Sentence examples for only precarious from inspiring English sources

One group of workers, with secure tenure, will hold on to their jobs at all costs, whereas another group (often young people) will be able to get only precarious jobs or none at all.Naturally enough, trade unions tend to resist flexible labour contracts; they represent the insiders who are benefiting from job security, not the unemployed.

But precarious mental health is not the only risk for long-term addiction.

But they also had only a precarious one-run lead over the Yankees to show for it.

The grim news at Lehman underscores not only the precarious state of that once-proud firm but also the pain afflicting the whole of Wall Street.

Hezbollah is the strongest military force in the country, but it's not clear that it can afford to reëngage along the Israeli front while it sustains losses in Syria and maintains only a precarious degree of support in Lebanon.

Maximal exposure to mortal eyes need not have been the prime purpose of their originators e.g., the tomb chambers of Egyptian pharaohs, intended to be sealed forever, had their inner surfaces covered with monumental hieroglyphs; the great Bīsitūn inscription of King Darius I of Persia is on a high rock surface and legible only after precarious rock-climbing or from airborne conveyances.

Workers are hurrying to shore up and patch a 90-foot-wide gash in the below-ground retaining wall that encircles much of the World Trade Center site after discovering that groundwater, fed by the Hudson River, is only a precarious foot below the lower rim of the damaged area.

While the taxi sector argues that existing laws aren't being enforced meaning that a regulated public service is being unfairly undercut and undermined by multinationals that also only bring precarious work, rather than sustainable employment….

But, for all Preston's domination, it was only a precarious 1-0 leat athehe break and Vale were level when, after a more vibrant start to the second half following top scorer Pope's introduction, they were level.

Both groups see only a precarious path to the middle class.

New York State is not only in a precarious fiscal situation, it is in an election year.