Sentence examples for perilously unstable from inspiring English sources

However, the system of regular, short-term elections through which power was diffused had proved perilously unstable.

Attempting to suppress people's views might create an "opinion quake lake", he said recently, referring to the perilously unstable lakes that were formed by landslides during the Sichuan earthquake.

Danny is initially on the side of the devils, and when we first meet him in 1999 he is trying to cross the border of a perilously unstable Sierra Leone with a stash of diamonds tucked into some goats.

So, this shifting over time, and this dichotomy between professed orthodoxy and lived orthopraxy ought to suggest that our beliefs about God may be important, but they are also perilously unstable.

perilously close to deflation.

Inequality is perilously wide.

That was perilously close.

But that view is perilously shortsighted.

Perilously, he's a leader.

Edwyn is perilously ill.

Money was perilously tight.