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And yet, at a time of fast-melting glaciers and strange rains, of spreading deserts and rising seas, it is a frail and distant promise.

There was a baby so frail and shriveled she was clearly sick, but Ms. Mardy said she had not been able to take her for tests.

Once the banking system began to look frail, there was a boom in the sale of safes for people to keep their cash at home.

Amy, too, had a dear child named Beth, but she was a frail little creature and the dread of losing her was the shadow over Amy's sunshine.

Stricken by cancer Robson had looked frail when, in a wheelchair, he made his final public appearance last Sunday.

His mother had been a frail little woman, but he himself was as strong as any two ordinary men.

This was partly because the Chairman's frail health made it hazardous to predict when he would be in a condition to receive visitors.

With the wreck of her frail boby, Beth's soul grew strong, and though she said little, those about her felt that she was ready.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

The process of direct negotiation, resumed just a fortnight ago after almost two years in suspension, is still frail.

Grief hangs over the frail face of Bui Thi Me, a communist intellectual contemplating the deaths of three of her sons.

In one compartment, the grey hair of a sitting wartime reserve veterans, sitting beside him in a frail and sick old woman.

A frail economy ought at least to be free of price pressures but Britons have had no such luck.

Kim Jong Il came out to the Pyongyang airport to greet him, a rare sortie for North Korea's dictator even when he was less frail.

But he looked increasingly frail and thin, which looked increasingly like the effects of a spread of the initial cancer.

He said that Mao had a bad cold and was frail, but that he "was very quick on the uptake and grasped everything. "

At 85, Edwards is now too frail to give interviews, but his wife told the Nobel Foundation of his happiness at receiving the prize.

Although it is now very frail, but I believe it will certainly be able to one day into the clouds.

Dunn, a petite, frail woman, answers the door with a tiny dog in her arms.

"If you're frail you ought to exercise. Just moping won't do any good, " Chueh-min raised his head and said harshly.

The links of our new chain are frail, and barely strong enough to hold their weight, but every moment of determination thickens our resolve.

"Just a minute" , answered a frail, elderly voice.

I wipe the tears away from my eyes and bend my frail old legs down to the floor, so that I can kneel beside you.

For the moment, deterrence keeps the peace. But a peace maintained by deterrence alone is a frail thing.

In the teens, the door is made of glass, frail yet transparent. Though closed, people inside could look outside clearly, and vice versa.

Frail hopes that this might coax the government to negotiate with its enemy were swiftly disappointed.

A frail asthmatic, he took up arms with Fidel Castro's guerrillas in Cuba's Sierra Maestra.

One man, trying in his terror to escape the awful sight, stumbled against the coffin so heavily as to knock away one of its frail supports.

said the fair , frail girl to her brunette companion.

Despite her frail appearance, Jocasta Nu was known as a firebrand among the Jedi.

In the early years of the 21st century a frail old woman totters around her London home, assailed by memories that rise up unbidden.

You'd have to so abuse your body that it was basically as frail and sickly as that of an 80-year-old. Or maybe nutritionally starve it.

She described how she had wept as she contemplated the "frail old man" who had dedicated his life to his people's cause.

Cheever. Cracked ribs, broken teeth, electrical skin burns -- all on a frail old lady at the end of her life.

To be an astronaut, you must be in robust health. It is not an occupation for a frail person.

asked Heathcliff, having satisfied himself that the limbs were all equally frail and feeble.

Cinderella looked down at her frail body, and said "I wish I was young and full of the beauty of youth again" .

the frail flowers die for nothing, and the wise man warns me that life is but a dewdrop on the lotus leaf.

Even though I didn't have to take 11 pills a day, he did. I've never weighed a frail, sickly 80 pounds, but because of IT, she did.

at 40 , gray - haired and frail , he saw " a cadaver almost " when he looked at himself in the mirror.

But unfortunately the passion of the moment predominates, in the Frail Sex, over every other consideration.

How we make sense of that is the great mystery of our frail existence.

In the video, Saddam appeared defiant, although his voice sounded frail and a bit tired.

