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Sentence Examples He eked out a precarious living chiefly by writing short stories, some of which won praise but none of which earned him significant money. Do any professional publishers understand, one wonders, how precarious their position is? Shooting out lights, opening and closing doors and leaping to precarious positions are all part of the game. But now they have gone out on such precarious limbs their positions are clearly untenable. Meanwhile, Taiwan is facing a precarious situation on the diplomatic front. The refugees' precarious situations, and their unfamiliarity with the claimant process, make them easy prey for crooked consultants. Theatre exists in such an eternally precarious state of valetudinarianism that observers keep predicting its imminent demise. Becoming Speaker of the House of Commons is happily no longer so precarious, but it certainly has its difficulties. In February 1776, smallpox appeared among Dunmore's troops, who had established a precarious camp on a spit of land near Portsmouth, Virginia. The area where they are located is precarious because the ravine is a main watercourse. Of course you could borrow one from an obliging neighbour, but they are then in the same precarious position. Salcedo was interested in the precarious nature of the materials, the fragility of the hair. I realized her precarious emotional state and immediately offered to go take care of the grisly task of offing her turkey. Meanwhile, crises continue to haunt their precarious families, and recurring small loans further perpetuate their servitude. Of all the European government heads, the British Prime Minister's position is, in the near term, the most precarious. A sharp rise in contractual obligations could, de facto, wipe out his precarious autonomy. Greater consumer credit excess and further financial sector leveraging ensure a more precarious disaster down the road. Several pictures present them in precarious spots on hillsides or in snowy mountain scenes. Always take the proper precautions with ladders and safety equipment, and don't overextend your reach or place yourself in precarious positions. Execute this one correctly or risk putting your shoulders in a very precarious position. Show More Sentences As he travels to Mount Doom with the hobbits, Sam and Frodo, their relationship becomes more precarious. The failure might have been delayed until the power pull or an even more precarious position like an overwater hover. Many of those dissenting voices seem to wonder how, given the precarious financial situation, the players can jet off to the sun for four days. He found the state finances more precarious than central government finances. In the distance small hamlets teetered on mountain ridges, seemingly ready to tumble off their precarious perch. The other stocking waves shyly from its precarious perch atop a tilted lampshade. A planet in detriment or fall is in a precarious condition, more so if it is peregrine or otherwise afflicted. He took the seat, delicately perching himself on the rather precarious space. If life in politics is precarious, it seems to be particularly perilous for those who are close to him. Dearnley's precarious financial position stemmed from debts from a failed company he set up and a careless approach to money. On a small, precarious headland the faint traces of a monastic cell can be seen. This, most regrettably, has gone much beyond a precarious domestic Credit scheme and a foray into inconvertible currencies. Youth especially faced an increasingly precarious existence, with many dependent only on temporary or part-time jobs. But only in that precarious exilic realm can one first truly grasp the difficulty of what cannot be grasped, and then go forth to try anyway. To be an alchemist at this time was a precarious profession, a calling that required great political skill. They were sprawled nonchalantly, legs akimbo, across the precarious rock pathway that led to my jumping-off point. As the wind increased, the yacht heeled over to a precarious angle and its bow was being continually submerged by the oncoming swell. The shoulder can be put into a precarious position during the recovery and entry periods of the crawl and butterfly strokes. But relying solely on rising house prices to create equity in your property is precarious to say the least. The precarious political situation between the two superpowers was almost a constant reference point in my early teenage years. Show More Sentences Careful framing brings home the precarious situation of everyone in Black Rock. What could be responsible for the incredible evolutionary sprint that brought our species to its present exalted but precarious position? We look at why insurance for major sporting events has become a precarious business. Business as usual is what has driven the greater sage grouse to its precarious brink. Their titles, their influence, and their claims to dignity and honour are now precarious. They skated around for a