Sentence examples for precarious sites from inspiring English sources

In a city like Caracas, where the poor want to live as close as possible to jobs in the city centre, most slums occupy precarious sites that are susceptible to landslides.

The Densu Delta in western Greater Accra is a prime example where buildings have been erected outside formally regulated urban development, in an ecologically precarious site.

It hangs 200 feet above Benedict Canyon in Los Angeles, cost more than a million dollars and took 13 years to complete because of its precarious site.

The long climb up and the hot days scratching away in the quarry gave me plenty of time to think about what compelled me to go to the precarious site.

Neighbours and relatives in the city find a precarious site where a shelter can be built out of industrial detritus - close to the bubbling black water of a stagnant canal, on the dangerous scree of a stony slope.

Seeing the vehicle in its precarious situation, the workers from the site moved a heavy duty forklift into position to support the vehicle until rescue personnel arrived.

The Roussanou Monastery is one of six precarious religious sites that rise out of Greece's rock cliffs.

"It's a precarious situation.

Microsoft is in a precarious situation.

The rainy season, beginning in March, will exacerbate an already precarious humanitarian situation for hundreds of thousands of people living in IDP sites across the country.

These romantic depictions of domestic service really efface the idea that this is a site of precarious, exploitative labour".