Sentence examples for precarious land from inspiring English sources

"Slum-dwellers occupying low-lying precarious land are the most vulnerable to environmental stresses and flooding events," says urban geographer Colin McFarlane, who has studied water and sanitation issues in the worst-hit slums towards the west and east of the city.

With tacit government approval, invasions occur on inexpensive, often topographically precarious land.

In such scenes, we feel his passion for his forebears' scenically rich but economically precarious lands.

At the precarious landing area on Skellig Michael, there was a queue of boats, but the wait was worth it.

Risk is exacerbated by the presence of the object itself — the launching point instantly becomes an obstacle — and the sometimes precarious landing zones, in places like river gorges.

As noted by Ompad [ 16], "slum dwellers are often a particularly vulnerable group for a variety of reasons including precarious or nonexistent land tenure, lack of urban resource infrastructure, and tenuous relationships with governments and law enforcement" (p. i43).

His counterstroke made the success of the Salerno landing precarious for six days, and it was not until October 1 that the 5th Army entered Naples.

In Scotland, testamentary disposition of land remained precarious until the enactment of the Titles to Land Consolidation Act in 1868.

ALBUQUERQUE — To hit the campaign trail with a presidential candidate often is to journey into a land of precarious economics, where talk of globalization and corporate synergies yields to more prosaic questions: How do I make it through this week, and the one after that?

Most of them are agro-pastoral societies living under precarious conditions, and whose land shows marked signs of degradation.

From wars to space mishaps, Damon has had multiple movie characters -- Private Ryan in "Saving Private Ryan," Mark Watney in "The Martian," Mann in "Interstellar" -- land in precarious situations that require rescuing.