But his domestic position is rather precarious.
Jones and Howell both gained enough rating points to jump into the world top 100 so that England now has six GMs there – Adams, Matthew Sadler, Luke McShane and Nigel Short are the others – though this situation is rather precarious as three of the slots are between 91 and 100.
Meg teaches in a secondary school and Nick is a philosophy lecturer at a new university: his academic position, it turns out, is rather precarious, owing to a faculty row – and here Kureishi may be influenced by the fictions of JM Coetzee and Philip Roth, although the dispute is not dwelt upon.
But the existence of such an entity seems to be rather precarious.
It should be noted that the state of preservation of the paintings is rather precarious, because of the particular technique used for their realization.
People with two-and-a-half homes mocking three-homers for ostentation - it's a rather precarious basis for feeling that yours is the right way of being rich, isn't it?
I don't mean, necessarily, that they're acting, just that there is something rather precarious about their manner.
"I was in a rather precarious situation when this project was proposed to me," Mr. Ribes said by phone from Paris, referring to his post-prison finances.
Trump himself is in a rather precarious position on Ryancare.
