Sentences with phrase «precarious condition»

The lack of consumer ownership of digital content has long been a precarious condition that gamers have had to accept if they wished to purchase and play their favorite software titles.

Grace's precarious condition required speed as much as it did technical precision, and in such a situation aesthetics must yield to expeditiousness.

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

Inquiring minds might want to know why a relatively small company such as EI, after 4 years of humongous government support and more advantages than you can shake a stick at, is still in such precarious condition.

New York's transportation system is essentially broke, with both transit and road networks in precarious condition.

Maybe it is partly because my first baby was in such precarious condition that nothing else than optimism and a brace face would do, and the other babies were «normal» so I didn't see any reason to be less than ecstatic about them.

Maritain wrote scathingly of the anti-Semitic lies spreading through Europe in 1938, denouncing the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as the «most impudent of forgeries» and examining the exposed and precarious condition of the Jewish population in each of the several countries of Europe.

If you need evidence of the U.S. retail sector's precarious condition, consider that over 9,000 stores closed last year, and another 12,000 are on the chopping block this year, according to commercial property firm Cushman & Wakefield.

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

Nevertheless, it is worth while to make an attempt at investigation even under such precarious conditions.

British allies, who we know also face precarious conditions of varying degrees even on these isles, are extending a hand to our American friends.

She was also a co-author of a report that criticised the precarious conditions for Spanish early - career researchers.

The work of Chris Killip depicts the dismantling of the European industrial world during the second half of the 20th century, underlining the precarious conditions affecting a large part of the working class, seen with particular harshness in the 1980s.

In the practice of the collective I'm With You (UK Associates; Johanna Linsley, Christa Holka and R. Justin Hunt) flexibility, collectivity and alternative understandings of the domestic tend to be paired with provisional, temporary and precarious conditions to think through notions of queer domesticity.

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The next month, Stack and six of his managers were called to a meeting at Harvester headquarters.Because of precarious economic conditions, they were told, SRC could not exceed 33 % of its capacity for the next three years.

The exact size and growth of this workforce is debated, but workers employed under precarious work conditions make up a significant portion of the larger workforce, with estimates that 4 out of every 10 workers are now employed in precarious situations.49 These workers typically face higher income volatility than workers in traditional employment relationships because they spend more time unemployed or underemployed and some have low earnings.50

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.

The most significant problem, however, is that the market is strenuously overbought here, and many precarious technical conditions (such as an extremely low option volatility index - the VIX - and an extremely high McClellan Oscillator) are in place.

«Despite the Company's precarious financial condition, Cambridge Analytica intends to fully meet its obligations to its employees, including with respect to notice periods, severance terms, and redundancy entitlements,» it said.

They look at the origins, work conditions, and precarious lives of farm workers in terms of larger historical forces such as colonialism, land rights, and racism.

Despite the Company's precarious financial condition, Cambridge Analytica intends to fully meet its obligations to its employees, including with respect to notice periods, severance terms, and redundancy entitlements.

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).

Under these conditions, while materials of great worth may be produced, their appearance is fortuitous and sporadic and their tenure precarious.

When the believer who used to confront precarious material conditions joins the church, he overcomes crisis and misery, and experiences an improvement in the material standards of his existence.

Sophisticated modern Christian writers, such as Søren Kierkegaard, Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr, defend its validity, interpreting original sin as a metaphor for our flawed and precarious human condition.

Reinfelder's condition was potentially precarious enough that she and her family moved closer to the hospital so they would not have to commute two hours for checkups.

«Already, the nation is in a precarious security condition, and further penetration by hostile intelligence services could portend an even greater danger.

But the investigation found that what Mr. Cuomo described as Mr. Espada's «looting» of Soundview had left the clinics in a precarious financial condition.

The impeccably curated online presences of these young women — fashion blogging is heavily skewed female — seem to offer hope and a sense of control in an economy marked by persistent instability and precarious employment conditions.

