Sentences with phrase «precarious existence in»

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.

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

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.

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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.

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.

It is the perseverance in suffering, for it is as one thinker has said, «The comfort of temporal existence is a precarious affair.

From the point of view which we have been developing it becomes apparent that the citizens of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. need each other in order to play out their despair; they need to have a scapegoat against which to battle in order to fortify their precarious sphere of existence.

This theory of Aristotle's puts him in the precarious position that Bertrand Russell found himself in centuries later, namely, being theoretically committed to the existence of «unreal objects» or «pseudo-objects.»

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.

If Ross occasionally plays loose with the facts, he remains true to the core of the story, and many of the racetrack scenes evoke more sharply than ever before on film a sense of the surpassing grace and power of the running horse, the sound of rolling thunder of the hooves and a sense of the precarious, perilous nature of the jockeys» existence as they bound along hell - fired at 40 miles an hour, monkeys on a stick, wind - sheared and often screaming at each other in the din.

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

Finally, the likely existence of a widely separated bound stellar companion in the KELT - 16 system makes it possible that Kozai - Lidov oscillations played a role in driving KELT - 16b inward to its current precarious orbit.

In pre-revolutionary Russia, one's existence is as precarious as a fiddler on the roof.

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

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.

The group exhibition currently on show at NIMk is about openness, but it's also a statement of — precarious, endangered... in fact, doomed — existence.

We simply can not tolerate the continued existence of a federal program that has facilitated the creation of a two - tiered labour market in which unscrupulous employers are allowed to use a vulnerable underclass of precarious workers to drive down wages, displace Canadians and avoid their responsibilities related to training.