Sentences with phrase «in a precarious position»

The manufacturer is stuck in the precarious position of balancing a reasonable price against solid specs.

This can place workers injured in farm accidents in a precarious position as injuries sustained while farming are often serious, demanding both medical attention and extended periods away from work.

Smaller landlords who are in precarious positions with their mortgages are less likely to screen tenants effectively, out of a misguided desire to create cash flow by accepting any tenant at all.

The close election result leaves the PC government in a precarious position.

So it seems the proof remains in a precarious position.

Climate change is compounding the reef's woes as warming waters put corals in a precarious position to survive.

The industry is so enormous, it has the capacity to gloss over gaps in research and leave the consumer in a precarious position.

Along with the various insurance products available, they can be sure they don't leave their business in a precarious position.

I am in the precarious position of owning all 5 of the PS3 games, plus the two German replacements.

A buyer's agent who has to deal directly with the seller of another brokerage is in a precarious position as far as agency is concerned.

Thus, the Whiteheadian is not put in the precarious position of explaining how the Holocaust or Stalin's collectivization program are merely apparent evils.

Two draws against West Ham and Crystal Palace has put Arsenal in a precarious position in the League.

Due to the nature of overhead throwing biomechanics, the passive tissues consisting of ligaments, fascia and tendon - bone insertion points of overworked musculature are placed in a precarious position for injury, especially as frequencies and training loads are increased.

China will be left in a precarious position of either devaluing its currency to bail out the Southeast Asian countries, which would harm the domestic consumer, or letting Southeast Asia crater.

Caught up in the events of The War of the Five Kings, they are placed in a precarious position where members of the household must do everything they can to prevent the house from meeting its...

It could place us exactly back in a precarious position similar to the pre-recession circumstances.

The only issue with this distinction is that it puts mothers in a precarious position: they are seen as the ones to nurture the family and care for the children, but who will be there to care for them when they are not able to perform those duties?

[ii] Even when they do have jobs, young people are disproportionately likely to be in precarious positions such as zero - hour contracts, temporary contracts and unpaid internships.

But the tax caps put IPS in a precarious position because the district has low property wealth to begin with and property tax caps have siphoned off money from its transportation funds.

Most shops here in Vegas reported 85 % of tickets (or higher) being printed on the road favorite Patriots placing the house in a precarious position.

This puts the housing market in a precarious position: a large gap between prices and incomes, worsening affordability, and an indebted nation of homeowners less able to withstand economic shocks.

The interest rate increase places the Australian economy in a precarious position according to CPA Australia small business advisor Kerrie Clayton.

While retailers struggle with questions of prices, Schoenhaldt says there will always be someone who wants to buy better - tasting coffee, despite that rising costs put the specialty coffee in a precarious position.

There will be a million Arsenal fans shouting «I told you so» this week, as the double injury blow to Theo Walcott and Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain has left the Gunners in a precarious position for their next few games.

Spalletti's men currently sit in fourth place, the last qualification spot, but they're still in a precarious position with just a point separating them and Lazio.

Like a double - teamed player who has surrendered his dribble, Hornets forward Lee Nailon was in a precarious position last summer.

Arsenal have come out of the summer transfer window in a precarious position as major doubts remain over their ability to challenge for major honours.

And if Monster were to opt out, it places NASCAR in a precarious position for the second time in three years where the search for an entitlement sponsor becomes a pervasive cloud hanging over the season that overshadows what's happening on the track.

Johnson ran out of gas on the final lap of the postseason opener at Chicagoland Speedway (he finished 10th); he wrecked hard at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Oct. 15 after putting his number 48 Chevy in a precarious position (he wound up 34th); and he waited too long at Talladega Superspeedway to make his typical late - race charge from the back of the pack (he came in 26th).

The former French champions are prepared to activate the player's hefty # 195m release clause this summer, and this leaves the Catalan giants in a precarious position ahead of the new season.

With five minutes left to play in the Bernabeu last night, Real Madrid, Jose Mourinho and Christiano Ronaldo were all in a precarious position.

But with the rates of c - sections on the rise and a good percent of them not warranted it somewhat puts ins companies in a precarious position.

Firefighters are also attending reports of a crane in a precarious position following the crash.

One senior firefighter told reporters: «The crane is obviously in a precarious position, having had a helicopter hit it.»

Cameron started the year in a precarious position.

Obama twice won Katko's Syracuse - based district by double digits, leaving this freshman in a precarious position against Democrat Colleen Deacon.

«As counsel, we all are expected to assist the court and not to put the court in a precarious position.

That puts Republican Senate candidates in a precarious position as they try to hold Trump's base without losing general election voters.

Chronic underfunding for the $ 16 billion effort has left the Census Bureau in a precarious position as they prepare for Census Day on 1 April 2020.

But the team is wary of upsetting the lander, which came to rest in a precarious position on its side in November after bouncing around the comet in its microgravity environment.

Data received before the cut - off suggests the drill had reached 25 centimetres below the spacecraft, but with Philae standing in a precarious position, with one leg in the air, the drill may not make it to the surface to take a sample.

When he gets to the hotel he finds Chester in a precarious position involving an unconscious man.

Not quite a kids flick, but not entirely a grown - up movie, either, it sits in a precarious position whose discomfort counteracts the coziness of Scorsese's cinema - centric efforts.

The movie begins with Thor in a precarious position, captured and bound in chains by the fire demon Surtur, voiced by Clancy Brown.

We agree with Perry Zirkel's observation that special education is in a precarious position today and that those who care about the education of students with disabilities must speak out now if it is to be saved from a great fall -LRB-» «Backlash» Threatens Special Education,» Aug. 1, 1990).

This places the coach in a precarious position.

Like everyone else in Oakland, we are dismayed to find OUSD in this precarious position again — despite three consecutive years of per - pupil funding increases providing 28 % more in General Fund revenues even with flat enrollment.