precariousness

precarious | American Dictionary

precarious
adjective
us/prɪˈkeər·i·əs/
in danger because not firmly fixed; likely to fall or suffer harm:
I climbed onto a precarious platform to get a better view.

precariously

adverbus/prɪˈkeər·i·əs·li/
The vase was precariously perched on a narrow shelf next to the door.

Examples of precarious

precarious
Do the marginalised accord less legitimacy to state and government institutions than the precarious and integrated?
The current climate of scrutiny (without the infrastructure to respond within an adequate time) is making the position of student-led projects very precarious.
However, 50% of the marginalised indicated that they would do nothing, as opposed to 18% of the integrated and 32% of the precarious.
Are the marginalised more dissatisfied with the political economic system than the precarious and integrated ?
Again, there is an association between being marginalised, precarious or integrated and tolerance for anti-democratic behaviour by government.
Again, the larger proportion is found among the marginalised (26%), decreasing to 18% for the precarious and 4% for the integrated.
Alternatively, those in the middle may choose, temporarily, to leave the bureaucracy and operate, for instance, in electoral politics, from a precarious social movement base.
A close reading of these two protests shows the sometime 'citadel of the avant-garde' at a distinctly precarious moment in its history.
Employment is precarious and unstable, offering few possibilities for expansion.
His idealistic affirmations of citizenship begin to seem rather precarious when set against the racial conflicts taking place across the world.
The framework provides a much fuller picture of why some groups of older people are in a more precarious economic situation than others.
Challenging the authority gained through seniority may also be a threat to their slender or precarious hold on power in the domestic sphere.
The existing level of biodiversity, however, is precarious.
The literary energy of the recusant communion belied a precarious minority position.
Even the troop cost negotiations themselves in-uenced negatively con®dence in sterling, because they underlined quite dramatically how precarious the situation of sterling actually was.
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