Sentence examples for a precarious line from inspiring English sources
Even here, farmers like Mr. Loflin are walking a precarious line.
Mr. Cameron's government, struggling to pull Britain out of its financial crisis with little result so far, has walked a precarious line since taking power last year.
Google is walking a precarious line, said Kevin Bankston, director of the free expression project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a nonprofit in Washington that advocates for digital civil liberties.
In all her work Grenville treads a precarious line between darkness and superb comedy, from the extraordinary Lilian's Story (1985) and its sequel, Dark Places (1994), to her clearly understated novel The Idea of Perfection (1999).
Karen Arthur, the director, and Sally Beth Robinson, who wrote the teleplay (taking considerable latitude with Ms. Melanson's book), try to walk a precarious line between compelling story and sentimental mush, with only partial success.
Such cooking walks a precarious line between the delicious and the daft, and, because it is pushing at the accepted boundaries of what we think of as restaurant food, it is a balancing act without a safety net.
Google expects revolutionary developments over the next few years and credit to them for putting themselves in a position where they can really make big things happen, a position that they know has the potential to walk a morally precarious line, and taking steps to steps to implement a new ethics committee to ensure guide rails.
Treading a similarly precarious line was colossally popular Untouchables, in which a wealthy white paraplegic hires a young black man from the banlieues as his carer.
"They were trying to walk a very precarious line between representing and exploring issues that feminists were interested in and reaching out to new women".
Asked if she had been tempted to move into a less precarious line of work, she said, "I couldn't find another thing that is as interesting as what I do now".
But it is a precarious business.
