Sentence examples for precarious activity from inspiring English sources

Even then, sidesaddle riding remained a precarious activity until the invention of the second, "leaping horn" in the 19th century.

Yet all of this promising activity is precarious, powered only by optimism and determination.

Counterfeiters, like Zoë Sheehan Saldaña, who recently had an exhibition of her "reverse shoplifting" at Real Art Ways in Hartford, are in an even more precarious position, for their activities frequently skirt the boundaries of the law.

Containment of near-lithostatic overpressures in such settings is precarious, fluid loss curtailing mesh activity.

Secondly, any military activity in the precarious security conditions of North and South Kivu, no matter by what troops or for what purpose, inevitably causes massive displacement of civilians, accompanied by murder and rape, outbreaks of disease and malnutrition.

Communities in the Arctic, and the researchers who work alongside them, are already noticing drastic changes in their environment: rising temperatures are affecting sea ice and making traditional subsistence hunting activities far more precarious and dangerous; people have died travelling by snowmobile across previously solid ice that rising temperatures have made fragile.

When war broke out between England and revolutionary France, Pitt's security measures made it precarious to engage in reform activities at home, but Bentham's caution also stemmed from the need to curry favour in official circles for the panopticon penitentiary (Semple 1993, 187 90).

Her understanding of the actual activity of writing is precarious.

In 1948 he was among the party leaders indicted for subversive activity, but, because of his precarious health, he was not brought to trial.

They have criticized Mr. McClendon's freewheeling management style, the board's weak oversight of his activities and the company's precarious financial position.

Such deficits include the inability to engage in economically productive activities – which further complicates an already precarious economic situation – as well as the inability to benefit from educational opportunities.