Brittle Britain

I ain't so brittle.

It's got a brittle star hitching a ride.

Hmm... she's pretty, in a... in a brittle way.

In a brittle way. Has she, uh... you know.

They are quite brittle. So you've only got a part of one there.

In Syria, it seems inevitable that protest may soon crack the regime s brittle political immobility.

And there are brittle stars that produce bands of light that dance along their arms.

I'm about to snap like a brittle twig, when suddenly someone taps me on the shoulder.

The other school, by contrast, worried that the existing monetary system was rigid, brittle, and prone to crisis.

You know, he was brittle in a lot of ways. Things were a lot harder for him than for a lot of people.

On the left, this is a brittle star it's covered with lenses that the people at Lucent Technologies have found have no distortion whatsoever.

He says, The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.

The Teredo protocol includes provisions for a sunset procedure Teredo implementation should provide a way to stop using Teredo connectivity when IPv6 has matured and connectivity becomes available using a less brittle mechanism.

And it's brittle, because each of these steps has to be flawless, otherwise you lose that data, whereas in the brain, you have a system that stores data in a distributed way, and it's robust.

The Islamic Republic will not be able to get away with the Chinese option to combine political suppression at home with economic reform and greater openness to the outside world because its structures are too weak and brittle for this.

But Abe also confronts a security environment in Asia that is every bit as brittle as Japan s economy was before his government took office last December. Indeed, he confronted many of the same issues during his first administration seven years ago.

Or maybe it's so hot melted, it's kind of a magma or plastic solid. So this would be the most brittle stuff if it gets formed up, if rock starts to melt a little bit, then you have something like a magma or you can view it as like a deformable or plastic solid.

Where 31 of Americans today have no retirement savings and therefore the American dream of pausing when you're 65 when your bones are starting to get brittle and being able to retire, they're not going to have that as a reality, and finally and maybe even worse, money is the number one cause of fights in marriages.