Sentences with phrase «already precarious situation»

It's already a precarious situation: according to Reuters, because of a clogged housing supply, property prices in Ordos and other cities like Beijing and Shanghai have dropped since the summer, prompting a wave of protests from buyers who previously paid the full price on their homes.

False solutions are solutions that are promoted as effective means to fight climate change when in fact not only they do not help in cutting emissions and slowing down warming (in some cases even worsening the already precarious situation), but they shift the focus away from real solutions.

Especially if you're struggling to make your payments and may be delinquent or in default, you don't want to worsen an already precarious situation.

Many people suffer from all of the above on a daily basis and also may smoke, drink too much, or even overtrain athletically, compounding an already precarious situation.

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The coalescence of factors that are contributing to high food prices has often been described as a perfect storm — an apt choice of words, considering the extent to which bad weather has made an already - precarious situation even worse.

With the precarious wage - related situation Arsenal are in, you'd be sure they'd already offload at least two players to meet the wage demands of the two players in question.

«I think medical bills are something that a lot of families are having a lot of difficulty with and whether it's the direct cause of bankruptcy or whether it helps to push them over the edge because they already were in a precarious financial situation, it's a big concern and hopefully that's what medical reform will try to address,» he says.

Yet most consumers who are targeted by these companies are unable to meet the savings requirements because of their already - precarious financial situation.

She spent time in the city's southeast neighborhoods, researching the toll of gang violence on families and pondering the effects of such violence on those whose impoverished living conditions were already precarious, creating situations which Salcedo has described as «social death» or «death in life.»

«This situation, coupled with the already precarious affordability situation for buyers, can lead to a self - fulfilling prophecy of sorts for the market as a whole, one where buyers rush to purchase homes at or above asking price in fear of waiting too long and losing out — pushing prices up and pulling marketing times even lower,» Villacorta says.