The phrase "a precarious state of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation that is unstable, uncertain, or risky.
Example: "The country is currently in a precarious state of economic decline, with rising unemployment and inflation."
Alternatives: "an unstable condition of" or "a risky situation of".
It's a precarious state of affairs, and by definition temporary.
By contrast, the Aiken-Rhett House (48 Elizabeth Street, 843-723-1159) exists in a precarious state of semidilapidation.
Opposing his extradition, a House of Commons select committee said he was in a "precarious state of mental health".
Gigante's is the kind of book that one can mock with ease and imitate at peril: "If we approach Wordsworth's concept of feeding through the mechanics of assimilation, as described in Romantic Naturphilosophie, we find that the feeding mind naturally exists in a precarious state of tension with its own abjected matter," and so on.
The Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor — a long-troubled national project — has been in a precarious state of shutdown since a 3.3-ton device crashed into the reactor's inner vessel, cutting off access to the plutonium and uranium fuel rods at its core.
Building services dependent on another platform can be a precarious state of affairs for a developer.
Still, in the early 1990s, the bank was in a precarious state because of its problems in Latin America, coupled with losses in commercial real estate and a weak economy.
From the outside this might look like a somewhat precarious state of affairs, but Mosse, who has a new novel out this month as well as the arrangements for the 2013 prize to announce, is upbeat.
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.
"Though it is true that every age considers the world to be in a precarious state, at the very edge of dark, nevertheless Ada and Inman doubted if at any foretime in history the sense of an ending was as justified as it had been then.
More changes to the format of the America's Cup have been announced which could leave both the Italian and New Zealand challenges in a precarious state and reduce the field of those lining up against the American holders, Oracle, to three.
