Sentence examples for is rather precarious from inspiring English sources

But his domestic position is rather precarious.

Meg teaches in a secondary school and Nick is a philosophy lecturer at a new university: his academic position, it turns out, is rather precarious, owing to a faculty row – and here Kureishi may be influenced by the fictions of JM Coetzee and Philip Roth, although the dispute is not dwelt upon.

It should be noted that the state of preservation of the paintings is rather precarious, because of the particular technique used for their realization.

Although there are obvious borrowings in Ceylon from subcontinental literature, notably Sanskrit, and there was rather precarious communication with India through the island's Hindu community of Tamils, Ceylon never became culturally continuous with the mainland.

But the existence of such an entity seems to be rather precarious.

I don't mean, necessarily, that they're acting, just that there is something rather precarious about their manner.

People with two-and-a-half homes mocking three-homers for ostentation - it's a rather precarious basis for feeling that yours is the right way of being rich, isn't it?

It's not that I'm a workaholic, it's rather that I like to tread the precarious line between boredom and fear.

Trump himself is in a rather precarious position on Ryancare.

"I was in a rather precarious situation when this project was proposed to me," Mr. Ribes said by phone from Paris, referring to his post-prison finances.

Before 1935 each of these sites had a smaller "birdcage" bandstand; the one in the music gardens having been moved from a rather precarious position opposite the Albion Hotel.