1.   The two countries have formed a fragile coalition.

2.   As he struggles to keep his fragile coalition together, Hashimoto could win rounds of public applause by defending and implementing such reforms.

3.   Barak, who was in London Wednesday to meet with Prime Minister Tony Blair, needs the diplomatic success to help bolster his fragile parliamentary coalition.

4.   A fragile coalition from the start, the Bryant Park ready-to-wear shows have developed a new fissure.

5.   But so far what Johnson calls a permanently fragile coalition is holding.

6.   By some counts, the fragile coalition of supporters in the House needs to gain just seven more representatives to its side for passage.

7.   But, in the current crisis, that meeting and greeting becomes critical to maintaining a fragile international coalition against terrorism.

8.   Despite their cautious remarks, both Clinton and GOP leaders conceded they cannot compromise much more without running the risk of fracturing their fragile political coalition behind their positions.

9.   First among them is that Sharon is sitting on a very fragile coalition of left and right.

10.   For Barak, faced with a fragile political coalition in his government, the summit meeting fulfills a strategy he has been urging on Clinton for several weeks.