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"volatile circumstances" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a situation that is uncertain or unpredictable. For example, "Given the volatile circumstances in the region, it is difficult to make any reliable predictions about the outcome."
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The union last struck the city's commercial buildings in 1996, under volatile circumstances.
UNDER far less volatile circumstances, Hollywood's influence on public life was underscored the other day by the Bronx's own Supreme Court justice, Sonia M. Sotomayor.
It's quite clear that in these very, very volatile circumstances after the overthrow of Morsi, Mubarak's release will be interpreted as a political and not a judicial move.
In another year, under less volatile circumstances, Rutgers's 30-27 defeat of No. 2 South Florida on Thursday night might have carried more shock value.
But if you're getting too much raw data, rather than the right data, selected and meaningfully combined into usable information, you won't have time to turn it into the understanding required to make decisions in volatile circumstances.
"We stand by our assertion that officers acted responsibly and professionally during the riot and believe our officers made reasonable decisions during extremely volatile circumstances," Sternbeck wrote recently, in an e-mail.
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In addition, nearly 900 permit holders were convicted of drunken driving, a potentially volatile circumstance given the link between drinking and violence.
It's nonsensical to blame people for "poor choices" or a lack of financial literacy when their volatile economic circumstances would challenge the skills of a finance MBA.
This newer, postbureaucratic or performance-based approach has emerged in the private sector as industries have sought flexibility to adapt to more volatile economic circumstances and to the demand for more differentiated products.
They are an even bigger test of this than the Korean Peninsula, for the security equation there is largely frozen, whereas in Afghanistan and Pakistan it is very volatile indeed, as circumstances surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden have emphasized.
Muammar Qaddafi's death today — in volatile, still unexplained circumstances, at the hands of Libyan rebels in Surt — is the second in a series of a new genre of "before your eyes" news events that could be called Deaths of Former Dictators.
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