This 21st century El Dorado is an inhospitable place, where untold numbers of people live and work in the most precarious of conditions, hoping both for gold and a better life.

Pay is minimal, their health is often precarious, the work is arduous, and conditions are hazardous.

Hyponatremia, a life threatening condition consisting of overtly low sodium levels, occurs when more water enters the body than it's able to process, resulting in a dilution of bodily fluids, which ultimately creates a precarious shift of electrolytes.

The employee is frequently exposed to wet and / or humid conditions; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; and toxic or caustic chemicals.

However, due to erratic weather conditions and the lighthouse's precarious location, it was quickly nicknamed Terrible Tilly.

«Unsettlement» is conceived as both a contemporary condition — in which our claim to the spaces we occupy is increasingly precarious — and a strategy for artistic, social and political engagement.

Group Activities - New York Artist Union, the WPA, and the Art Workers Coalition Teach - in - Working Conditions Seminar with Precarious Workers Brigade (London), UKK (Young Art Workers, Copenhagen) and a representative of the Chilean Ministry of Culture - Ongoing discussions with representatives from local unions and working centers such as UWA, IWW, Teamster, Writer's Guild of America East, New York Taxi Workers Alliance, and others - Monthly book club on labor law, organizing, workplace occupations, and radical history - End Sotheby's Lockout Solidarity Action at the Whitney Biennial with Occupy Museums, Occupy Sotheby's and Arts & Culture - Joining other OWS labor affiliated working groups such as Labor Outreach Committee, Occupy Your Workplace, and 99 Pickets, as part of the Labor Alliance cluster

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.

These groups, rooted in a political theater of the streets, are staging interventions in museums to protest precarious employment at home and exploitative conditions abroad.

Her participation in the project continues an existing line of research, and is negotiated on terms that recognize and capitalize on precarious working conditions for artists.

Like all of Wentworth's work, they are about the combination of the desirable and the precarious, and to this extent, one can find a correlation between this show and the vanitas paintings of the 17th century which depicted objects that were loaded with symbolism linked to our human condition.

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.

She spent time in the city's southeast neighborhoods, researching the toll of gang violence on families and pondering the effects of such violence on those whose impoverished living conditions were already precarious, creating situations which Salcedo has described as «social death» or «death in life.»

In the former times presenting research as a strategy for artistic practice, had remained the sole domain of research funding from higher education institutions, as it is often a precarious and beguiling balance based on strategic re-formulation; Slavs» and Tartars» regional linguistic web - like encasing or Simon Fujiwara's intriguing journeys involving gumshoe archeology, travel and sexuality are dependent on revealing specific correlations; their instigations have won over funders willing to stay the course, a condition that allows a great deal of curatorial independence.

The contemporary equation of time and money generates a condition of precarious production that never synchronizes or accounts for the costs of its power infrastructure.

Acevedo Velarde organizes his diverse artistic practice into projects that differ dramatically in terms of materials, technique, and presentation, but share an astute portrayal of the human condition, looking at the psychology of self - preservation within the precarious fragility of community and civilization.

It is a precarious balance between the two global conditions, not because of CO2, which doesn't alter the eclipse temperatures, but because such a brief reduction in time and space can so rapidly impact the temperature.

«Like any other scheme to improve the human condition, it's quite precarious because it is so grand in its ambitions,» said William Boyd, a University of Colorado law professor working to salvage the plan.

Those family members are often in precarious and unsafe situations themselves through their family association or have fled the country of origin and are living elsewhere without status in dire conditions so such applications are not straightforward as the LAA might argue.

Workers who are in precarious and low - wage jobs are also at greater risk of being injured at work, less likely to report injury or unsafe working conditions, and much more likely to fall into poverty when injured.

In addition to a detailed analysis of the options proposed by the Special Advisors, the WAC / Parkdale report provides specific recommendations on the sweeping changes needed for Ontario's labour laws (Employment Standards Act & Labour Relations Act) to more effectively address low waged and precarious work conditions.