Sentence examples for precipitous one from inspiring English sources

It seems a good end to a life, if a precipitous one.

The report yesterday echoed that theme: "The current uncertainty surrounding climate change implies that a realistic policy should involved a gradual, measured response, not a risky, precipitous one".

Most forecasters, however, are predicting an orderly decline, not a precipitous one, in part because the dollar's decline so far has not hurt either the stock market or the bond market, where interest rates are still low relative to the economy's growth in the second half of last year.

The decline of 3Com has been so precipitous one might confuse its performance with a dot-com.

In January, when industrial production dropped by a precipitous one-third throughout Ukraine as a whole, in Donetsk it fell by half against the previous year.

"We don't want severe, precipitous cuts," one senior Energy Department official said yesterday.

The stem-cell building sits on an eye-poppingly impossible site: a narrow strip of land on a steep gradient, with mediocre hospital buildings on one side and, on the other, the precipitous, forested ridge of Mt. Sutro.

Hanging directly over the stairway, with a room on one side and a precipitous drop on the other, is the "mother-in-law's door," as Mr. Dumont called it.

The path skirts a vineyard, then veers up into the woods, emerging onto a corniche — a natural terrace with a rocky overhang on one side, and a precipitous drop on the other.

The monastery, a one-story hut balanced on an outcropping with precipitous drops on all sides, was surrounded by a four-foot-wide ledge that offered panoramic views of the fertile Tigrayan plateau.

Unbeknownst to him, Ms Bailey Rae had landed on one of the slightly gentler slopes on this precipitous cliff.