Bhatia, who grew up in Bangalore, points to the city's fraying infrastructure and traffic logjams.
Telomeres protect the chromosomes, much like the plastic tips on shoelaces keep lace from fraying.
Unsurprisingly, tempers are fraying as governments struggle to find ways to protect their own.
Fewer than 8% of applicants get invited to Y Combinator headquarters for a nerve-fraying interview.
The silken threads of mutual presence would be thinned to the point of fraying.
Come spring, the accord on the single currency between government and opposition may be fraying.
On the streets the - up until now - extraordinary patience of the Spanish is fraying.
The run-up to next year's five-yearly NPT review conference offers a chance to bolster the fraying anti-proliferation regime.
The investment concept for long haul rails was a play on export coal markets, now fraying at the edges.
Nonetheless, this time it may take more than just a bit of reassurance to patch up fraying Franco-Turkish ties.
While there haven't been wholesale defections among Republicans, support for the president's Iraq policy is fraying around the edges.
These days, both the public and private ends of this arrangement are fraying badly, and gaps are opening up.
Korean marriages are fraying as spouses cheat on each other through video chat.
The fallout of empire may include the fraying of the union (because the lost colonial opportunities bound Scotland in).
Now that the consensus is fraying, Texas (say) will not be required to recognise a gay marriage made in Massachusetts.
Asiaweek has been recording the fraying relationship between Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and his deputy Anwar Ibrahim since 1996.
Nerves are fraying as attempts to restructure American Airlines into a viable, freestanding company through the bankruptcy process drag on.
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It contains some fraying papers, a comb, a tooth brush, a tube of tooth paste, a towel and some fading family pictures.
Although relations at the very top of government are extraordinarily close, other ties have been fraying noticeably in the past ten years.
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Some feet are bare, others shod in fraying sneakers, boots, rubber sandals.
Blue-collar voters are sticking with him, but the white collars are fraying.
Coach Bo Johansson's fraying nerves were at least spared in the play-off against Israel where Denmark's taste for the mercurial was again in evidence.
That system, or what passes for a system, is fraying at the edges and gold becomes a hedge and some kind of insurance policy.
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At least the divisions are now explicit. (And Planned Parenthood seems to be doing OK.) But the fraying of civil society continues apace.
The fraying tempers do not augur well for the faint hope that still exists of launching a new round of multilateral trade talks this year.
Also fraying their nerves is the ongoing volatility in stock prices.
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One reason is that the crisis is also fraying Europe's politics.
If nerves are fraying now, imagine the angst if unemployment tripled.
There is an e-mail for inquiries, but by now I've been online for hours, wasting time and fraying my nerves over products that I can't buy.
Embattled premier George Papandreou's slender majority in parliament was fraying.
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