Sentences with phrase «as precarious»

Precarious work In Ontario, approximately 22 % of jobs could be characterized as precarious work, defined as having low wages and at least two of three other features: no pension, no union and / or small firm size.

Helicopter parenting aka overparenting has been reportedly deemed as a precarious strategy when it comes to child raising.

The Weliver family's dilemma brings up an all - too - familiar topic: health insurance as a precarious balancing act, where no single policy seems to offer every single feature you want.

Annual workshops have addressed such issues as precarious employment, myths and realities of early and safe return to work, participatory action research methods and tools.

But now, as a result of the Harper government's approach — an approach which, I might add, was never brought to Parliament for approval — we're now bringing more people into the country each year as precarious guest workers than as permanent residents and citizens.

Through a series of concrete and abstract geographies and their latent meanings, in A Staggering Territory Asbjørn Skou offers a critical perspective on contemporary urban planning and its consequences which are presented as a precarious terrain balancing between disaster and utopia.

2 Norment — whose installation Rapture, created for the 2015 Venice Biennale, referenced the history of hysteria, among other topics — here listens to the female voice.3 Far from simply offering a regressive experience, however, Lull allows visitors to observe the duality between voice and noise as a precarious border, a moment of disturbance, an instability of a living system, but gently so.

His situation was as precarious as hers but he chose to tow the party line to save himself always and Elsie over and over chose to the right thing at much risk.

In pre-revolutionary Russia, one's existence is as precarious as a fiddler on the roof.

The only pity is that she's stuck in a movie (directed by Roar Uthaug) that's about as precarious as some of the traps she has to navigate when she's finally thrust into a tomb.

Peter Stoger's position is not as precarious: the Austrian has won six and drawn five of his 12 games in charge to steer the club into the last 16 of the Europa League and into second spot.

Martin himself devotes considerable space to a comprehensive exegesis of the texts cited by Lumen Gentium 16 — especially St Paul's Epistle to the Romans — and demonstrates how, according to these texts, the situation of non-believers can only be considered as precarious.

If religion in today's world still supplies (in Peter Berger's words) the «sacred canopy» for our ordinary lives, it has surely become as precarious a canopy as the thinning ozone layer.

The two key marks of love as precarious and vulnerable set the discussion of God's powerful love moving in an entirely new direction.

A historical look at Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first one hundred days in office as well as the precarious events that led to his election.

Meanwhile, the number of people in «vulnerable» employment — such as self - employment — increased, adding to an outlook of the global employment landscape as precarious at best and deteriorating at worst as the global recovery takes time.

Not exact matches

CNBC's upcoming documentary on the subject, «A Billionaire's Bet: The Best & Brightest,» which airs Sunday, June 25 at 10 p.m. ET, profiles a small group of the chosen scholars as they embarked on the one - year program at a fascinating and precarious time in U.S. - China relations.

Instead of seeing this era as one of precarious insecurity, here's a positive take on job flexibility, possibility, work - life balance and empowerment.

While that's good news for the recruiting business, it might strike most Canadians as a little unsettling; working contract - to - contract can be a precarious existence.

It's a word that, here, does not so much connote an actual small - business owner as a feeling — an image of the young worker in the 21st - century gig economy who DJs on the weekends and, while almost certainly doing underpaid and entirely precarious labour, has earned the right to work from her local coffee shop in the slouchy drop - shoulder crewneck of her choice.

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.

I believe that the re-orientation of British politics under Corbyn and in particular of the Labour Party is highly beneficial, not only to the large strata within British society that have been discarded in the last 20 to 30 years, but interestingly also for British business that produces real stuff as opposed to the City of London and various other service sectors that produce precarious jobs and nothing much of substance.

«The way black women, in particular, have been constructed due to racist ideas, puts them in a very precarious position in the work environment, particularly as they try to ascend the ladder,» he told Fortune.

The ascendency of precarious work emerged over the last three decades as Canada's labour market was re-regulated to ensure the primacy of flexibility, commodification and individualism.

