Sentences with phrase «precarious existence»

The researchers suggest that cooperative breeding might have developed when our earliest ancestors, who evolved in Africa, first moved from life in the trees to a more precarious existence in savanna and woodland environments, several million years ago.

After a random act of violence shatters the Goodenough family's already precarious existence, the couple's son, Robert, flees the Black Swamp, straight into the muscular arms of the California Gold Rush.

Art dealers have become easy scapegoats in today's irrationally exuberant art world, but it's worth remembering that most have fairly precarious existences and that they're absolutely essential: They take chances on artists, create opportunities for them and, ideally, sell work so that they can continue making.

Campbell reflects on the tension of the anthropologists» projections onto the Gaelic speaking peasant cultures of their studies and the complexities of a society whose precarious existence faces threats of immigration, industrialisation and reform.

But (allowing the exhibition's press release to shed light) MacPhee's use of cheap, discount duds reveals her underlying concern with the economically precarious existence led by those who regularly clothe themselves from the 99 - cent store.

unsettling; working contract - to - contract can be a precarious existence.

While that's good news for the recruiting business, it might strike most Canadians as a little unsettling; working contract - to - contract can be a precarious existence.

A precarious existence is par for the course if you were born between 1982 and 2004.

Rental markets in Toronto and Vancouver are extremely tight, units suitable for raising families in are highly coveted, and being subjected to the whims of a landlord can make for a precarious existence.

Stateside, the Coyotes eke out a precarious existence via taxpayer dollars from host city Glendale; other American teams are losing millions of dollars a year.

The Ferangi Mahal school at Lucknow, which was originally founded by Qutbuddin in the time of Aurangzeb and which produced many distinguished ulama, is losing its influence, but the Deoband continues its precarious existence.

They established the famous religious and educational institution at Deoband which produced many distinguished religious leaders and scholars and still carries on a precarious existence in India.

I mean the burning passion of lived awareness that we occupy a precarious existence on this planet together with the soil and its flowers, the water and its fishes, the air and its birds, the fire and energy sources; that our fellow human beings are truly brothers and sisters with whom it is better always to make love - justice than war; and that gentleness lasts longer and touches more deeply than other kinds of power.

The accounts of the «calling» of disciples are bald, and less informative than we might wish, but it stands firm that Jesus called upon certain persons to cut loose from home, family and livelihood and commit themselves to an insecure and precarious existence — and all for the sake of a cause which they only dimly understood — and that they responded.

If new configurations of power are always to be expected in the ongoing march of creativity, what reason have we to believe that the persuasive elements in life will not forever have to maintain a precarious existence amidst the formidable march of more ruthless powers?

Until recent times human beings were forced to live a precarious existence in the face of the largely unpredictable and uncontrollable forces of nature.

The values that we cherish and that give our lives whatever meaning they may have seem to depend for their precarious existence upon the sensitivity of evaluators.

I recognise that it's always been a precarious existence.

Scrooge never thought to ask why Tiny Tim was condemned to a precarious existence dependent on the gifts of strangers, just because he had a physical impairment.

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

The islands that make up the Maldives have always led a precarious existence.

Throughout the film's production, Landis was constantly reminded that «the studio hates it, doesn't want to finance it,» and so the production led «a precarious existence.»

He dotes on Charley but lives a precarious existence.

All alone, Billy has fashioned a precarious existence for himself, using principled tricks to nourish his body and his mind.

When the fates of a tribe of apes and a band of human survivors intertwine, two worlds collide as their precarious existence hangs in the balance.

Those who survived lead a precarious existence and the fight for survival starts anew each day.

Maatallah's paintings and drawings reflect the precarious existence lived by people he encounters in his daily life.

It portrays the precarious existence in a post-Soviet ghost town, an inverted ruin of the modern that is still waiting to fulfil its utopian ambition of communal living.

With that in mind, dystopic narrative curator Simon Morrissey's group exhibition of 17 artists, in which Somerset has been submerged in water and humans are either evacuated or left to a precarious existence, is perhaps not so fantastical.

Suitably, the title «Permanently Improvised» is a tribute to the DIY culture, and a reference to everlasting workarounds, precarious existences and a fundamental attitude towards life.