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The latest violence has underlined the fragility of the region's security.
The collapse of the bank is an ominous reminder of the fragility of the world's banking system.
The fragility of donor hearts, livers and other organs means they are usually transported by air.
A deficiency of copper can cause increased bone fragility.
Compromises must be negotiated between the different stakeholders and biomedical disciplines to achieve efficiency and accessibility in the reduction of fragility fractures.
A second compromise would be to recognize the complementary roles of public health and clinical professionals toward the common objective of preventing fragility fractures.
The nature of instability and fragility is partly what brings about the internal risk.
They explain this selective fragility as the interaction of language with the impaired non-linguistic spatial system.
Maximal fragility would exclude the possibility of an event coming in more than one version.
The result was that the fragility of their alliance with the state was pitilessly exposed.
At the same time old problems, such as the fatal connection between social deprivation and family fragility, show few signs of going away.
Clinical symptoms comprise trauma-induced skin fragility and ectodermal dysplasia affecting hair, nails and sweat glands.