bit, mostly with him just trying to help her keep her precarious purchase on the ground. Her position was rendered even more precarious when a formal petition to deselect her was signed by about 40 members last month. Her position seemed ever more precarious by the minute, and it was clear that I would have to rescue her. Just a month ago we were in a precarious position in the league table, but now we've got our sights set on the top half of the table. There will be a prolonged recovery period because of the damage the lorry sustained and its precarious position. Here's a look at the goaltenders, defensemen and forwards who might never be in such a precarious spot again. In Hungary, there have been large and angry protests by farmers, whose livelihoods are becoming extremely precarious. Adam looked skyward from his precarious position on a roof beam of the house he was building. A tree's roots had grown into the dam, and it was riddled with holes and in a very precarious condition. Spurgeon stood on the precarious razor's edge between High Calvinism and Arminianism and preached the Word of God as he understood it. Given how precarious this recovery has been, policymakers won't rush to hike rates. With cruel irony, as livelihoods became increasingly precarious, population totals soared. It's a tiny blob of lava that previously housed a small community, making a precarious living from fishing, on its rocky slopes. The wheels of her buggy had struck a deep rut on the shoulder of the road, and the vehicle was leaning at a precarious angle. The divisions within Australian ruling circles are also being fuelled by the increasingly precarious position of the Australian economy. Show More Sentences Here, behind the building's exposed beams, Sze stacked scores of small white jewelry boxes into precarious ziggurats. She had six children from her first marriage when widowed, and made a precarious living as a travelling saleswoman. Yet, for all its parliamentary numbers, the government remains politically precarious. We can see clearly the essence of despotism and the precarious nature of democracy. As I looked down from my precarious position next to a pile of honey on top of the Aga, I noticed two things. Dressed simply in brown unitards, they brought a workmanlike tenacity to their precarious endeavors. Many are forced to leave their families and lead a precarious existence living on the margins of society. After a somewhat precarious start, her husband had stable and prosperous business interests in Chicago. Funding for professional athletes is based on medal winning, which seems precarious. The model with its precarious bits of balsa wood just as it was, glued down, was kept for more than a year. Why bother putting myself into this incredibly precarious occupation where I could be out on my ear within a year or two? Parts of both have survived into the 21st century, but their continued existence is precarious. No doubt, the number of survivors eking out a precarious existence must far exceed the death toll. However, surviving on minimal water resources could result in farmers having to lead a precarious existence, depending heavily on seasonal rains. By the time I returned, he was at the top of this precarious ladder cleaning windows. He looked smug and self-satisfied, possibly having forgotten his precarious position. He closes his eyes tightly and tries to wrench himself out of his precarious position. You remember how precarious the company was after your father and grandfather died. Skerry is already sitting, wolfing things down, her blue hair up in a precarious topknot and a few scattered braids. Bellerophon's main topmast had been shot away and her mizzen topmast was in a precarious state. Show More Sentences Black vultures choose less precarious rocky perches on which to nest but join the lammergeiers on the thermals in their quest for food. In fact, the board's support for a spring academic freedom conference has been shaky, making the organising quite precarious. Two painkillers and some cold water later, she made her shaky way down the precarious steps into the living room. But today's results certainly emphasise the precarious state of the group's finances. He carried the tray of warm food up the precarious wooden stairs and opened the door. I suspect that it can only break the perfection of the story, particularly its tremulous, precarious existence on the edge of my world. One would expect a bird living in the shadow of remote island volcanoes to lead a somewhat precarious existence. But because of my precarious balance I stumbled back, tripped over my own feet and landed on someone's lap. Indiscreet and precarious tonsures have both dishonored the monachal habit and caused the name of Christ to be blasphemed. But the amount of money they owe makes the situation more precarious than we are comfortable with. We learned about their precarious existence with nature and their love of the sea. They managed to scrape a precarious living from the eggs laid by that one hen. Since my perch