11.   Given the fragile state of the business, the only surprise is that more hospitals do not close.

12.   Given the fragile state of the global economy, such a move would be psychologically devastating to world markets.

13.   However, Paladin traces his fragile state of health to a pesticide spray used to kill wasps discovered in his Ferndale classroom.

14.   However, UN Security Council diplomats say there is consensus that whatever the council does should be unanimous, given the fragile state of Middle East peace.

15.   It was a game that exemplified the fragile state of both teams, weakened by key injuries and the burden of playing below expectations.

16.   Lomasney has become accustomed to listening sympathetically to stories of clients in fragile emotional states.

17.   One excuse may have been the fragile state of the rest of the world economy.

18.   She spends most of the first scene in harried exegesis of her fragile state to a not terribly sympathetic counselor.

19.   Spielberg apparently thought that Barrymore, in a particularly fragile state about the breakup of her marriage, needed a little coddling.

20.   The fragile state of Middle East peace will be a top priority for the new security team.