Sentence examples for with parlous from inspiring English sources
Rangers are a club with parlous finances, dependent on journeyman and making great demands of David Weir, a 40-year-old centre-back who should take pride in this result for the rest of his days.
Because we are going to have to live with this lugubrious marriage of words in months to come (along with parlous, a hifalutin variant of "perilous"), it might offer some comfort to unbutton the frayed collar of its extensive etymology.
Still his familiarity with the parlous state of American financial firms especially those with ties to the subprime crisis would have been attractive to Wachovia's board, as would his contacts inside the Washington Beltway.
At the centre is the world's favourite failing carrier, Japan Airlines (JAL), with its parlous balance sheet.
But do the films of 29 March carry sweet portents for the future of Britain or offer any amusing analogies with our parlous situation?
India has also wisely kept generals out of politics (a lesson ignored elsewhere in Asia, not least by Pakistan, with usually parlous results).
To persuade the investors to take on such a tricky job in a country with such parlous politics, the government agreed to forgo its share of the revenues until they had recouped their costs.
Media Reform was established in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal in order to bring together academics and civil society organisations concerned with the parlous state of British news publishing.
This time there was not the immensity of the first innings when he had to deal with a parlous position of 139 for five and he was able to enjoy himself, hitting his first six in Test cricket, something Trott is still waiting to do after 38 Tests.
Falwell's own explanation for these things, as one might imagine, has to do with the increasingly parlous state of the nation and the sense of crisis he and other Americans began to feel in the mid-seventies.