on the social ladder was precarious, I had to make sure to watch my step and my mouth. She watched in the rearview mirror as he fell from his precarious standing position on the trunk to crumple into the back seat. Are you ready to catch yourself, to tumble safely out of a precarious position? Cyclists and drivers unperturbed by my precarious position skimmed past me in both directions. The next, he's hurtling earthward from a precarious platform 50 meters above the ground. While economies boom, the financial foundation could not be more precarious. As Finance Secretary I found that the finances of the state were in a precarious condition. Wahid, at the head of an unstable multi-party coalition, is attempting a precarious political balancing act. Show More Sentences In a time when blitzes have made quarterbacking a more precarious endeavor than ever, teams that do not possess two accomplished forward passers are at risk. The train is not only faster and cleaner, but with an operating sound output of 0.1dB, is also significantly quieter than buses or the precarious three-wheeled tuk-tuks. The teenager and his ageing parents grow a small amount of rice but depend almost entirely on two buffaloes to maintain their precarious existence. Given this precarious situation we may already have one foot in the grave. The Royal Scots, the army's oldest regiment, is on precarious ground. Yet, in the absence of the traditional ruling magnates to supervise border rule and defence, the region's precarious peace dissolved into feuds and reiving. To repair any damage Rhoda has done to her already precarious identity as a good little girl, Rhoda initiates a game that she and her mother have obviously played before. It was a precarious life, tented on the fairgrounds with all earnings in cash. Our research reveals a growing prevalence of precarious working conditions, zero-hours and temporary contracts, underemployment, and very low wages. The boats are launched from a slipway into the island's precarious harbour, steered through lulls in the surf and out to passing ships to trade or to load freight. Young male office and shop clerks occupied a precarious social and economic position on the margins of respectable middle-class Victorian society. Their harrowing escape to Erbil has ended in a precarious and hardscrabble existence. The question of Alsace-Lorraine, and the spirit of revanchism to which it gave rise, placed Passy's peace group in an even more precarious position than before the war. Anything out of the ordinary could arouse her from her precarious slumber. I watched the city pass by, the narrow, winding streets with their rounded paving stones, the precarious buildings that'd never known an architect's touch. But with 29 low-rent housing units above them, they would need to evict individuals already in precarious financial situations in order to expand. Unprotected at the tail of the aircraft they led precarious lives. Born with the excruciating genetic disorder Trisomy 18, Bella lives with heartbreakingly precarious health. Despite the precarious position of the oil market, financial markets remain extraordinarily sanguine in regard to the prospects of another major oil shock. Together, they have scaled the stony scramble of Stirrup Crag at Yewbarrow, hit the heights of Helvellyn twice and negotiated the precarious pathway of Striding Edge. Show More Sentences Somewhere, enormous losses have been suffered, with recent mark-to-market declines in Credit derivatives seriously compounding an already precarious situation. However, a closer look at the tissue of the dream reveals the most precarious of balances between the concerns of the individual and those of the family and community. I felt sure the gum on the precarious trap would catch the mouse tonight. Many live in precarious shacks and suffer under miserable conditions. Somebody else suggests that the evidence is precarious, coming as it does from victims who might not make confident witnesses. The incident highlights the precarious state of Afghanistan as U.S. troops prepare to withdraw from the country. The boots are at that precarious stage of wearing out, and every blissful outing that they take with me now only decreases the time until they get thrown away. They understand very well how precarious their majority is, and how wobbly are its intellectual foundations. A boxy, low-lying structure about 2 feet tall was surmounted by precarious, spindly towers outfitted with tiny ladders rising to a height of 6 feet. But she was undeniably alienated in our boxy house, and I could often catch her sad face fixed on a slant of autumn light or a gray squirrel, precarious on a wire. The repetition of the word century, instead of evoking diachrony, only further betrays the precarious instantaneity of the utterance, its vocalic ephemerality. At common law the tenant at sufferance was in a very precarious position, because the landlord was able to recover possession of the premises, even by force. In the sudden cold and darkness, their rooftop