As you try to eliminate precarious jobs through red tape, employers come to fear the burden of new permanent employees.

Countries such as Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain all share common characteristics of strict rules regarding layoffs and contracting out — exactly the sort of thing precarious worriers favour here.

As we close out 2012, BC finds itself in some precarious economic waters.

In Europe, the reprieve was seen not as an act of conciliation or generosity but instead as another 30 days of precarious limbo that will disrupt supply networks and undermine what has been an unusually strong period of growth.

And he'll have to think twice about his increasingly precarious position as the modern - day Russian tsar.

The most significant problem, however, is that the market is strenuously overbought here, and many precarious technical conditions (such as an extremely low option volatility index - the VIX - and an extremely high McClellan Oscillator) are in place.

They look at the origins, work conditions, and precarious lives of farm workers in terms of larger historical forces such as colonialism, land rights, and racism.

Mr. Leitao described Quebec's situation as «very weak and precarious» compared to the rest of Canada and the United States.

As we saw in multiple early selloffs and recoveries near the 2007, 2000, and 1929 bull market peaks (the only peaks that rival the present one), the «buy the dip» mentality can introduce periodic recovery attempts even in markets that are quite precarious from a full cycle perspective.

The problem, as with so much that goes on in the energy sector, is that his company's consulting prospects are precarious, his health is uncertain, and when he can retire is unclear.

China's stock rally has come as a sharp contrast to the nation's slowing economy and is all the more precarious because it has been driven by unprecedented levels of margin financing, or investors» taking on debt to trade in shares.

Precarious workplace changes will require a reasonable income floor for folks to bridge as the economy seeks different skills.

OTTAWA — On a gloriously sunny morning recently, Larry O'Brien, the Mayor of Ottawa, sat and intently listened as a consultant outlined his city's precarious financial situation.

The news of Greek finance minister Varoufakis» resignation is being perceived as an incremental positive for negotiations, but we think the «No» vote in Greece over the first weekend in July, the precarious position of the Greek banking system, and eurozone policymaker distrust of the current Greek government have clearly raised the chances of a Greek eurozone exit.

It is not in our hands, and hence is precarious, according to the schemes of those who believe they can build their life as their own project.

Further, as I have said before, if this little precarious foothold upon earth is all that we are ever to know of conscious living, if in fact there is no life except the material and physical, those of us who are not particularly altruistic by nature would hardly think our labors and struggles worth while.

It is the perseverance in suffering, for it is as one thinker has said, «The comfort of temporal existence is a precarious affair.

If the basic situation of human life is set originally in complexity, any realization of harmony will be a precarious venture along the razor's edge between inclusion of discordant data as effective contrasts and their dismissal as incompatible values.

Sidney Hook captures this sense of the vulnerability of the human condition when he defines pragmatism as «the theory and practice of enlarging human freedom in a precarious and tragic world by the arts of intelligent social control it may not be [a] lost [cause] if we can summon the courage and intelligence to support our faith in freedom...» (CAP 193).

Just so far as his affection is turned on private interest, he will become regardless of the common good, and when he is detached from the community in heart, his services will be very precarious at best, and those will not be expected at all which imply self - denial.37

The question of what may happen to life some billions of years from now is perhaps too remote to have any consequence in our thinking, except as it reminds us of the precarious situation of all life.

That true but precarious position, as Ralph has shown us so eloquently, eludes theoretical articulation.

If we're afraid others won't get to Jesus as their answer, then we betray our own lack of trust in the «reason for the hope we have», which describes how precarious Christians can sound to the likes of Buddhists, Hindus and other universalists.

There, while clinging to one another for dear life as our bus swung precariously over Cochabamba's precarious mountain curves, we became fast friends.

Technical development is cumulative, but moral progress is more precarious, as the efficiency of the Buchenwald extermination camps reminds us.

As powerful as that moment of transformance was, it was a precarious one in the life of the liturgAs powerful as that moment of transformance was, it was a precarious one in the life of the liturgas that moment of transformance was, it was a precarious one in the life of the liturgy.