, Hong abstracts the tense network of fragile relationships to crisp, briskly sketched lines that he adorns with bubbly and self-deprecating humor and graceful wonders (including some of the most heartbreaking snowflakes in recent cinema).
It firmed a desire to preserve the fragile natural world and to educate and inspire others, particularly the next generation of decision-makers to do the same.
Including macro-prudential policies, monetary tightening, and credit controls, QT, added to fragile economic recoveries in Europe and North America, have led to a fall in the export complex.
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There are too many people hurting in this country for us to do nothing and the economy is just too fragile for us to let politics get in the way of action.
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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.
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