Sentence examples for precarious predicament from inspiring English sources

"Following major storms, homeowners recognizing their precarious predicament built so-called erosion protection structures to protect their property," it said.

The ever more precarious predicament, the determination to guard against unemployment and loss of social status, and the aspiration towards better conditions, all explain the quest for social improvement through higher education, at the same time as the declining appeal of vocational training in favour of more academic studies.

Now, buying out Microsoft, NBC heads firmly into the internet news business: arguably, a more precarious existential predicament even than television news.

Thus did the tyrant demonstrate that the fortunes of men who hold power are as precarious as the predicament in which he had placed his guest.

It is an arrangement as unstable as the lives of the kingdom's inhabitants, and the precarious nature of their predicament is expressed in the constant bobbing motion of the platform beneath their feet.

The Bulls spent more than two months in administration this campaign and he admits that the precarious nature of their predicament made him reconsider his position as a professional sportsman.

From its postwar origins to the present, the chemotherapist's predicament is the precarious balance between best-practice care and the crying need to improve current practice.

But after weighing the city's predicament and the precarious state of the forest and its wildlife, Jim M. Upchurch, the forest supervisor at Coronado, issued a split decision: bulldozers and tractors would be allowed in the lowest of the damaged areas to move truck-size boulders that had crashed onto the pipe, but they could not be used elsewhere.

Two months ago, Coach Jeff Van Gundy of the Knicks said that his predicament involving the swingman Glen Rice was a precarious one.

Jongeling, T. B. & Koetsier, T. The predicament of the African wild dog, Lycaon pictus, is less precarious than claimed.

This extraterrestrial predicament provides the novel's guiding metaphor: in Prague, characters move in precarious orbit around a stolen icon.