Sentences with phrase «by precarious»

They are very real... And every investor knows that their financial future is hanging by precarious thread.

One neat gag has defending attorney Charles Cooper's rhetoric undermined by a precarious logo attached to his podium.

The play follows the activities of both Labour and Conservative whips» offices, as they battle for the favour of the «odds and sods» — angry Scots raging about devolution, some drunken Irish, and Liberals in beige checked flares — in order to hold influence in the House governed by a precarious and potty - mouthed Labour minority.

I think that the strength can be explained by the precarious global economic and monetary situations, but the point is that a knowledgeable and unbiased observer of the markets shouldn't be scratching his / her head or feeling the need to get creative when coming up with justifications for gold's current US$ price.

Although there have been significant gains in employment, most of the high paying jobs that were once available in manufacturing during the height of the Auto Pact have been replaced by precarious service industry jobs with much lower rates of pay.

Secure, well - paying jobs are being replaced by precarious jobs with no security or benefits.

Not exact matches

Once a modest - size Medicaid provider, the managed - care company has expanded quickly — vaulting from No. 453 to 66 on the Fortune 500 in five years» time — and it has done so, in part, by entering markets that rivals have fled (Medicare Advantage, prison health care, the precarious Obama - care exchanges).

And by alienating consumers who do have money, retailers inadvertently put themselves in a precarious situation.

By setting up first - rate plans, you'll go a long way toward ensuring management continuity — especially during the precarious early days of management succession.

Yet most precarious work is done entirely by choice.

In August, the Law Commission of Ontario released Vulnerable Workers and Precarious Work, a study motivated by «the need to reduce precarious woPrecarious Work, a study motivated by «the need to reduce precarious woprecarious work.»

With an image of the Bastille being stormed by a rabble of freelance writers, part - time cooks and itinerant Caribbean fruit pickers in mind, perhaps it's relevant to consider the current situation in Europe, where generations of abundant labour regulation have robbed much of the Continent of employment flexibility — sorry, precarious work.

Canada's economic context at the time of Election 2011 is one of «precarious recovery», and overall demand conditions are weakened by a few major factors.

Current and recent projects include «Immigrants and Precarious Employment» (with P. Landolt); the «Poverty and Employment Precarity in Southern Ontario» research alliance (directed by W. Lewchuck and in collaboration with the UWGTA); the «Agency Data on Migration» project (directed by A. Kim); and «Negotiating the Boundaries of Rights and Membership» (directed by P. Landolt).

The financial system is in precarious condition barely held together by a patchwork of negative interest rates, currency manipulation, and misguided confidence.

But the lawsuit she filed this week, seeking to break a 2016 agreement to keep silent in return for a $ 130,000 payout, opens what could be a precarious new legal front for a White House already beset by the investigation by the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.

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.

How I hope I am wrong about this, misled by a two - minute trailer, but more bad signs are present in the studio's promotional blurb: «Coriolanus is a drama for the ages, a commentary on the precarious draw of war...»

The appeal to authority of Cicero's defense, his own and that of the Republic, is a call for a precarious community of political and social process to remain united by commonly held principles of justice.

At the moment, there is a precarious balance between Muslims and Christians, with Muslims making up some 34 per cent of the population and Ethiopia being courted by some of the oil - rich Arab states.

The Ferangi Mahal school at Lucknow, which was originally founded by Qutbuddin in the time of Aurangzeb and which produced many distinguished ulama, is losing its influence, but the Deoband continues its precarious existence.

At every moment the vast and horrible Thing breaks in upon us through the crevices and invades our precarious dwelling - place, that Thing we try so hard to forget but which is always there, separated from us only by thin dividing walls: fire, pestilence, earthquake, storm, the unleashing of dark moral forces, all these sweep away ruthlessly, in an instant, what we had laboured with mind and heart to build up and make beautiful.

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.

Attempts by the academic community to erase distinctions between levels of intensity, and the «ends» of which Aristotle spoke, leave little room for the civility that is one of our society's almost accidental inventions and one of its most cherished if precarious achievements.

I'm not handing reality too well right now, looks like my precarious hope in sexual equality and understanding being a close reality has been shattered by the truth of what is.

by Lorne Gunter, National Post, August 28, 1999 and «The Precarious Triumph of Human Rights» by David Rieff, New York Times Magazine, August 8, 1999.

Having rejected the «precarious security» provided by «a will in the community independent of the majority,» America would give the extended republic a try.

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).

Evil structures are indeed precarious, but evil structures are not automatically followed by something better.

Finally, it is a fragile and superficial structure, shedding a haphazard light on our lives, maintaining and propagating itself by grace of circumstances that are in themselves precarious and changeable: how can we compare it to those deep, underlying determinisms which impose an ineluctable course upon the advance of Life?

