Sentence examples for a difficult and precarious from inspiring English sources

Nothing was automatic about the rise of the working class, he argued: 19th-century workers had courageously forged their own collective identity through a difficult and precarious process in which the initiative, moral conviction, and imaginative efforts of individual activists had made a crucial difference.

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And I was sick of the kind of intensity of dealing with the imagery all the time and the performances were draining, and physically really kind of difficult and precarious.

All of which leaves the Kings of Leon in a difficult, precarious position: a band who've established, in a rather passive-aggressive way, that they don't want to make the music that made them famous any more, but haven't really thought what they want to do instead.

Life, after all, is a precious and precarious thing.

Unfortunately, social work often takes the spotlight for all the wrong reasons, as the impact of government cuts make a difficult profession even more precarious.

Parking was eliminated, driving was difficult and it became precarious even to walk.

But juggling Christie Whitman's tax structure with a view of government perhaps closer to Jim Florio's was beginning to look like a difficult stunt -- far more precarious than a beach walk.

Living beings are exquisitely adapted to survive in a world of limited and precarious food resources.

The combined difficulties of travel and the harsher assessments have left those working low-paid and precarious jobs in a difficult, perhaps impossible position.

They soon ended Hurok's "Russian occupation", but the 50s were a difficult time, marked by heavy touring, precarious finances (a recurrent concern for ABT) and a steady trickle of departures.