The phrase "a precarious system" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a system that is unstable, risky, or likely to fail.
Example: "The company's reliance on outdated technology created a precarious system that could collapse at any moment."
Alternatives: "an unstable system" or "a risky system".
Our highly centralized food economy is a dangerously precarious system, vulnerable to accidental — and deliberate — contamination.
While each of the recent crashes in Europe had its own circumstances, these factors were shared, according to different countries' trade unions, which contend that the accidents reveal not so much the failings of any one driver than those of an increasingly precarious system.
For the New Yorker's Richard Brody, a rare FilmStruck skeptic, the service encouraged cinephiles to dematerialize their collections and tether themselves to a precarious subscription system.
TAM's air-conditioned airport lounges, with live piano music and abundant food and drink for all passengers, provided a taste of sophistication for travelers in a developing country with a precarious transportation system.
Lightfoot will take the reins at a difficult time for the city, which continues to face high rates of gun violence, a precarious education system, and huge financial problems, not least a pensions funding crisis.
Studying the relationship between metabolic dynamics and environmental resource conditions, we identify an emergent viable region and a precarious region where the system tends to die unless environmental conditions change.
Hispanics compose a significant portion of the nation's workforce; failure to remedy our current health care system ensures a precarious, uncertain future for our country.
As long as the risk associated with automatic learning systems in a precarious domain such as health care is accounted for, a hybrid approach may prove beneficial in improving recommenders' effectiveness.
Results show a precarious sustainability index for the reef system of 45.87%.
Mr. O'Donnell's $200,000 annual salary and his hiring, which was not announced publicly, have set off some alarms — among lawmakers grappling with the state's huge budget shortfall and among higher education observers who fear that the choice represents a precarious new direction for the U.T. System that could threaten its flagship university's elite status.
