But this fragile alliance fell apart in the 1970's.

Whatever had happened here, it was a fragile alliance.

If he pressured her, it would only damage their fragile alliance.

But the nervous arrangements for the meeting showed how fragile the new alliance could be.

And that alliance, fragile from the beginning, finally frayed to the breaking point this week.

Maintaining a core of support within such a fragile alliance requires constant attention.

They must bring no more into that fragile alliance.

But had the events of the evening torn Pai's fragile alliances apart?

Today's decision shifts the fragile federal-state alliance in a remarkable way.

The alliance, fragile from the beginning, broke apart in the following year after Gyllenstierna's death.