Sentence examples for more parlous from inspiring English sources

Rugby's position is more parlous still.

The busier the pawnbroker, the more parlous the country's finances.

Heretics and infidels, like myself, will be gratified to have avoided a more parlous fate.

However tough their plight is, tomorrow night's rivals are in a more parlous state.

Without him the country would be in a far more parlous state.

This, though, is Ukraine, a country in an even more parlous condition than Greece and a more likely candidate to welch on its debts.

It tells us something about Kelly herself and the scope of her ambition; it tells us quite a lot more about the parlous state of American television; and it also offers clues to how the implausible candidacy of Trump has come to be.

And they seem all the more remarkable given the parlous state of the music industry, which has seen album sales decline by 52 per cent over the past decade.

It needs to be pointed out that this greater security comes from these institutions' underlying ethos of mutuality – a characteristic that, as Michael Stephenson argues, we need a lot more of in these parlous times.

The Pakistani military has come under unusual criticism for allowing Bin Laden to live for five years in Abbottabad, a small city that is home to a top military academy, and the latest attack was seen as more proof of the parlous state of the armed forces.

It may take dramatists, like the rest of us, many more years to process this parlous political moment.