Sentence examples for precarious status from inspiring English sources

In "The Embassy of Cambodia," Smith captures the precarious status of an Ivorian maid's position in London — perhaps the precariousness of life for any recent immigrant who has been forced to leave a homeland — but, more than that, she captures everything that makes it impossible to reduce the woman, Fatou, to a type or a statistic.

Not that our precarious status as a democracy inhibits us from lecturing.

Both men in fact share the precarious status of being regarded as contested presidents.

In the White House, he has a lofty but precarious status.

But the precarious status of an illegal immigrant makes them easy victims for exploitation, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.

Her arrival threatens the already precarious status quo of the holidaymakers, and the novel can be seen as a series of doomed attempts at damage limitation.

Precarious employment status (HR=1.17; 95% CI 1.00 to 1.37) was associated with worsening self-rated health status in this study (table 2).

Thujone remains fundamental to the notoriety of absinthe and its precarious legal status.

The resulting precarious legal status of unions frightened prospective members, and union fortunes waned.

They are yet another group of workers in 21st-century Britain anxious about their precarious employment status.

In addition to anger over cuts, foster carers are increasingly fed up at their precarious legal status.