He had not appeared at public events since October 2010, and had looked increasingly frail in the weeks before the announcement.

Jobs looked frail as he appeared in his signature black mock turtleneck, blue jeans and wire-rimmed glasses.

His father was by now frail and bedridden and it fell to Edward and his sister Eunice to break the news to him the following morning.

Another model shows an old and frail bin Laden wrapped in a blanket and watching TV at his compound in Pakistan.

Through intensive rescue, she finally went out of danger, but she was extremely frail and in low spirits.

Or were they voting for her son, Rahul, the 39-year-old who some believe will take over from the frail Mr Singh before long?

She had got quite used to the frail head on the cotton pillow, the hollowed eyes, the open mouth and the high pinched nose.

Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, ?

I don't know whether your frail tears could water your dream, but what I'm clear your pain has already sabotaged undamped ardor of life.

Secondly, today's university students, most of them are the "only-child" , who are more mentally frail.

Physically he is frail and must sustain himself by imbibing magical potions of his own creation.

The frail grandmother embraced the frail dead cat, And cried all day.

But financial pressures likely forced him to agree to a new concert series while in frail health.

she had been weak and frail since Christmas, when she contracted a chest infection at Sandringham, the royal retreat in Norfolk.

Fidel, frail but back in action after his abdominal surgery, will try to block that process.

One of the privates, a little frail creature who looked older than God, had lost his tin helmet.

The kind of virtue that can be produced by guarded ignorance is frail and fails at the first touch of reality.

Due to my frail health, I cannot do anything. I can't even read a book or write anything.

Only his older sister, herself too frail to travel, was unable to be there.

Or when, in the face of these challenges, they turn for leadership to men in high places--only to find those men as frail as any others.

Arthas: The frail elves do not concern me, necromancer. Our forces are strengthened with every foe we slay.

Cradling the doll in her frail arms, she repeated over and over again, "She's exactly like my old doll, exactly like her. "

The reader, a frail creature with stubble of black hair and nearsighted eyes, began to cry.

In contrast, seasonal flu tends to kill the frail elderly.

his father would ask the frail boy, exasperated by his son's dreamy neglect of bovine care. "Is it going to be beef or dairy? "

Yet there he was, surrounded by frail patients at least four decades older.

Yet even if the dollar rally turns out to be modest, the lesson of the past week is that America's economy is not uniquely frail.

So here's the scenario the researchers propose: an already frail pharaoh, hobbling around on his cane, breaks his leg, maybe in a fall.

Afflicted with a frail body and weak eyes, while still young he determined to make himself physically strong.

The frail-looking 71-year-old would flash his trademark toothy grin as he railed against the West, Israel and women's rights.

The thread seemed almost afraid to be seen, emitting a frail, constant light as it came down to just above Kandata's head.

Perhaps it was when I held the hand of a very frail woman at the Convalescent Hospital.

A large number of the frail black-clad figures on the ships were tailors destined for the sweatshops so numerous in Victorian Sydney.

Frail but articulate, she lives in a comfortable Beijing flat with her husband, now 94, their son and daughter-in-law.

One is actually so frail that some comforting words can move us into tears, but going through the sadness, one may be reassuring by and by.

The fisherman went out in his frail craft at his own risk.

The frail bridge of time on which we tread sinks back into eternity at every step we take.

Some two weeks after the initial accident, oil has begun to wash up on the frail marshes and rich oyster beds that line Louisiana's shores.

Kim Jong-il, who was known for his love of rich food and alcohol, had been visibly frail since suffering a suspected stroke in 2008.

The peaceful passing of a very old, frail lady is not a tragedy.

My love to the sport. And I feel the need to prove that vegans are neither frail, nor skinny, nor weak!

Both your parents are increasingly frail and forgetful, but they refuse to let you help with bills and other practical matters.

Did he kill himself slowly by drinking and smoking despite knowing full well he had always been feeble and frail?

But a gift that can be grasped is merely a frail flower, or a lamp with a flame that will flicker.

He's frail but chipper, as he receives guests in his book-lined study.

