Sentence examples for precarious achievements from inspiring English sources

Passing St Helena, Dingley is moved to muse on the brief and precarious achievements of Napoleon: when set beside the ambitions of Disraeli or Cecil Rhodes, the Corsican's had proved no more than those of an Italian condottiere.

But it was a precarious achievement, because of the regularity with which resistance leaders were captured by the Nazis.

In High Hopes, it is Shirley's precarious achievement patiently to persuade her partner they should try for a baby.

Certainly unreason can be tempered by the hard-won practices of civilisation, but civilisation will always be a precarious achievement.

While key informants felt that the early curriculum development and training of clinical associates had been successful, many pointed out that these achievements were precarious.

George Watson declares that the poem "shows how precarious Coleridge's new achievement was.

Watson believes that Fears in Solitude "shows how precarious Coleridge's new achievement was.

Hadid has made the transition from visionary to builder, but the achievement still seems precarious.

Existence was precarious, conflicts inevitable, but the pleasures and achievements were sumptuous.

Yet, for all his achievements, the 56-year-old Chernin finds himself in a precarious position.

The more slender the filament, the more precarious the journey, as these men prove, the more magical the achievement.