Sentence examples for making the precarious from inspiring English sources

I've come to see, as I've got older and as I've written more books, that almost everything in my life is about making the precarious and the unpredictable feel safer and more manageable in a way.

Wage mobility, though low, actually increased in the 2000s, when a higher proportion escaped low pay than in the 1990s and a few more succeeded in making the precarious journey from low to high pay.

Buses drop workers on the roads and they make the precarious walk through the dark to their homes.

Recent years have seen winter deluges cause flooding, severe late frosts and dry summers, all of which make the precarious job of growing fruit and vegetables even harder.

Most asylum-seeker boats that have made the precarious journey to Australia came from Indonesia, but 120 left from Sri Lanka in 2012 for what can be a voyage of up to three weeks.

For the last month, this has been her home, after she and her mother made the precarious boat journey from Turkey.

Gangsters also cut pumping lines to siphon off gas or oil, further making the system precarious in places.

They can't lower rates without making the dollar more precarious so they've backed themselves into a corner.

Hundreds of people have died making the short but precarious crossing from Turkey to the Lesbos shores in inflatable dinghies in the past year, and the island is full of unmarked graves.

In such a sensitive political climate, hyperbole can make the already precarious situation more fragile.

What was radical about the border action was N.I.Y.A.'s attempt to make the Dreamers' precarious status itself the basis for a claim of political asylum.