Ailing leader Kim Jong-il, is thought to have suffered a stroke last summer and has appeared frail in public appearances.

I easily could imagine being more frail, wanting badly to protect this part of my body, That feeling of being vulnerable.

By all accounts, these new centenarians are far from the frail, ailing, housebound people you might expect.

she was a little woman , frail , and even sickly looking.

at the height of the sars epidemic , the majority of suspected elderly sars patients came from residential homes for frail elders.

Heidi's love is also the help of a small, weak and frail and could not walk aristocratic Miss Clara also muster the courage to live.

For a moment, he looks like a sad, frail old man.

I did not know how I do change such frail.

Love is frail at birth, but it grows stronger with age if it is properly fed. ---Ovid.

The neatly dressed communist revolutionary and former school teacher appeared frail but alert as lawyers discussed upcoming proceedings.

In the deepest frail season of life, the rain and the snow are the only warm interspersion.

Without further ado, she trod lightly but firmly across the frail bridge, and in another second had gained the heaving stone.

Underscoring Mr. Ho's frail health, Mr. Ho was hospitalized Monday for what Mr. Oldham said was a routine procedure.

G. B. Shaw Love is frail at birth, but it grows stronger with age if it is properly fed.

More is the semblance strong person, in the heart more is frail.

You are too fraIl to stand a gust of wInd. I advIse you to take more physIcal exercIses.

Each day, until he grew too frail and the slippery banks too hazardous, he would walk to the river to watch it flow.

Fidel Castro turns 80 later this month. He has appeared increasingly frail in recent years and is rumored to have Parkinson's disease.

For the real worId Max lost 15 pounds because I felt that this Max should not be strong and muscular but rather weak and frail.

Henry, a frail-looking man of fifty, was older than his robust wife Mary by 20 years.

Ms Wu, looking frail and clad in a thick pink-and-white padded jacket, barely moved except to yawn, cough or massage her forehead.

The mood degenerates repeatedly, the delegates' conference does not become frail.

Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.

It was sad to see the once-great man looking so frail .

They are bottled up, but there is only so much pressure which frail walls can take.

One evening, a family brings their frail, elderly mother to a nursing home and leaves her, hoping she will be well cared for.

Those who are merely frail, however, cannot be given free help with washing, dressing and cooking unless they are also poor.

China's state media reported the death. Mr. Qian had been frail and bedridden in recent years.

Before the trial Liz had been pictured as a frail woman dominated by her husband.

As she grew frail and feeble, instead of being a help around the house, she became a constant trial.

Western Liaoning borders the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, with the frail ecology constantly beset by droughts.

Howard: Well, you know the old saying, Pasty and frail never fail.

Having lost respect, even the frail status of a child, what else was there to lose?

Through directory, the compassionate woman found the frail wretched and timid orphan whose nickname was "little squirrel" .

He was a frail guy, but he knew what he was doing.

The country may be developing after the war, but democracy still looks frail.

Stone is particularly essential in their view. Without stone, life is incomplete, unstable, frail, tentative.

It has sabotaged the frail vestiges of regional peace, and invited disaster upon Lebanon.

With graying hair and a frail heart, you'll definitely be lonely among them. You might want to find another place to work.

Or at the most, you become a frail narcissus at the water's edge - your self-loathing, indistinguishable from your self-love.

This algorithm belongs to the frail watermark , it has the good safety performance and the high watermark capacity and practical value.

His health, however, is in doubt: He is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008, and recent photos show a frail man.

A burst of green light filled the prison room and the frail old body was lifted from its hard bed and then fell back, lifeless.

Cervical spine fusion is performed for various indications in patient populations ranging from young and healthy to aged and frail.

Originally intended to serve the "frail elderly" , the Elder Services group's typical customer is now an adult over 60 with $1m to invest.

Small balconies are not suitable for planting lotus or plum but for growing jasmine which seems frail and tender but with strong life-force.

lively describing Christian resolution, that sails in the frail barque of the flesh through the waves of the world.

A frail woman in her eighties said she too was attacked by police.

