precarious

IPA: prikˈɛriʌs

Examples of "precarious" in Sentences

It cannot see how precarious is its position, cannot comprehend the power and the portent of the revolution.
I am quite sure this is the case in precarious areas of newspaper journalism – like the literary review pages!
"The quality of jobs changed dramatically in the way that we have what we call 'precarious employment' in Germany," he says.
Dr. THIEREN: The conditions are (unintelligible) of about a million, a million and a half (unintelligible) population in precarious conditions.
And Jennifer Klein, professor of history at Yale University, adds that women often work in "precarious" jobs with irregular hours and low benefits.
She could not consent, she said, to dim the prosperities of his career by a union with her future, which she characterized as a precarious thing, a thing for making burdens out of -- but not for his carrying.