perch seemed precarious. The situation of anarchy, of institutionalised violence, and of insecurity contributes to worsening the already precarious situation for the people. He was clearly of consequence but his hold on power was precarious. Early in the 1960s, Barry Humphries lost his footing on a Cornish cliff, tumbled backwards, and had to be hauled up from a precarious ledge above the sea. Mia turned cross-eyed, watching the two younger girls jump around on the edge of the roof as though the precarious angle was just another sidewalk. If that is where you are this morning, your position is very precarious. They are related to similarly proportioned glassware made in the 1890s, but the delicate tints and precarious attenuation are markers of preciosity and refinement. Cleopatra, in a grand gamble, sought not merely to maintain Egypt's precarious independence but to restore the Ptolemaic realm as it had been in its heyday. Show More Sentences They were one means by which to rise above exiguities and weather the turbulences in a precarious world. However the economic position of the islands remains relatively precarious. The peace remained precarious, however, and Stephen's second son William remained a possible future rival to Henry. Britain's economic situation was precarious, and most of NATO was reluctant to cut trade ties. Her father's relatively sudden death left Jane, Cassandra, and their mother in a precarious financial situation. Finding their position in mainland Europe precarious, they crossed to England in 330 ships in two divisions. She resolved to live by her pen and for her son, but her financial situation was precarious. The lack of vegetative cover, the severe climate, and the impact of grazing on the deserts have left wild animals in a precarious position. Stephen maintained a precarious hold on power, but agreed to a compromise under which Matilda's son Henry would succeed him. Thus combined, the French outnumbered the British, putting the British forces in a precarious position. Excessive and abrupt changes to our longevity will result in the upsetting of our precarious natural interrelationships and societal functions. As a result, Aneeqa died on the spot while Ume Habiba sustained serious injuries and was rushed to local hospital in a precarious condition. Mortimer knew his position in relation to the king was precarious and subjected Edward to disrespect. A few spindly trees cling to the sides of the gorge, but their roothold on the tiny patches of soil gathered in cracks is precarious. The dramatic tenor of Bashir's composition dreamingly and effortlessly segued with the precarious and exciting tonal moods of Nawazen. With the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany during the 1930s, the country found itself in a very precarious situation. But few focus exclusively on the sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of New Brunswickers regarding their precarious economic outlook. From Bacon's point of view, the King's Bench was a far more precarious position for someone loyal to the common law rather than the monarch. I was a poverty-ridden student striving for life in a system which makes the very existence of a scholar precarious. The fishing crisis of the 1990s saw the already precarious economic base of the many towns further eroded. Show More Sentences He tried to collect troops and put Rome in a state of defence, but his position was precarious. The survival of a caravan was precarious and would rely on careful coordination. While some developed close working relationships with company personnel, the position of the gillnetter was always precarious. The situation of the Negev Bedouin has been precarious for many decades. These complicated operations in the Low Countries had left the overall Spanish Habsburg forces and finances in a precarious situation. Most of the nests are constructed on precarious perches nestled in the virtually vertical cliffs of the basalt and conglomerate. This was necessary due to the precarious nature of the access road which is liable to frequent rock falls and landslips. A lot of factors are adducible for the precarious condition of living in Africa. However, Hansen's injury puts the Dodgers in a precarious position since Hansen is one of the top pinch-hitters in baseball. The first diagram reveals a multi-polar system, in which a plurality of forces and interests balance each other in precarious equilibrium. Henry's finances were in a precarious state as a result of the war, and when Edward decided to join the crusades in 1268 it became clear that fresh taxes were necessary. The vehicle's wheels being caught in a guardrail kept it from plummeting to the ground, with fire crews having to use a crane to remove the truck from its precarious perch. Under Lohman, the School assumed a more sophisticated and liberal character, a precarious mix of narrow vocationalism and social democratic policy-making. Those willing to help have been condemned to a precarious clandestinity. Significant drivers of low pay