In my frail canoe, I struggle to cross the sea of desire, and forgot that I too am playing a game.

It has the good effect on reddish swelling, desquamation, tarnish and red blood streak, appropriate for frail and sensitive skin.

In my frail canoe I struggle to cross the sea of desire, and forget that I too am playing a game.

"Yeah, it's the pits, it sure is, " said Dolores, her strong arms wrapped around those frail shoulders.

Once a bon viveur, he looked frail when he appeared in parliament on Thursday.

If he has been given a terminal diagnosis, is extremely frail, or is showing signs of dementia, the issue is even more urgent.

Lunk positioned himself behind the chair, his large callused hands resting on Marlene's frail shoulders.

Mr. Tang, the court spokesman, also portrayed Ms. Gu as emotionally frail.

But the image persists of a pathetic waif, too frail for this world.

Buildings strain and crumble under deep drifts of snow. Everything is entombed. Our frail bodies struggle to survive.

That tames me in pace with its frail move.

First, he fell in love with Lyudmila, the frail, brainy daughter of a senior communist purged in the 1930s.

frail from the housetops two plumes of smoke ascended , pluming , and in a flaw of softness softly were blown.

How a simple frail woman, but brilliant intellect, can change the course of world events.

We were introduced to Cynthia Cockerne -- an elderly frail white woman who has been running the rudimentary prison education effort.

Frail, dark, beautiful, always with a headache.

Neon, the frail shoulders shake, and she was crying do, and why?

Wet and tired I settled into the back seat. Suddenly a small frail voice came from the front seat of the car. "Are you all right? "

However, because of the difference in the aims, this pacification was predestined to be frail and temporary.

And ever and again, her wandering glance reverted to the frail atom of humanity nestling by her side.

The most suitable for eating Chinese wolfberry is frail, resistance is poor. Also, must insist for a long time, every eat, can effective.

"Here's Amy, " Vogt said as he put her frail hand in mine.

But a peace maintained by deterrence alone is a frail thing.

She was the 20th of 22 children, prematurely born and frail.

Throughout the movie, every now and then we return to a frail but happy 86-year old Lomax.

There can be miracles when you believe. Though hope is frail it's hard to kill.

The frail craft rocked as he clambered in.

Ever since his recovery he has been placidly frail , yet capable of surprising endurance.

Without the frail, I can still smile happily in the presence of you.

Kim was away from public view for months and looked frail when he reappeared later, although last year he twice travelled to China.

Ashley: She's so frail and gentle and she loves you so much.

How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds!

Mr. Qian had been frail and bedridden in recent years.

But beyond the fancier bits of London, the national market still looks rather frail.

Others, including a still-frail Citigroup, are due to report shortly.

He looked increasingly frail in recent months.

In other words, when all other things are equal, the fit should fare better than the frail. This is true of economies as well as of people.

A kite too delicate to fly safely ; fragile porcelain plates ; fragile old bones ; a frail craft .

Some or all of these five old and frail men will pass away next year.

I suppose one thing that made you like him was that he was so small and frail; he aroused your instincts of protection.

We'd been warned he was a frail, withdrawn man, but when I met him he was anything but.

The old old and frail, sick, so, the Chinese traditional filial piety "shi disease" as an important content.

Ever since his recovery he has been very frail, yet capable of surprising endurance.

King Abdullah himself, believed to be 88, is visibly frail following a series of back operations.

A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and a four-year old grandson.

Kim, who was known for his love of rich food and liquor, has been noticeably frail after suffering a suspected stroke in 2008.

There can be miracles when you believe, though hope is frail. it is hard to kill.

She went with the frail body in exchange for the peaceful coexistence of the Han Hungary 2.

The time like floating clouds type has flowed, our youth frail shuttle above blue sky.

Serbian television showed footage of the 69-year-old suspect looking frail and walking slowly.

The human's heart of belief is frail, is honest also possibly canbecause of twist to own strength weak hatred.

Energy shortages continue to ravage North Korea's already frail economy.

thou has made me endless, such is thy please. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.

Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit .

after treating a disease frail , swimmy break out repeatedly .

Because I am the only son of home, the personality may be some frail, ask everyone to give advice or comments.

In recent years, Cheney has appeared increasingly frail in public.

Unlike most well-known western politicians, he didn't excel at public speaking, and in later years his voice grew increasingly frail.

weak, Easily broken, damaged, or destroyed; frail.

The frequently antibiotic-resistant Clostridium difficile causes severe diarrhoea that is a danger to the very young, old and frail.

At 8 months, when their sedentary lab mates were bald, frail and dying, the running rats remained youthful.

colored dresses only is covers up frail psychological the mask.

The book depicted him as both flawed and frail.

A frail girl stood in front of her. "I'm Sylvie. "

A frail young boy murders a stocky taxi-driver. This takes seven minutes.

All work in the shelter is now focused on one goal: keeping the frail structure intact until a massive enclosure can be slid over it.

She is gentle, sensitive, delicate and frail, like a figure of Chinese porcelain.

Meanwhile, Goku hopes to regain his strength by visiting Master Korin 's Tower, if he can climb it, exhausted and frail.

The frail duration of a flower.

Like dying in the sun , Will you hold on to me . I am feeling frail , Will you hold on to me . We will never fail .

In my frail canoe flounder must cross the sea of desire.

During seasonal epidemics, more than 90% of deaths occur in the frail elderly.

Patients needing such rehabilitation attract higher reimbursement rates from the government than those who are simply frail.

4 frail infants, repeated respiratory tract infection.

This little, frail old man, sought comfort in the past; he was bewildered by the present, and afraid of the future.

Heart, very frail, fragile products.

He was becoming frail, but loved to work as always.

But a spider's web is very frail. It is curiously wrought, but not enduringly manufactured.

The humble frail man, graphic artist, character coy, gentle nature, very ordinary at first glance.

Death is the constant reminder of how frail our existence is.

Others, including a still-frail Citigroup, were due to report after The Economist went to press (see article).

After extensive radiology treatment for throat cancer, Zhang Xinmei has been left weak and frail.

but gradually his skin became pale and waxy; he grew thin and frail.

The Sheng-Dong mining area is the main coal production area in China, this area simultaneously also is the ecology frail area.

Starts changes suddenly good frail.

He raised a frail hand and motioned to a table across the room.

If lacks it, the hair will become frail, the easy furcation , will not have the gloss.

Even frail people who've already passed their 90th birthday can add muscle mass and strength.

This frail vessel, thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.

Some frail memorial still erected nigh.

But meantime, they are actually frail in heart and need our care and support.

The frail Chen staved off hunger by drinking water.

The other one is also a frail and shortcoming man, need his protect and help?

He was a more excited lover that night, with his strange, small boy's frail nakedness.

At 8 months, when their sedentary lab mates were bald, frail and dying, the running ratsremained youthful.

Emotionally, I felt frail and weak, and I found myself avoiding social contact more and more because of this.

She lay in bed looking particularly frail.

Don't be so frail as glass.

With the economy remaining frail, the base rate looks set to stay at 0. 5% for a long time.

A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter - in-law, and four- year old grandson .

Jail life made the frail retailer avail every snail in the pail .

The frail cat was taken to the vet for treatment.

amid reports that he was looking frail.

I am ashamed to wear it, frail as I am, and it hurts me when press it to my bosom.

The condition or quality of being frail.

The sick woman's frail hands could hardly hold a cup.

Frail and slightly deaf in both ears, Danma says he is sad about the move, but he understands the reasons.

He was so frail he practically limped into the Aurum Care Centre.

He spoke with senior editor T. A. Frail by phone.

The mother seemed too young and too frail.

Sighed the fresh flower vitality frail at the same time , Marvel at flower' ultra strong vitality which in the huaxianzi keep fresh liquor .

He became frail after his illness.

The occurrenceand development of desertification is made by human irrational utilization under the frail ecology enviroment.

How thin it is, and how dainty and frail ; and how it rattles.