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All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Susan Sontag

It is certainly a precarious position for the program.

Rick Sanford

This is getting to precarious levels.

David Shearer

Our only aim is to see the state out of the current painful and precarious situation.

Omar Abdullah

[The design process is in limbo.] We have not had any contact at all, ... I can see that it's precarious.

Frank Gehry

These deals leave standalone entities in a precarious position given likely competition from larger companies, ... BellSouth and Qwest have to decide how important a national presence is.

Todd Rosenbluth

Calm has returned but it's a precarious calm. The smallest spark risks an explosion.

Samir Mihi

The situations in Afghanistan and Iraq serve to underscore the precarious state of this fundamental freedom.

Michael Cromartie

We've now known for 31 years since the first oil embargo that Hawaii's precarious position as the state most dependent and exposed to foreign crude oil is unacceptable.

Ted Liu

There is a tremendous need. We are trying to manage this and be fair with the process with people who are low-income and are in a precarious situation.

Kevin O'connor

You have to understand, prior to the hurricane, gasoline stocks were already very low. We were already in a precarious situation.

Larry Goldstein

It's the event that's the most precarious and you really have to have the mental focus and it's confidence and it's experience. That's what the season is for and I see it improving every meet and that makes a coach feel good.

Frank Kudlac

'Our federal caucus is in a precarious position.

Gough Whitlam

Iraq is at a very precarious point now and security is continuously deteriorating. Until security is stabilized people will continue to be displaced due to sectarian violence.

Dana Graber

It's not a good time. Since early July there's been a real wave of arrests and harassment, and acts of repugnance. Being a dissident in Cuba is an incredibly precarious life.

Joanne Mariner

Sometimes the positioning is very precarious, and you have to sit for half an hour while they freeze it.

Connie Adkins

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Jane Addams

The temperatures will affect how quickly our linemen are able to work. The wind itself is going to be blowing those tree branches around, that are already in a very precarious position.

David Lewis

My fate is very precarious, ... I don't want the show to suffer because I may not be able to come back next week.

Dana Carvey

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

James Bryce

His decision is a most precarious one because he has a home base there. Every time you have a flop movie, you can always go back to the show. So he's taking a chance on eroding his popularity.

Matt Roush

The main concern however is that the ground is pretty much saturated. So any additional rains will be precarious for potential mudslides.

Brooke Bingaman

There's no shortage at the moment, but the overall global supply-demand balance is pretty precarious.

Axel Bush

These centers have taken off because we're seeing an increase in the number of workers in precarious employment situations.

Janice Fine

We are in a precarious situation and have got to find our way out, but we are not going to discuss the position of the coach. We have long-term plans with him.

Rupert Scholz

It puts them in a very precarious position. They know when they take the pledge that it's not in the public's interest.

Ted Arrington

It was great to see Lindsay hit her beam routine in this meet. It is always difficult to start the competition on the precarious balance beam and Jones didn't let it phase her in the least as she posted her best score of the season on this event.

Phil Summers

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

Sidney Sheldon

Yeah but let's be careful with it. I think a lot of people said, particularly after 9/11, he looks like a leader doesn't necessarily seem like a leader and you talked about how America looks to him but black America, Chris, as you know and we see it in the polls, always saw this as a precarious position where we were headed and certainly Katrina just blew it over.

Fred Gordon