Sentence examples for state of precariousness from inspiring English sources
"Ours is a Darwinian world of insecurity and stress," he wrote, "where the permanent threat of unemployment creates a permanent state of precariousness".
Kate, for instance, has two children and was employed in radio production on a series of casual contracts, "living in a state of precariousness", she says.
If most "slums" don't enjoy adequate infrastructure, it is not because it is technically difficult or even expensive, but rather because there is a deliberate will to keep certain neighbourhoods in a state of precariousness and political dependency.
In addition to "The Living Room," they include a giant red M at a downtown commuter-train station and a house of cards surrounded by scaffolding, a symbol of Miami's state of precariousness.
All non-citizens in the United States live in a state of precariousness: one's visa or legal-resident status can be revoked on the basis of even a minor violation (jumping a subway turnstile can be interpreted as an act of "moral turpitude"), or because the President has said so.
A state of precariousness infuses her work, and this is one of the ways she connects with Finster -- through human vulnerability.
So despite her white-collar job and fancy diplomas, she remains in a state of financial precariousness.
On a spectrum from those who enjoy the legal and social benefits of citizenship to those whose right to nationality is outright refused, people with many kinds of status live in various degrees of precariousness within states that cannot or will not protect them.
In retrospect, voters' perceptions of the state's precariousness and Brownback's radical politics acted as mutual accelerants.
Both will increase the country's already deep sense of precariousness.
Ms. Nothomb potently distills from the state of infancy the intensity of beginnings, the precariousness, the trailed clouds of glory -- they are also deadly storm clouds with nothing angelic about them -- that grow indistinct as childhood approaches.
