The Director may waive the requirements of paragraph (1) if the Director determines that such a waiver would be equitable due to exceptional or uncontrollable circumstances such as a natural disaster or a precipitous and unforeseen decline in the financial resources of the State.
The Secretary shall waive the requirements of subsection (a), if the Secretary determines that such a waiver would be equitable due to exceptional or uncontrollable circumstances, such as a natural disaster or a precipitous and unforseen decline in the financial resources of a State or State educational agency, as appropriate.
"I believe that a precipitous withdrawal of American forces in Iraq could lead to disaster, spawning a civil war, fostering a haven for terrorists and damaging our nation's security and credibility," he said.
Despite widespread early reports of a precipitous drop in donations to nonprofit groups that are not providing disaster services, Ms. Crozier and the others said it was "too soon to tell" about the outcome of their current fund-raising efforts and whether the ad changes alone would ultimately account for advertising success or lack of it.
They weep because of the devastation of our mountains, because of the disaster of giant high walls, acid-laden benches, and bare, precipitous out-slopes which support no vegetation at all but erode thousands of tons of mud and rocks into the streams and rivers below.
Another disaster that didn't happen in the U.S. case is a precipitous decline in the foreign exchange value of the dollar, and for similar reasons.
The Retreat is appropriately named since it is falling apart and the unstable, precipitous atmosphere of a small village under the twin threat of murder and environmental disaster is efficiently drawn.
Obama's detractors, during the campaign, all agreed that any troop withdrawal Obama would be in charge of would be an unmitigated disaster for all concerned, because he would ignore "conditions on the ground" and begin a "precipitous withdrawal," twenty seconds after he was in office.
It was a precipitous fall.
Their fall has been precipitous.
Perspicacious or precipitous?