The diminution, if not complete exclusion, of the feminine from our global culture is at the root of the precarious imbalance caused by independence, self - sufficiency, exploitation, domination, and so forth.

We would wage war upon false optimism; on the base hope of happiness coming to us ready made; on the notion of a salvation by knowledge alone, or by material civilization alone, vain symbol as this is of civilization, precarious external arrangement, ill - fitted to replace the intimate union and consent of souls.

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.

But they need to be complemented by something else if they are not to remain precarious, insufficient and incomplete.

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.

By the year 1914 political independence from Western peoples was preserved only in the shrinking, badly weakened Turkish Empire; in Arabia, where encroachments had begun in Aden; in Ethiopia, with a precarious insecurity in its mountain fastnesses; in Persia, partly partitioned in Russian and British spheres of influence; in Afghanistan, a mountain buffer state between the British and Russian empires; in Thailand (Siam as it was then known), relatively safe because the British and the French, eyeing each other from Burma and Indo - China, would not permit either to annex it; in China, technically independent, but in fact occupied by Western powers who fixed the tariffs and whose citizens had extraterritorial status, and partially carved into spheres of influence; and in Japan, and from the 1850's into 1890's the independence of Japan had been compromised by the extraterritorial privileges of Westerners and the lack of full tariff autonomBy the year 1914 political independence from Western peoples was preserved only in the shrinking, badly weakened Turkish Empire; in Arabia, where encroachments had begun in Aden; in Ethiopia, with a precarious insecurity in its mountain fastnesses; in Persia, partly partitioned in Russian and British spheres of influence; in Afghanistan, a mountain buffer state between the British and Russian empires; in Thailand (Siam as it was then known), relatively safe because the British and the French, eyeing each other from Burma and Indo - China, would not permit either to annex it; in China, technically independent, but in fact occupied by Western powers who fixed the tariffs and whose citizens had extraterritorial status, and partially carved into spheres of influence; and in Japan, and from the 1850's into 1890's the independence of Japan had been compromised by the extraterritorial privileges of Westerners and the lack of full tariff autonomby Western powers who fixed the tariffs and whose citizens had extraterritorial status, and partially carved into spheres of influence; and in Japan, and from the 1850's into 1890's the independence of Japan had been compromised by the extraterritorial privileges of Westerners and the lack of full tariff autonomby the extraterritorial privileges of Westerners and the lack of full tariff autonomy.

Patterns of physico - chemical activity, for example, may never deviate from strict routines, but the harnessing of these invariable patterns by higher dimensions into animate or conscious organic structures is precarious.

This changing role of cults — from the haven of a few eccentrics to a real threat to core American values — is possible because the American civil religion has itself been made precarious by trivialization and corruption.

I do soups in mine by pouring hot liquid into it (which is a bit precarious).

The size and state of grapes implies that they can totally plug youngsters» aviation routes, with the tight seal created by organic product's smooth, adaptable surface making them precarious to move with medical aid moves.

Precarious Perch on plunging bow of yawl Spray is taken by crewman who watches as hastily repaired genoa jib is rehoisted.

The fact that both of those wins were decided by one - possession margins could be framed as an indication of Loyola - Chicago's precarious survival so far.

1 Cleveland Indians As usual, precarious pitching will be saved by hitting, which may be even better

Do we take a short fix (1 - 2 years) ala ancelotti to stabilise the club in the precarious situation we are right now and then entrust the club to a younger hungry coach like tuchel, Nagelsmann or try to build another long - term solution by launching young legends like viera, arteta, henry or bergkamps in the deep end hoping to find another guardiorla.

In an excellent article posted by ESPN, Vegas oddsmakers explain the precarious position they find themselves in.

First, because he didn't actually hit Escobar; and second, because pitchers are walking clouds of potential calamity with faberge elbows, and you don't need to screw up that precarious balance by accidentally missing the butt.

Perversely, though, it was tempting to group Palace among January's winners — after all, despite their precarious financial position the only other departee of note was teenage forward Victor Moses, who, pursued by a clutch of suitors from the Championship and beyond, was always going to move on anyway while they managed to keep hold of Darren Ambrose, Neil Danns and Nathaniel Clyne.

The 26 - year - old has since hit out as the Welsh side, as reported by the Guardian, stating that he can not understand why they didn't play him despite the precarious predicament they find themselves in.

BERLIN: Under - pressure Borussia Dortmund coach Peter Bosz admitted a win over Schalke in Saturday's Bundesliga derby is now crucial for his precarious position, following his team's home defeat by Tottenham Hotspur.

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.