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Перевод: precarious
[прилагательное] ненадежный; сомнительный; необоснованный; случайный; рискованный; опасный
Тезаурус:
- Subservience becomes a habit, and to step outside it is indeed a going out into the unknown, a going into a wilderness, where there are no clear paths forward, where life is precarious, and survival itself uncertain.
- It is a paper act in a paper situation, inflammable and precarious.
- On this precarious basis, life at The Kilns began - and the distinctive Lewisian habitat had been established.
- Zborowski's constant, if precarious, backing had meant that Modigliani was not so desperately short of money.
- Although Brent Walker says the MBO is the preferred option, negotiations are complicated by Brent Walker's precarious financial position.
- Grgoire was now hemmed in by the tiny precarious wine table.
- She felt the only possible solution to the situation would be if Liza were to marry again; but with the girl's precarious mental state and lack of contact with the outside world, this hardly seemed likely.
- Despite Zborowski's frantic efforts to sell his work, Modigliani's living was still very precarious.
- Somehow, step by precarious step, I had been drawn over the invisible divide and was now truly a part of the family hareem.
- He furnished much of the office from his own resources although his annual salary of 250 was some 20% below the WEA's nationally recommended minimum for District Secretaries - a reflection yet again of the District's precarious financial position, then in deficit in excess of 100.
- Nothing traumatic happened; there were just the ordinary ups and downs which would naturally have occurred in the life of a humble family striving to make a reasonable living in a somewhat precarious way.
- One of the sappers, from a precarious perch a third of the way up the wall.
- In the end, Callaghan backed down because his private information suggested that Labour prospects were too precarious.
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