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• s  affording no ease or reassurance
  a precarious truce
• s  fraught with danger
  the precarious life of an undersea diver
• s  not secure; beset with difficulties

• Through the years, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has leaned precariously backward to stay on good terms with Red China, to profess mutual belief in the five peaceful principles .
• The most precarious balancing act since the original Great Wallendas retired from the high wirePresident Eisenhower's 1960 budgetis still gamely keeping its balance.
• Even after overhead was cut down, poor pictures and finally television kept the theater in a precarious financial position.

• unstable
• parlous
• perilous
• touch-and-go
• shaky

News & Articles

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• Lakers Rumors: Steve Nash Could See His Role Diminished Next Season
  Lakers rumors are swirling in the offseason, from the estimated return of Kobe Bryant to the precarious status of center Dwight Howard. But overlooked in all of the rumors is an emerging situation with the team’s aging guard — and no, it isn’t Kobe Bryant. Steve Nash will turn 40 in the middle of next... Read more » Lakers Rumors: Steve Nash Could See His Role Diminished Next Season is a post ...
  June 16, 2013 - The Inquisitr
• Soccer-Championship proves dangerous territory for managers
  By Martyn Herman LONDON, June 14 (Reuters) - Life just below the Premier League is becoming increasingly precarious for England's soccer managers as they strive to steer their clubs towards the riches of the top flight. The 2012-13 season was a brutal one for managers in England's four top leagues with the 63 sackings or resignations, the equal worst total in the last 19 years, according to ...
  June 14, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Chad situation precarious, ICRC says
  N'DJAMENA, Chad, June 13 (UPI) -- The situation in Chad for thousands displaced by conflict in Sudan is precarious, a regional delegate from the International Committee of the Red Cross said.
  June 13, 2013 - UPI

Quotes

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• Corey Pavin in Digital Sports Daily
  The playoff was a little disappointing to me,Pavin said. "I kind of popped up a 3-wood there and left myself in a pretty precarious spot, but all in all it was a really good week. I was pleased with the way I played all week, very solid...
• Olli Rehn in EUobserver.com
  Greece is indeed a unique and particular case in the EU,Mr Rehn said. "Greece has had particularly precarious debt dynamics and Greece is the only member state that cheated with its statistics for years and years."
• Hillary Rodham Clinton in Global Security Newswire
  I can say the Chinese recognize the gravity of the situation we face,Clinton said. "This is a highly precarious situation that the North Koreans have caused in the region; it is one that every country that neighbors or is in proximity to...