Being a precariously dominant minority is a difficult position for human nature to cope with. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a precarious livelihood. ,He held a precarious tenure under an arbitrary administration. ,the precarious life of an underseas diver. ,a precarious assumption. From Dictionary.com.
Although many trees have been removed from homes and businesses, others remain precariously poised to fall. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference
A lone figure swung precariously from the side of a sky-scraping tower, painfully inching his way up a rope. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2009 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
Friar Mathieu turned and teetered precariously at the top of the steps. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
The Northern Ireland peace process continues to rock along precariously. From Wordnik.com. [A Precarious Peace Process] Reference
Rudman quickly concluded that the case against Lee was precariously thin. From Wordnik.com. [The Nuclear Spy Case Suffers A Meltdown] Reference
Vicars, who had hitherto been precariously paid by the Canons their masters. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
I remember precariously dangling off the balcony of my hotel room for a signal. From Wordnik.com. [Big Picture] Reference
I could picture her in my head with a lollypop poised precariously on her lips. From Wordnik.com. [Mississippi Blues] Reference
The wide red hat with its heavy tassels seemed precariously balanced on his head. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Four days later rescuers had to retreat when slabs of concrete shifted precariously. From Wordnik.com. ['I Think About It All The Time.'] Reference
Tom got up slowly, leaning heavily on the outer edge of the precariously placed box. From Wordnik.com. [Treachery in Outer Space] Reference
The hem-line rides precariously mid-thigh, and hugs tight to the girl's emerging curves. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts When I Should Be Praying] Reference
I hug my knees up to my chin so I am precariously balancing on the narrow edge of the tub. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Lives In My Shower] Reference
Valeria grunted and marched past them, the milk canister balanced precariously over her shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [The Paprika Ewer] Reference
Those that lived so precariously would have little conscience about stripping him of his possessions. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
I sat numbly as the pair stormed through the steel double doors, their muzzles aimed precariously forward. From Wordnik.com. [Even In The Worst Of Times, Life Goes On] Reference
Now there is snow covering the land, so he slips and slides precariously down hills toward open crevasses. From Wordnik.com. [Mario's Three Lives] Reference
Here a great tree had been uprooted by the wind and leaned precariously over a quagmire beside the roadway. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
The front was unbroken save by tiny rifts and narrow ledges, where dwarfed ground pines clung precariously. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
Asked The Judge, old and gray, peering down over thick glasses balanced precariously on a thick Nixon nose. From Wordnik.com. [The Company's Sprinkler Heads] Reference
The faithful sing hymns to the accompaniment of a Yamaha synthesizer teetering precariously on an old washing machine. From Wordnik.com. [War Of The Faiths] Reference
When Salt leaps precariously from one tall building to another, there was ... like ... supposed to be a bloke doing it. From Wordnik.com. [Will Angelina Jolie's Salt be a seller?] Reference
It was not only open, but empty; the lid was bent, twisted out of shape, and hanging precariously by one damaged hinge. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
Then the billy was placed precariously on the heap and in a few minutes you would see the tiny fires all along the column. From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
Items are stacked up to the roof, some precariously, like mini towers of Pisa made out of packages covered with Hebrew script. From Wordnik.com. [Life Amid The Ruins: Gazans Still Feel Under Siege] Reference
Some places look as though they have been flipped upside down, or are sinking to the ground, or listing precariously to one side. From Wordnik.com. [Haiti Earthquake: Just 2 Percent Of Quake Debris Has Been Cleared] Reference
Instead, I began the intricate process of balancing myself on the narrow board that wobbled precariously above four skinny wheels. From Wordnik.com. ['You Just Get On It And Go'] Reference
Scattered over 50 acres of moorland, geological formations rise precariously out of the ground, forming strangely familiar shapes. From Wordnik.com. [Just get physical: active days out in Britain] Reference
The two superstructures themselves had to be made lighter -- one of them was precariously anchored over the route of the PATH train. From Wordnik.com. [Think Again] Reference
The chopper was to land, precariously, on the building's small rooftop and pick up the 30 stragglers, who were told to assemble there. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Days Of Saigon] Reference
"If -- If you say so ..." said Whitlow, slumping lower and lower in his chair as the general's massive form leaned precariously over him. From Wordnik.com. [Minor Detail] Reference
And while she sat there, clinging precariously to the twisted roots of the beech tree, Juliet's tears streamed down into the watery grave. From Wordnik.com. [The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story] Reference
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