Sentence examples for precarious from from inspiring English sources

These techniques maximise the transactive capacity of the urban fabric, wrest the very last increment of value from the energy invested in the production of manufactured goods, and allow millions to eke a living, however precarious, from the most unpromising of circumstances.

"That transition home is really precarious from the public health standpoint and for their individual health.

Called Unbalanced Hotel and featuring 125 rooms, it might look precarious from the concept designs but this is what Spanish firm OOIIO Architecture will be building for a private client.

From a precarious position from which he could barely see the green, he hit a soaring 40-yard hook to the green with the ball coming to rest 3 feet from the hole.

Down! Down!" The lowest of the low are the photographers, who stand at one end, arranged on ladders and boxes in a precarious pyramid, from which their faces and lenses peer out as from a pile of skulls.

These communities make an increasingly precarious living from farming.

That anyone is born, each precarious success from sperm and egg to zygote, embryo, infant, is a wonder.

"The union really stepped up and helped the state out at a very precarious time, from a financial point of view".

Evenly divided by gender at three ages, the Brady children represented various stages of the precarious passage from childhood to adulthood.

(Beth, who is in law school in the Bay Area, provides tag-team help; Bill handles the family's precarious finances from Los Angeles).

For all the misery they can engender, sweatshops at least offer a precarious escape from the poverty that is the developing world's greatest problem.