In other words, the world remains an economically precarious place, higher stock prices notwithstanding.

It is a harsh and precarious place to make a home.

This year, all the participants in the project clearly found the world a precarious place.

We need to take care of our own in this precarious place in English History.

Even in this lofty and precarious place, high above the world, his mind was fixed on one thing only.

But it is a precarious place for pigs.

Suddenly, she knew herself to be in a very high and precarious place.

It was, indeed, a precarious place at which to stage a battle for life.

It was a precarious place in which to stage a struggle for life.

As the movie continues, the countryside becomes an even more precarious place to her.