Sentence examples for parlous to from inspiring English sources

But even though the US State Department has recently allocated them $100m, their situation remains parlous, to say the least.

The former Manchester United reserve may yet be promoted from within, but if Albion decide their position is too parlous to trust to someone without managerial experience, he could work alongside McInnes, a former club captain.

But when I ask him for the single biggest change he's observed since leaving Britain, he replies with a kind of theatrical despair, "I think the situation in British universities has gone from being parlous to being catastrophic.

Western powers, particularly France and the United States, must also take responsibility for how they got to this parlous place to begin with.

Nonetheless, it still gives them broad leeway to decide when a loan is looking parlous enough to register an expected loss.

"Eleven years ago we rescued Britain from the parlous state to which socialism had brought it," she said.

Given the growing numbers of older and disabled people in western populations like the UK, this is a particularly parlous state to be in.

Francisco Roman / ITB Productions, Inc. Gina Carano as Ava and Amaury Nolasco as Silvio Lugo in the movie "In The Blood". "In the Blood" casts mixed martial artist Gina Carano as Ava, who has overcome a particularly parlous upbringing to turn her life around and marry up the social ladder.

She is invariably described as chameleonlike because of her uncanny ability to get under the skins of characters as diverse as a 16th-century queen who renounces her private life to rule her parlous empire ("Elizabeth") to a single mother of three with psychic powers who lives in rural Georgia ("The Gift").

A leaked tape revealed him admitting, in an obscenity-peppered speech, that his government had systematically lied about the country's parlous public finances to win the parliamentary elections in April, and that it had done nothing to reform them before or since.Hungary's public-sector deficit, the government now admits, is a staggering 10% of GDP.

(That things have got to this parlous state, whereby English has to be talked up as a language we might all think about adopting, is actually quite beyond satire).