Sentences with phrase «precarious position against»

There is also a worry that using the drill could disturb the lander's precarious position against a cliff face, so it may be too risky.

Not exact matches

That would be enough to earn them a play - off against a team from the Oceania group but with Argentina currently in sixth and just one point behind them, Chile are in a precarious position and this makes it more likely that they will risk the Arsenal striker next week.

Two draws against West Ham and Crystal Palace has put Arsenal in a precarious position in the League.

The Senior Financial Stability Index, developed by Brandeis University, reveals that three out of four American senior citizen households are in an «economically precarious position, with little or no buffer against financial ruin should they be faced with an unexpected illness or other traumatic life event.»

In most cases the point of life insurance is to protect against the risk of losing the income stream of a household breadwinner in the event of premature death, leaving the family in a precarious financial position.

The manufacturer is stuck in the precarious position of balancing a reasonable price against solid specs.

· And according to Precarious: Temporary Agency Work in British Columbia, the rate of growth of short - term positions is significantly outstripping that of permanent ones: http://www.macleans.ca/economy/realestateeconomy/the-vacant-truth-about-rental-condos/ According to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., the federal agency that insures lenders against mortgage losses while simultaneously serving as one of the main sources of real estate data in the country, the vacancy rate for condo rentals is just 1.3 per cent — about as close to zero as you can get.