Sentence examples for at a precipitous from inspiring English sources

And now, the Jets, with one foot already slipping down the mountain, are peering at a precipitous drop.

In "human wave" assaults, they sent thousands of young men directly into the Iraqi lines, often to clear minefields, and soldiers died at a precipitous rate.

Having beaten Salt Lake and Vancouver, their juggernaut swings into Portland with their lead in the East standing at a precipitous 11 points even at this early stage of the season.

"We make a mistake if we are going to make our entire appeal rural and outside the Northeast and outside the Rust Belt," said Mr. King, of New York, who easily won re-election in a region shedding Republicans at a precipitous rate.

The suit also takes aim at what it describes as a "precipitous falloff" in student performance under emergency management.

The "life-cycle" model, first articulated in Utility Analysis and the Consumption Function (1954) by economists Franco Modigliani and Richard Brumberg, proposes that households' spending decisions are driven by household members' assessments of expenditure needs and income over the remainder of their lives, taking into account predictable events such as a precipitous drop in income at retirement.

British authorities also said today that they had learned from Russian officials that the Kursk is not lying at such a precipitous angle as they had thought.

The listing, designed to provide a barrier to development in areas where koalas are threatened, is aimed at halting a precipitous drop in numbers that has seen the species decline by 40% in Queensland and by one-third in NSW over the past two decades.

Among the disgraced works was "Drinking and Singing at the Foot of a Precipitous Mountain".

(Women are especially vulnerable, because estrogen loss at menopause can cause a precipitous decline in bone density).

The centerpiece is a tree precariously growing at the edge of a precipitous bluff, with its twisted roots laid bare by erosion.