If public accounts look increasingly fragile, the private sector hasn't improved, either.

Both projects are part of a campaign to combat the overfishing, developments and industrialisation threatening the world's increasingly fragile coastal environments.

But, having made his grand entrance, the bandleader knuckled down to some serious work, playing keyboards and harmonica (sometimes simultaneously) and singing in his high and increasingly fragile tone.

Such indicators are seized upon by those attempting to read the runes of our increasingly fragile economy.

He hit 11 boundaries in an innings of 74, the boundary count significant since his running between the wickets betrayed the increasingly fragile state of his knee.