Sentence examples for a precarious environment from inspiring English sources

Consensus at the roundtable was that charities perceive themselves to be in a precarious environment, as a result of squeezed incomes coupled with increasing demand for their services.

This involved resisting attempts by the Senegalese state, encouraged by the International Monetary Fund and other international agencies, to oblige rural communities to abandon strategies of subsistence - well adapted to a precarious environment - in favour of commercial agriculture, carrying high burdens of debt and a perilous dependence for water on the management of high dams.

Inserm therefore proposed that risk factors be detected at an early stage, even from early pregnancy, and to organize regular interventions in families at risk, particularly among young mothers with a first pregnancy in a precarious environment.

In the meantime, the young people I teach every day at Berkeley seem less worried about crime than about their economic future as the seniors among them prepare to enter a job market still at emergency levels of unemployment, and all of them ponder the challenges of building families in an increasingly precarious environment of drought, fire, and crumbling infrastructure.

Celia and Ernesto brought up their children in a bohemian, financially precarious environment.

(As the historian Quentin Skinner has shown, capitalism has a long history of rhetorically appropriating external virtues). Everyone, even in the dullest of jobs, must now be creative and entrepreneurial, which just means finding new ways to survive in a hostile and precarious environment from which all solidarity has been ruthlessly eliminated.

Even though this study does not give any explanation about the reasons behind these observations, it makes us step back from the idea that the less-than-optimal development of the children of separated parents is due only to an economically more precarious environment.

"We've created this precarious environment, an ecology for our children built of these mass produced goods...and we've placed our children in this space, and they are just observing," says Piccinini.

Industry analysts and casino executives warn that this precarious environment will be a challenge for even the most seasoned and stable management.

Its future growth depends on a precarious political environment and the cooperation of Israel.

Staff without powerful connections feared humiliation in a precarious, hostile environment.