Sentence examples for a precarious operation from inspiring English sources

It was a precarious operation at the start — as all farming was in the new colonies and it became precarious enough again in these past few years to peter out at last.

It is a precarious process of stabilising the relational order.

Off-Track Betting parlors, dingy backdrops for decades of triumph and heartbreak, could become a thing of the past in the city by next June, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said yesterday, as officials at the financially precarious operation began devising a plan for its shutdown.

It is a precarious existence.

Life is a precarious balance.

You had a precarious childhood.

Fame is a precarious thing.

They have to maintain a precarious balance.

Europe remains in a precarious economic state.

"WE FIND OURSELVESin a precarious situation".

The N.F.L. is in a precarious position.