Sentences with phrase «more precarious»

The NOOK's failure to take off as a formidable competitor to the iPad and the Kindle makes Barnes & Noble's position in the bookselling business ever more precarious, according to both Wahlstrom and Gary Balter and Simeon Gutman, who cover Barnes & Noble for Credit Suisse.

Meanwhile, the risk environment has become more precarious.

Even the most amicable divorce can result in financial chaos for one or both spouses, and the situation is even more precarious when you're at significant odds with one another.

As Illinois is in its 7th month of operating with no budget, the state of our state's early childhood education system is growing more precarious by the day.

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

The power button is in a more precarious position.

It's not a given yet — a majority of Americans oppose defunding, and at least two Republican Senators are not in favor (which, if it's bundled into an Obamacare repeal, makes that an even more precarious proposition as a majority vote would be needed)-- it's a very real possibility that could have very real consequences.

But it's also about brain injuries, and this type of injury can even be more precarious for your health and life.

The nature of his job doing heavy physical work places him in a more precarious position at work than the plaintiff in Rutledge v. Jimmie, 2014 BCSC 41.

«The media is full of stories of migrant worker exploitation, but this moratorium won't end the abuse it will just make workers more precarious,» insists Senthil Thevar, who came to Canada as a Temporary Foreign Worker in the food sector and was forced to switch jobs because of workers rights violations.

Dynamism is probably not so much the case when we see in adjacent markets the sale of Accountancy Age and Financial Director magazines, where the B2B market is more precarious.

As global ecosystems deteriorate and global warming alters water patterns — making economic growth ever more precarious — far - right global elites are counting on new technologies to spur economic growth: geo - engineering (to modify the entire planet to counteract global warming), nanotechnology (to manipulate the world at the molecular level to create novel materials) and synthetic biology (to create entirely new life - forms previously unknown in nature).

As warming starts to shake up marine food webs, ecologists say it may give an unexpected boost to some fisheries — but also make them more precarious.

It suggests that it is even more precarious for me to think I can understand it at a level that is necessary to judge.

The second article, published on June 24, was titled «Lake Mead watch: As levels fall, hydropower dips» and began by saying, «As water levels in Lake Mead continue to drop, the future of «the greatest dam in the world» is more precarious than it ever has been...»

But a new bit of analysis from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory suggests that the growth trajectory of residential solar is more precarious than that, highly dependent upon current policies.

Now, thanks to global warming, life there is five times more precarious.

Modest temperature increases may actually benefit rich temperate countries, but make harvests even more precarious across much of the tropics.

The biggest problem that confronts Ursus maritimus is still climate change, loss of habitat and a more precarious food supply.

It's in this phenomenological condition for the possibility of things where meaning takes on new forms and where the viewer is engaged in more precarious and unpredictable encounters with sculptural and architectural constructions.

At its base the shops will be derelict, while at its pinnacle will be London's exclusive boutiques and galleries, with the Tower appearing more precarious towards the top.

more precarious than in other countries.

If you look at the Netflix cash burn things begin to look even more precarious.

If millennials are correct and their employment continuity is more precarious than previous generations, or else they really are going to prioritize work - life balance or following their passions over constant, steady employment, then the fluctuations in their work - related incomes year - to - year might make RRSPs a useful vehicle for those years of lower or no other income.

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.

All this makes the new retirement more precarious.

Set against the Platte River's massive spring migrations — one of the greatest spectacles in nature — The Echo Maker is a gripping mystery that explores the improvised human self and the even more precarious brain that splits us from and joins us to the rest of creation.

Trapped in the ice for two years, the crew of the U.S.S. Jeannette found themselves in an even more precarious position when their ship finally broke apart.

That, some experts argue, is what makes the Common Core better, if more precarious, than the standards they've replaced.

He is in a much more precarious political position than most members of Congress are.

The universe is looking more precarious by the day.

The movie blends live action and animation with a story that takes place in an alternate version of medieval China in which monsters and humans — two species that once coexisted peacefully — have settled into a more precarious truce.

What truly won me over is that the subject of boxing takes a back seat to a much more precarious subject of family lost and family left behind.

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.

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.

Blending 70s and classic noir to create a movie for the ages, Oren Shai's feature debut follows a woman on the run who finds herself in an even more precarious position after arriving at an isolated diner.

This makes online dating culture all the more precarious for curvy daters.

Since we are in the midst of the 2008 holiday season and a more precarious economic climate than this country has experienced since The Great Depression, it is no wonder if your stress levels feel like they are off the charts!

In addition to this issue, much of the «real stuff» is actually distilled with a chemical distillation process, making it much more precarious to use.

As you move between the highly stable standing position and the more precarious split stance, the change in stability demands you simultaneously resist and produce force, something it shares with both bird dogs and sled work.

But when it comes to fitness, intermittent fasting feels a little more precarious.

The state of the planet grows ever - more precarious as political unrest begins to feel like the new normal.

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.

The Amur leopards» plight is even more precarious, with fewer than 100 left in a tiny boundary - straddling patch of China and Russia.

«The «science» of regulation is more precarious and uncertain than the science of gene editing,» Evans said.

But the situation looks more precarious when you break it down by country and district.

This is more precarious at night when the police patrol the highways.

Their gestures of public affection belie a more precarious reality.

The job of communications director is said to have been offered to the highly - rated Slack, but sources said he was reluctant to quit the civil service for a more precarious political post.

«In light of what happened with Health Republic, because they were not required to have significant reserves... we should be very careful before we make [insurers] financial situation more precarious.»