1.   What limited their political weight, however, was the fragile nature of their landed wealth.

2.   At the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia, contemporary glass sculptures represent the fragile nature of liberty.

3.   But it points up the fragile nature of the global computer network, which for all its booming popularity still makes many people nervous.

4.   Certainly, their fragile nature and their rarity combine to make them more expensive than apples or oranges.

5.   Clarke has consistently pointed to the fragile nature of the recovery in manufacturing as a reason not to raise rates.

6.   Investors had expected rates to be kept at these levels for the foreseeable future, given the fragile nature of Japanese economic recovery.

7.   Nonetheless, the resolution of the issue at Dayton underscores the fragile nature of the agreement.

8.   Occasionally reality pops up and intrudes, reminds players of their fragile nature.

9.   That finding turned the monarch into a symbol of fragile nature threatened by biotechnology.

10.   The cramped solitude was a balm for her fragile nature.