Sentences with phrase «into precarious»

If you've read my column before, you know that I've gotten myself into a precarious situation or two.

To sacrifice your retirement for the sake of your child's college education only puts both you and your child into a precarious situation that may not manifest for years.

Here are some guidelines so you can collect the need - to - know information without stepping into precarious legal territory.

In «Graphite / Dolman,» David Brooks piles chunks of opulent unrefined graphite into a precarious sculpture, making a wall drawing in the process.

Found materials including building supplies, automobiles and debris are arranged into a precarious landscape of consumer culture.

The 2 posters take a popular quote from Tony Blair in 1997 «the future, not the past» which seemed to nicely sum up the moronic ideology of contemporary politics to both want to move forwards into the precarious automation of techno capitalism, whilst also regressing into the cozy nostalgia of nationalism.

Ceramic corpses of flesh - hued ceramic arteries twist and spill above, between, and beneath a modular grid that puddles into precarious pickles and tubular formations.

In each work, images enter into a precarious state; Barroca unravels, reassembles, dislocates, and obscures his images in ways that trace their movements, mutations, and transformations across historical and cultural bounds.

However, Twombly's work is remarkable, in part, because we always see him combining both ideas, collapsing them into a precarious equilibrium.

Margin of Error delves into the precarious world of technology we have built — the man - made disasters of shipwrecks, explosions, crashes — through a variety of forms, including graphic designs, industrial artifacts and paintings created by Man Ray, Margaret Bourke - White and others.

Have you ever wanted to be a Bond - level secret agent, thrust into precarious scenarios and tasked with getting out alive?

It drives my husband crazy and has often put me into precarious situations!

But cats also have a keen sense of curiosity, which can lead them into precarious and sometimes dangerous situations.

If you place yourself into a precarious financial position by putting one child through college what will you do when your other children come along?

His young male narrators are teetering into precarious adolescence.

As the launch date approaches, their astronaut — 17 - year - old Matha Mwambwa — must decide if getting into their precarious rocket vindicates her traumatic past or just makes her a glorified human sacrifice.

She's placed into precarious scenarios multiple times.

P.S. I just found this on my phone, hubs sent me photos of Wyn photoshopped into precarious situations the ONE night I spent away from him.

Last week I was pulling into the precarious parking lot of my yoga studio.

NIH Director Francis Collins worried that hESC research «has been thrust into a precarious state» and warned that some scientists may abandon their hESC work or move overseas to continue it.

The company began to notice the results when the strategy was first executed; but the company's leaders were put into a precarious position, since 85 percent of their customers were coming from organic search.

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When the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance dutifully looked into youth unemployment last summer, it heard familiar tales of outrage and woe from university student groups and organized labour fretting about student debt, precarious work and temporary foreign workers.

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.»

First, despite the large flow of foreign saving into the United States, our international financial position does not appear precarious at the present time.

To not have power — to be literally and figuratively in the dark — is to leave the modern world and retreat into an older and more precarious one.

Narratives remain on the «objective» plane, and it is indeed precarious to read into them what we think the characters in the narrative might have been thinking or feeling.

Let us grant that universal suffrage is no panacea, that the new institutions of India are quite precarious, that the people may vote themselves into totalitarianism.

Its progress, like every progress of love, must be an angular progress — in which each step is a precarious step into the unknown; in which each triumph contains a new potential of tragedy, and each tragedy may be redeemed into a wider triumph; in which, for the making of that which is truly an «other,» control is jeopardised, lost, and, through activity yet more intense and vision yet more sublime, regained; in which the divine creativity ever extends and enlarges itself, and in which its endeavour is ever poised upon the brink of failure.

Perhaps our actual situation in the world is precarious enough to drive some people — especially those with extensive possessions to lose — into a defensive form of hysteria and a search for scapegoats.

Many things begin to come apart where the link between fatherhood and a husband's love for his wife is denied, and children begin to be born into a very, very precarious world.

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 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.

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

But it all feels so precarious — every hole is a new opportunity to turn a 68 into a 72 or a 72 into a 76.

This string of phenomenal performances has turned every Arrieta start into must - watch baseball and has put oddsmakers in a very precarious position.

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.

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.

We continue to discuss the possibility of Stoke being dragged into a relegation dogfight simply because their position is a precarious one, not to mention their recent form being so hit and miss.

Many parents manage the precarious job of bathing babies by climbing into the tub with them.

The precarious balance of edgy egos and vaulting ambitions was maintained by the allure of opportunities to recoup, re-strategize and rebound in the corridors of the Presidency which have now fizzled into a mirage.

In the little more than three months since Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's arrest plunged state government into chaos, a precarious sense of normalcy settled on the state Capitol.

Since the publication of Laurie Garrett's influential 1994 book, The Coming Plague, people commonly talk about pandemics as nature's retribution: something sprung on us as a penalty for disturbing the world's innate balance, for penetrating too deeply into forests and jungles, for disrupting the order of the Earth's precarious ecosystems.

«Today, the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers are grounded in a very precarious position, and major retreat may already be happening, caused primarily by warm waters melting from below the ice shelves that jut out from each glacier into the sea,» said Matthew Wise of Cambridge's Scott Polar Research Institute, and the study's first author.

They may be lulled into thinking they have the luxury of time when their situations are actually quite precarious.

Today, geologic movements have tilted those tracks into a rock face angled at a precarious 70 degrees.

The best you're going to do there is Luna, a human - size «robot» that will soon be widely available from a company called RoboDynamics in Santa Monica, California, for $ 3,000 — incredibly cheap for a humanoid, but incredibly expensive for a device that can't do much more than try not to bump into furniture and senior citizens as it desultorily wheels itself around your home, toting a tray of drinks you've carefully placed on its precarious, pipe - like «arms.»

I flew to meet Maryna and for 4 sacred days we escaped the daily to - do's of our ordinary lives and ventured into the lush and sometimes precarious terrain of the island Maryna now calls home.

As much as I love the extra height and sass offered by a stacked wedge or precarious stiletto, the reality is I live a car's drive from absolutely everywhere I need or want to go, and remembering to take my heels with me to the car as I slip into my safe - to - drive - in flats some days is just too much to ask.

The world of online dating can be a precarious field to venture into.

«The Post» celebrates what that means, tapping into an enlightened nostalgia for the glory days of newspapers, but the film also takes you back to a time when the outcome was precarious, and the freedoms we thought we took for granted hung in the balance.