Bottom-dwelling creatures like mussels, brittle stars and sea urchins have not developed any defenses.
Applications also may be more brittle during refactoring due to the use of strings to signify properties.
A brittle SOA can directly or indirectly affect peer services and subsystems, as Shared resources are locked, consumed, or exhausted.
Heavy, brittle walls of traditional adobe—cheap, sun-dried brick—cracked instantly when the ground started Bucking. Subsequent shakes brought roofs thundering down.
Crowley, somewhere west of Amersham, hurtled through the night, snatched a tape at random and tried to wrestle it out of its brittle plastic box while staying on the road.
Mostly, he sits in a wheelchair, crippled by brittle bone disease.
But while our screens are brittle, theirs is flexible — at what they say is one tenth the price.
My middle-aged friend says I should accept the inevitable, let the bones turn brittle, the skin shrivel and sag, the hair grey and thin.
Naturally, in this context I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.
This was important in order to avoid brittle and sensitive to any changes within itself which leads to improved maintainability.
To make a transducer by painstakingly micro-machining a brittle block of ceramic material can take many hours of work, though.
Those tablets were not baked, only dried in the sun and [were], therefore, very brittle.
Oops.) Besides, using cookies or hidden form fields is messy, error-prone, and brittle (and a cookie-based approach won't work at all if the user has disabled the use of cookies in the browser).
In this way, start to build the foundation for a graceful transition from a tightly coupled brittle architecture to a more loosely-coupled, dynamically reconfigurable architecture.
Thyroid disease can manifest itself in dry, brittle hair, brittle nails, and weight gain or loss.
But their brittle interpretation of sovereignty is an old-fashioned, and even dangerous, notion in world affairs.
