Sentences with phrase «become precarious»

Fay Faraday, a lawyer and visiting professor at Osgoode Hall Law School who has written leading reports on migrant worker rights, disagrees, «Access to permanent residence has become precarious and unpredictable.

The Court of Appeal said that this was «imponderable» and that «the consequences of the UK's departure from the EU are presently unclear, and there is no sound basis on which courts can factor in the hypothetical possibility that an EU national's immigration position might at some future date become precarious».

Through the act of painting, the arrangements become precarious, or the books larger than life — in each scenario the books are located just outside of reality.

Jack W. Perry, a publishing consultant, said that Barnes & Noble's position had become precarious.

During pregnancy, it can become a precarious balance between the weight gain needed to support a healthy baby (and mom) and too many extra pounds.

They warned that the nation's security would likely become precarious under Abubakar whose link to Chad was investigated by the intelligence agency.

The position of the teachers became precarious and finally in AD 489 the emperor Zeno expelled them.

The suffering of Belgium, as a whole, may plausibly be interpreted as punishment for national sin, but when individual personality is singled out and the character and fortunes of Cardinal Mercier, let us say, are clearly visualized and deeply cared about, then the formula, «all suffering is deserved punishment,» becomes precarious if not incredible.

We break from thetimber onto the barren hillside and the wind slams us with such vehemence thatbalance becomes precarious.

One misjudged placement, and the stroller becomes a precarious Jenga tower.

Once the common dividends are omitted, or even in danger, his own position becomes precarious, for the directors are under no obligation to continue paying him unless they also pay on the common.

And speaking of, young Tony O'Reilly's position as CEO is becoming precarious as shareholders count their losses, and Daddy's 15.5 % stake is likely to be sold out from under him.

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However, what has happened is the bond note has become the major medium of exchange after actual US dollar stocks diminished to precarious levels.

Pete is right that the powerful argument against the 9 -9-9 plan is that it would be a big tax increase for the middle middle - class, those Americans who often didn't go to college and whose lives are becoming increasingly precarious and pathological.

From the point of view which we have been developing it becomes apparent that the citizens of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. need each other in order to play out their despair; they need to have a scapegoat against which to battle in order to fortify their precarious sphere of existence.

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

They wanted everyone to become a believer of course — to assent to the reality of God and God's providence, justice and compassion, and thus find a confidence for living in this precarious world.

Yet, unless the Messianic future is to become ever - elusive and thus irrelevant, its «linking with a possible present, however precarious, is indispensable.

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

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 political situation of Judah was becoming more precarious; the people had seen Samaria swallowed up by Assyria a century before, and now the new Babylonian octopus was extending its tentacles from the East.

The precarious science of printing with chocolate involves bringing the three shades of confectionery to temperatures between 34c and 38c, after which point they will become too runny to form an accurate image.

Although it's never ideal to throw a new signing straight into the first team, especially a player who arrives without any pre-season build - up in January, needs must, especially given Arsenal's precarious position in the title - race, 12 years since they last became champions of England.

The arrival of Morata will be welcomed by several members of the Chelsea squad, who have become concerned at the precarious situation the club find themselves in.

Information reaching The aL - hAJJ indicates the task of forming government to deliver on President Akufo - Addo's mouthwatering promises is gradually becoming an unbearable cross for the President to carry as hardliners in the governing New Patriotic Party are worsening his already precarious plight dictating who gets appointment.

Mr. Heastie becomes one of the three most powerful elected officials in the state at a particularly precarious time.

And thus as research funding and careers become ever more precarious, the groves of academe now reverberate to the sound of bandwagons carrying hordes of physicists on what they hope will be a voyage of discovery — but which could take them round and round in circles.

«Norman is at that very precarious stage of adolescence where he's figuring out what it is to become a man,» Farmiga says.

We feel like we're right in the middle of the action, as the claustrophobia of each hole the men try to protect themselves with becomes ever more precarious.

Prince's performance feels so natural that it almost doesn't feel like acting — at least, until the emotional stakes get more precarious, and then it becomes clear that Prince is a precocious young talent who knows exactly what she's doing.

As O'Brien notes, a system of school choice would sever the ties between housing and education, which is a policy that could keep «many people from becoming cash - poor and wealthy — a precarious thing — in the first place.»

Aemilia becomes the mistress of Lord Hunsdon, but her position is precarious.

In theory, this bid should be very welcome — KMR's financial situation's become somewhat precarious — but I'm pretty sure management (& shareholders?)

As we travel down this impossible road, passing through incredibly long tunnels, making use of concrete bridges that hug the walls in the most precarious way, we realise how one - dimensional our perception has become.

The game even allows you to grapple and reach precarious heights that definitely parallels the heart of this series and my only gripe with the level design is that it does become a little repetitive but thankfully the graphics and gameplay is entertaining enough to draw you in.

The»90s kids have grown up into a world that's only become increasingly precarious.

Becoming is a precarious state.

Art dealers have become easy scapegoats in today's irrationally exuberant art world, but it's worth remembering that most have fairly precarious existences and that they're absolutely essential: They take chances on artists, create opportunities for them and, ideally, sell work so that they can continue making.

From time to time, the imbalance between too little demand and too much uncontrollable supply in Ontario's electricity system becomes so precarious that grid operators in Michigan and New York can actually compel Ontario to pay them to take it the power.

All of these things point to a precarious future for our species — a business - as - usual scenario will mean some six feet of sea level rise and some regions of the world becoming uninhabitable or disappearing under rising seas by the end of the century.

As with most drop test experiments, the drops become higher and more precarious as the video plays on.

Thanks to the second income contributed by a working spouse, households are buying larger, more expensive homes, putting themselves in a precarious financial position should one of the earners become unemployed, according to «The Two - Income Trap: Why Middle Class Fathers and Mothers are Going Broke» (Basic Books), by Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Warren.

Meanwhile, the risk environment has become more precarious.

Prior to its signing the lease, the Owner became aware of the Tenant's precarious financial condition due to an accounting scandal and refused to sign the lease.