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precarious
1. I fear our position is more precarious than we think
2. All his screens were fully rendered in pieces of plastic furniture piled in precarious heaps
3. precarious a situation must sometimes occasion
4. Alec's patience was as precarious as a boulder dwarf dangling from a frayed thread
5. The possession, even of such farmers, however, was long extremely precarious, and still is so in many parts of Europe
6. The capital, however, that is acquired to any country by commerce and manufactures, is always a very precarious and uncertain possession, till some part of it has been secured and realized in the cultivation and improvement of its lands
7. A female’s lot was much too precarious in this harsh world
8. By suiting, besides, to one particular market only, so great a part of the industry and commerce of Great Britain, it has rendered the whole state of that industry and commerce more precarious and less secure, than if their produce had been accommodated to a greater variety of markets
9. The precarious subsistence which the chace affords, could seldom allow a greater number to keep together for any considerable time
10. ” He went off chivvying the rest of the men and we took off and managed after a few precarious minutes to reach the next bit of overhang
11. They had shown care and love at a very precarious time in my life and I loved them dearly
12. The revolutions which the turbulence of the Greek clergy was continually occasioning at Constantinople, as long as the eastern empire subsisted; the convulsions which, during the course of several centuries, the turbulence of the Roman clergy was continually occasioning in every part of Europe, sufficiently demonstrate how precarious and insecure must always be the situation of the sovereign, who has no proper means of influencing the clergy of the established and governing religion of his country
13. precarious tenure, and were liable to be turned out upon every slight disobligation either of the sovereign or of his ministers, it would perhaps be impossible for them to maintain their authority with the people, who would then consider them as mercenary dependents upon the court, in the sincerity of whose instructions they could no longer have any confidence
14. It may sound terrible but we always advise our clients to go after the man also and turn the heat on him personally based on precarious liability where possible
15. Secretary Alger wrote to Secretary Long, asking him to order the navy to force the Bay at once; but since the War Department had sent the army into its precarious position, disregarding the only feasible plan of co-operation with the fleet for joint attack, Secretary Long refused to overrule Admiral Sampson
16. This precarious mound was held in place by a single small keystone, the removal of which would cause the whole pile of rocks to come crashing down
17. It had been a precarious balancing act but one he couldn’t back away from
18. She did the other side, then each hind foot, with no hint of her precarious perch
19. I had graduated to the use of a cane (plus the leg braces) instead of the walker, but it was very precarious balancing on the stool before I had to jump up on the table
20. Everything hung in a precarious balance, and this was the push that could tip things over either way
21. The fact is the world is in the most precarious position it has ever been
22. A wizened old man was hunched over an over-sized book, while around him an assortment of various books, scrolls and maps lay strewn around at random; candles had been lit and left in precarious positions with or without holders, hot wax dribbling profusely
23. Despite the unhappy circumstances and their precarious situation, Hilderich barely managed to suppress an oncoming fit of the giggles
24. True, it was his quest of uncovering artifacts of old that led him to such a precarious position to attract the Patriarch’s attention in the first place, but he only did it because he believed it mattered
25. room was calm considering the precarious situation down the road at the Daiichi plant
26. precarious situation they were in
27. The Number Four Reactor is still a precarious situation that could trigger a world nuclear
28. The crew unloaded everything and carried it up the precarious trail dug into the cliff side to the top
29. They were hunter-gatherers who eked out a precarious existence in a hostile environment
30. As a street urchin I would attempt to steal into ancient medieval libraries created by our great Indian scholars such as Rabindranath Tagore, only to be beaten by a few precarious nobles
31. At the time of Roger’s visit to the Philippines, some of Metro Manila mayors were showing signs of uneasiness, not only for the precarious conditions of the squatters themselves, but also for the appearance of neglect and abandonment that those corridors of indigence represented for their respective city
32. Through the help of that priest, precarious as the situation was, Roger and Josie tried to live again as husband and wife
33. In Luke 19, we read the account of Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector who, during his meeting with Jesus, came to realize his precarious position both spiritually and in the community and made the decision to change
34. well, wouldn’t it? And to me, it’s obvious that such precarious
35. truth that was so precarious that their whole world, and
36. Apophis had shown me about our mother’s precarious situation in the Duat
37. Her life was precarious and
38. have been honored by it, except her situation was precarious, to say
39. squeeze what joy they could from a precarious relationship
40. They exited the cavern and continued their precarious hike downward
41. Two hours later he brought me down a cup of coffee, a newspaper open at the review of the previous night"s Opening, and a precarious smile
42. I was a bit harsh on you, but it’s desperately important that you understand the precarious position we’re in
43. ‘Think carefully before you dump that for a precarious life with us
44. In view of John's precarious situation, Jesus began definitely to plan his program of public labors in behalf of his people and the world, in behalf of every inhabited world throughout his vast universe
45. Although not sheer, it was still a dangerous and precarious way up
46. At the cessation of hostilities, he had chosen to stay on in Africa, moving to Maputo and had invested all his accumulated army pay in a small tract of land on which he farmed, earning a somewhat precarious living
47. The arrangement was precarious, but it worked
48. precarious position with the church and that her reputation
49. Life on the Maasai Mara is precarious at best, and life expectancy is far shorter than in the West
50. Your lives hang in a very precarious balance