Sentence examples for precarious enterprise from inspiring English sources

There is one private and precarious enterprise offering a GCSE Latin course to maintained schools, which I organise, with the support of the university outreach department and a loyal band of teachers who still believe in the Classics.

When a narrator is unreliable -- biased, silly or, as here, very young -- it is a precarious enterprise for the author to negotiate the boundary between the teller of a tale and its controlling intelligence.

That museum makes the war's outcome seem thoroughly unpredictable: the instruments of intelligence, still there — pushpins on maps and draped telephone cables — show just how precarious the enterprise was.

Ballet is an expensive business, and no one knew that better than Serge Diaghilev, who several times faced penury as he tried to sustain his precarious and brilliant enterprise Les Ballets Russes, between 1909 and 1929.

Or will the meeting confirm suspicions that the enterprise is somewhat precarious, with leaders and secretariat alike unsure of the next steps?

That great individual hardship would be involved cannot be denied, nor should it be minimized, but in any case the conditions of employment in a fundamentally unsound enterprise must be precarious in the extreme.

These precarious concrete houses and makeshift enterprises are the symbols of poverty today for much of the world.

That leaves companies like DataSift in a precarious position longer term — an enterprise-grade version of the same conundrum that impacts third-party developers that rely on other large platforms.

For the leave campaign is driven by libertarians who seek to create, in the name of free enterprise, an even more precarious economy than that which has left so many of the English working class insecure and disillusioned.

Specifically, the main aims of the Jobs Act are to (a) increase employment and reduce the share of the workforce with precarious contracts and to (b) stimulate enterprise productivity by encouraging the employment of a young labour force, thereby improving growth and competitiveness through reduced labour costs.

But I wanted to test the "conventional wisdom" that social enterprises are innately more precarious business ventures than their private sector equivalents.