Sentence examples for precarious role from inspiring English sources

Which means that we have been assigned the precarious role of the enabling artist.

Lebanon, for instance, is an intricate patchwork of sects and political factions where the army plays the precarious role of a middleman.

If intermediaries overcome challenges regarding positioning, representation and the level of proactivity, they can play a precarious role in demand articulation in the context of new technologies.

Somehow those words got stuck in my head and in 2008 I started an online coaching and support business for women in the precarious role of stepmom.

As Perlin says, the word itself is a "smokescreen, lumping together an explosion of intermittent and precarious roles".

Being a caretaker can be a precarious position, but whatever role I have with the club I will do to the best of my ability.

In sum, this study addresses that the reduction in working hours could be a better measure for labour protection, when coupled with improvements in other adversities tied to gender and socioeconomic status (i.e., traditional gender role and precarious job characteristics).

The soprano Nina Warren, who gave a vocally precarious performance in the title role, has withdrawn from the run because of illness, it was announced.

And it was only at that moment that I realized he was as much a part of the family as everyone, even if his role seemed more precarious.

The potentially precarious thing about Ms. Jarrett's role, said some Washington veterans, is that it is based on a friendship that will be transformed when Mr. Obama becomes the president and Ms. Jarrett his employee.

When Selznick lent his wife out to other producers, he often chose badly — turning down the classic film noir "Laura," for example, or insisting that she star as the mentally ill Nicole Diver in the film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender Is the Night" when she was both too old for the role and in precarious mental health herself.