Besides, we knew how fragile the automated system was.

The freshwater lens of each atoll is a fragile system.

It has failed the fragile ecological systems on which we depend for survival.

Already physically spent, she worried that long hours on film sets in the cold might tax her fragile immune system.

The struggle in the already fragile judicial system has raised serious fears of an unraveling government.

But the crisis is also exacting a great price on Albania's fragile political system.

Outside the fragile system, Iraqis are left to the vagaries of the free market.

I am afraid that these financially fragile systems will not have sufficient resources to deal with a pandemic.

And when things go wrong, there's a more fragile legal system for resolving them.

His tenure did not, however, reform Italy's complex and fragile political system, which at the time claimed roughly a government a year.