include insecure and precarious work, casualisation, a minimum wage that is not a living wage and a significant pay gap between women and men. The mountaineer, who was on a precarious ledge, and two others sparked a dramatic operation when they became trapped on Carrauntoohil in the Macgillycuddy's Reeks, Co Kerry. Those tableaux vivants are only slightly more ephemeral than the rousingly precarious structure of the DIY Georgian pavilion located at the terminus of the Arsenale. Suarez told the Carter administration that 'Ulsterisation' of the Basque problem would present a serious threat to Spain's precarious democratic regime. These likely serve to lure insects into a precarious position over the pitcher mouth, where they may lose their footing and fall into the fluid within. By then, the situation in the Holy Land was a precarious one. Show More Sentences The sheeting of water keeps the edges of the rock wet without eroding the soil, but in this precarious location no tree or large shrub can maintain a roothold. Blood soon became engaged and after their marriage her husband, Hugh Skeys, took her to Lisbon, Portugal, to improve her health, which had always been precarious. Atlantic Canada is the only area in North America where Gaelic continues to be spoken as a community language and even there the situation of the language is very precarious. In the years that immediately followed Raphael's death, Giulio's independent work became darker, figurally over-ambitious and compositionally agitated, almost precarious. Hilarious, precarious you Talibani confused, imbellic mimic of a gimmick. Examples from Classical Literature Down he went, asprawl on his back, under this sudden loss of his precarious balance. Terrestrial life is precarious since it is at the mercy of atmospherical circumstances. Hence selection of biparental forms is a precarious process, now going forward, now backwards, now standing still. He bootlegged upon a larger scale than do most of those pursuing this precarious avocation. His position, therefore, at the caliphal Court was a changing and precarious one. Our agriculture is precarious, and 27 every carrot is bought by the sweat of our brow. He paused and swaggered a little on the precarious support of his cracker box. Ships in danger of wreck or disablement sometimes cast forth such precarious messengers calling for aid. But to infer that he is a Hellenist, to whom the matter had all the charm of novelty, would be very precarious. What striking lessons have we had of the precarious tenure of all sublunary possessions! In any case, it was evident that Italian opera was a precarious enterprise. These earn a precarious livelihood by fishing for whitefish and jackfish principally in the summer. And the men Page 96 were as feeble as their kingly life was short and precarious. Never had he been so fond of this body of his as now when his tenure of it was so precarious. Not impossible, but a highly precarious and time-consuming operation at best. But the harvests on unirrigated land are precarious, for the annual rainfall is only about 12 inches. Such grounds are precarious, as arguments from style and plan are apt to be. On the broader shelves the mountain maple, the silver birch, and the hobble-bush secure a precarious foothold. All outgo and no income for four years is leaving the Strong finances in mighty precarious shape, I can tell you. It's wishful thinking and we cannot permit such daydreaming in our precarious condition. Show More Sentences Impenetrable and heartless, the sea has given nothing of itself to the suitors for its precarious favours. Life is precarious as the fall of a die at best an ephemeral business. Since the mid-1980s academic and public discourses have depicted African masculinity as both precarious and predatory. The three dollars he received for the triolets he used to eke out a precarious existence against the arrival of the WHITE MOUSE check. Korak's spear struck Numa in the shoulder, knocking him from his precarious hold upon the frantically plunging horse. But all this is precarious, and will change with your fortune. A settlement, though still precarious, has been reached in Laos. This is why politicization and precocity in union with the poor and precarious labourers is not enough. The leak was staunched, but nothing could be more precarious. They made a precarious landing at Siccar Point, where Hutton was able, for the first time, to convincingly demonstrate his discovery of deep time. The Yesnaby Stacks, Orkney A clifftop view that is so dramatic and, if you walk near the edge, so precarious, that its supernaturalism verges on the uneasy. I remember well that the slaves, convinced of the precarious tenure on which they held their lives, passed whole days and nights in praying, crying, and groaning. There was in all this, as may have been observed, one personage concerned, of whom, notwithstanding his precarious position, we have appeared to take but very little notice. Find more words! 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