Sentence examples for precarious concrete from inspiring English sources
These precarious concrete houses and makeshift enterprises are the symbols of poverty today for much of the world.
The steep, precarious concrete steps between the home stay, the community and the hotel are reminding my calf muscles that they need more exercise.
Big concrete pillars lean out at precarious angles to support the cantilevered floors above.
They were the hundreds of thousands of firefighters, pilots, soldiers, scientists and experts sent to contain the damage, to evacuate the citizenry and ultimately to encase the deadly ruin in a concrete sarcophagus whose stability appears precarious.
A recovery team had to burrow horizontally, punch through two collapsed and precarious floors and then remove mounds of crumbled concrete from over the man, Mr. Juncosa said.
The situation was so precarious that chunks of rock and pieces of concrete poured out of the dam's spillways.
Some parts of the tunnels are so precarious that they'll need to be literally filled with concrete to keep them from collapsing under the weight of the recovery machinery operating on the streets above.
"What we would like is that they work under a concrete set of rules in conditions that aren't precarious".
Investment in infrastructure, adequate training, an end to precarious work, and reforms such as social protection, minimum wages and collective bargaining, are concrete steps governments must take to narrow the growing gap between the haves and have-nots.
A piece by Patrick Hill in which bands of frayed fabric anchored in a block of concrete are stretched over a near-vertical sheet of glass, holding it at a seemingly precarious angle, is reminiscent of Mr. Serra's early prop sculptures.
