Sentence examples for an insecure position from inspiring English sources

Recent polls have suggested that Ms. Moseley-Braun, who was swept into office in 1992, is in an insecure position for an incumbent, especially in a year when many incumbents are expected to do well.

It's an insecure position on which to base one's finances and freedom.

I would be leaving a secure job for an insecure position in a city far from anyone I knew.

The character is also a common literary allusion, particularly to refer to a person in an insecure position, something that, once broken, would be difficult to reconstruct, or a short and fat person.

The relative peace did not last: as war broke out, Ernst was in a doubly insecure position as an enemy alien (as far as the French were concerned) and a painter of "degenerate art" (as far as the Germans were concerned).

After a Ph.D., most people start doing a postdoc, usually a short-term assignment, meaning a rather insecure position.

Guardians are put in an automatically insecure position, with no redress to the property owner".

After the lecture, there was a party where she was in the insecure position of being a student among people who were done being students.

Now Gooden is embracing this insecure position because it is the only one available.

They are the nervy, watchful "wait and see" academic generation – and putting them in that stressful, insecure position is nothing for this government to crow about.

As the Guardian reports as part of a series on a new wave of workers in insecure positions, more than half of all academics in the UK are on some kind of casual contract.