Sentences with phrase «how precarious»

Some are unaware of how precarious a predicament they are in.

Anyone who has been in this business for any length of time, anybody who's been playing this crazy wonderful game of real estate knows how precarious our careers can be.

The recent extreme swings experienced by the broader market highlights how precarious the current boom is.

Even when the rains came, they emphasized how precarious much of the golden state's growth...

But while the statistics are sobering, they are nevertheless dry, and don't hold the same punch as if you saw visual evidence of how truly beautiful and fragile corals are, and how precarious their plight.

Which makes me wonder: How precarious is the financial health of the US banks and brokers that they need yet another year before they can, oh, I don't know — disclose what they own on their balance sheets?

To understand just how precarious things are, realize that last year's Borders» bankruptcy represented an enormous reduction in browsing space, shuttering 650 stores.

And that's awkward, not only because those SATs results might well have determined which set pupils were put into (around 60 per cent of schools use SAT scores for setting), but also because it shows how precarious the progress measure for any one school really is.

How precarious?

New research illustrates just how precarious willpower can be for young people: Middle school students who want to achieve a goal and who actively agree to suffer a consequence if they don't achieve it may still be unable to change their counterproductive behaviors.

It echoes Carson McCullers» own Southern family epic, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, in the way that one accident can ruin a future and steal dreams, and how precarious the class ladder really is.

I think it is always good to be reminded of how precarious life is and how **** ing lucky we are if we're not raised in a hellish place.

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.

Most people don't realize how precarious reason is, so they naively believe likely or unlikely arguments

And the understanding — how precarious, and how close each moment to misunderstanding, when the anguish of guilt seeks to disturb the peace of love!

I am not sure this is the time to do it, given how precarious the economy is.

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It's clear that he's thought long and hard about exactly how he advises young entrepreneurs on what they can realistically expect on their journeys, and the best ways to prepare themselves and their companies for the precarious paths ahead.

Making news over the weekend was a report from the United Way and McMaster University researchers about how half the residents of Southern Ontario have fallen into «precarious employment.»

On the back of strong foreign investor demand, Banker Middle East looks at how the appetite for GCC debt is expected to continue in 2018 despite precarious oil prices and geopolitical...

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...»

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?

Instead of being confronted with the ancient problem of how to explain death if everything around us exudes life, we now have to apologize for the precarious fact of life (and consciousness) if everything around us in our universe is intrinsically dead and mindless.

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.

Indeed, the examples given have specifically shown the precarious bases from which inferences about how texts operate are drawn.

That's before you consider Labour MPs with half an eye on the next government and the DUP propping the current one up... It is hard to predict how long this precarious political situation might last and what could come next, but time is ticking away.

SUNY Poly's seemingly precarious financial state — particularly since former president Alain Kaloyeros resigned in October after state and federal corruption charges were filed against him related to his oversight of bidding processes at two of the school's affiliated nonprofits — has been widely reported, but the internal documents offer a rare glimpse at how the crisis has been perceived and deliberated internally.

We are so grateful to have such strong leaders as Assemblymen Tedisco and McLaughlin who recognize the precarious state of our aging underground and forgotten infrastructure, and who understand how we can incorporate cost effective, new technologies — such as UV cured - in - place pipe lining — to provide New Yorkers with safe solutions to what is possibly the greatest challenge to our life - sustaining underground infrastructure that we have seen in generations,» said Mara Killburn, Managing Member, Precision Trenchless.

Just remember how fragile and precarious your thin support really is before you start throwing your weight around.

The icefish vividly illustrates how the fittest is a conditional and precarious condition.

But how can you watch the few hundred gorillas left in the world and not feel guilty about their precarious existence?

Four Fish by Paul Greenberg (Penguin Press) Salmon, bass, cod, and tuna — through this troubled quartet of dinner - table mainstays, journalist Greenberg skillfully tells the tale of how the world's fisheries got to be in such a precarious state.

«Our experiments emphasize how subtle and precarious the balance is,» says postdoctoral researcher and first author Yunyuan V. Wang.

How the extinction of the dinosaurs, Arctic methane leaks, and nuclear weaponry reveal the precarious thresholds of life on Earth.

The show will prove that no matter how much close proximity can lead a family to get on each other's nerves, precarious situations and interactions with strangers can bring them together again.

While pacing is all over the place and at least one composition seems spontaneous and precarious, characters gladly have their own distinct voices and talk and behave like people do and not just how one independent screenwriter thinks they do.

The fact that the first volume is such a stylistically bold and lovely achievement puts me in a bit of a precarious situation; how do you objectively assess a second half of a film and treat it as a whole?

-LSB-...] how powerless they felt because their jobs and livelihoods were precarious....

We'll never forget how Megan Abbott addressed the cunning powerplays and precarious hierarchies of high - school girl world in her dark and twisted novel, Dare Me.

Making the situation even more precarious is the fact that 89 % of Canadians aren't sure how recent federal budget changes could play a part in their personal tax filing.

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.

Finally, The Day the World Changed will return to the present through the resulting arms race, in an effort to espouse to participants the very precarious position we are all in, how close we are at any moment to another unspeakable tragedy, and the importance of public advocacy in the pursuit of abolishing nuclear weapons.

How are these individual and collective actions reflective of a precarious landscape?

Often this takes the form of an exploration of the conditions of possibility allowing these different practices to produce meaning, and of how this signifying function is a precarious, elliptical and rather ambiguous endeavor.

This precarious, athletic, and quasi-domestic act of labor ultimately raised questions of how action is gendered and classified, either as work or as play.

How about precarious heavy metal sheets by Richard Serra, or even the more comforting mass of Henri Matisse?

«She gave us hope and a recipe for how to evolve as anthropogenic agents of our own precarious future.»

Convening luminary artists, writers, activists, and scholars to discuss how technology is transforming culture, Open Score will consider how, in light of our precarious and violent political moment, digital forms are called upon to assist us with tasks that range from the banal to the most urgent.

Project Gallery: Bik Van der Pol Speechless, a new work by the Rotterdam - based artistic duo Bik Van der Pol (Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol), is a multi-layered exploration of how we speak about the precarious state of the natural world.

Pessoli has said, ``... I realize how fragile and subtle is this reassuring feeling; the boundary between feeling at home and feeling a stranger is fragile, precarious.