Sentence examples for parlous levels from inspiring English sources

Given the parlous levels of corporate governance, there is a very good case for the company's auditor, Grant Thornton, and its brokers, who include Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, stepping down.

The level reflects India's low relative levels of education, parlous infrastructure and persistent poverty.

Not so, notes the eminent usagist Jacques Barzun from his San Antonio house of intellect: "To walk a tight wire at the 14th floor level is perilous and not parlous.

There is soaring unemployment, an acute shortage of affordable housing, vastly insufficient public transport, parlous public health provision, endemic corruption and levels of crime which, though much lower than a decade ago, are still very high.

The future looks particularly parlous for those small independents, just below Michelin level, that want to produce serious, innovative food.

If not for public-employee unions, which added two million members between 1956 and 1976, the U.S. labour movement would have found itself in an even more parlous state, as unionization in the private sector slipped to close to pre-New Deal levels.

The country's finances are parlous.

The parlous position of news brands remains.

Football administration is in a parlous state.

The parlous state of the Chinese Super League's finances is also explored, showing top teams there are losing huge sums as they pay wages akin to big-five European levels.

It was parlous when he arrived.