1.   Bosnia lies at the very heart of Europe next door to many of its fragile new democracies and some of our closest allies.

2.   But just as important, they are figuring out how to tend to shattered families and mend fragile democracies.

3.   For a fragile democracy such as Paraguay, the administration rebuke could have proven disastrous, and not just for the country.

4.   Increasing hardships in Russia now threaten both economic reforms and a still fragile political democracy.

5.   Mitra became a political ally of Aquino, who presided over the turbulent transition to a still fragile democracy.

6.   The Carter Center has worked to nurture fragile democracies, but Carter said U.S. government support for democracy around the world needs to be much greater.

7.   The trend is dangerous for fragile Latin democracies, contributing to the personalist rule that has plagued the continent.

8.   They call themselves the Red Army, and they embody Clinton administration fears that violence will threaten the fragile democracy when U.S. troops pull out.

9.   Western diplomats have expressed grave worries about the influx of refugees into Albania and Macedonia, two very fragile democracies that risk being destabilized.

10.   And there, on a sun-dappled morning atop a dusty Afghan plateau, another brick in the foundation of a fragile democracy had been laid.