Sentence examples for chancy from inspiring English sources

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chancy

adjective

Uncertain, risky, hazardous

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"And there is no objective answer…At the end you are discussing, what is the price of life?"Drug development is expensive, slow and chancy, so pharmaceutical firms charge a lot.

They emerge from a chancy process of socio-cultural evolution, and it's by no means bound to happen.

Studio executives have long known that such films are chancy.

This is a chancy procedure at the best of times, but particularly trying in the face of enemy fire.Over the past few years, America's Department of Defence has been funding research into other ways of controlling bleeding.

Now we have a gold rush to stake out chancy claims to bits of the genome that might come in handy someday; far short of the old test of usable invention.

In its report on "Developing Leadership for the 21st Century", the recruitment consultants Korn/Ferry rightly wrote: "Business in much of the developed world still pays too much attention to the search for charismatic leadership, rather than engaging in the more difficult but less chancy task of permitting and developing leadership throughout its organisations".

It was the chancy way of his world.

To answer that, it is necessary to understand why the output of drug companies has been declining, and what can be done about it.Striking it rich in drug R&D is a chancy business.

After all, in October 1993 the court ruled that euro-membership had to be based on strict adherence to the Maastricht criteria, achieved thanks to "sustained budget solidity", not chancy short-term measures.Even if the court decided in favour of the sceptics, some euro-fans argue it would make no difference.

Mr Haughey has long been widely regarded as chancy, to say the least.

It was arduous, chancy work, but it fed the family.

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