Примери за perilously

• They passed a house which seemed to hang perilously onto the hillside.

• The oil price is hovering perilously close to $100 a barrel.

• He was driving in perilously wet conditions for the first time.

• However, to have an authority figure require that a patient justify his or her plans comes perilously close to coercion.

• If in addition to it not being removed, village livestock grazing is not restricted, the number of tigers could fall to perilously low levels.

• In cultural terms, being unmarked may even seem perilously close to not being at all.

• This collection should add to the former, but it comes perilously close to qualifying for the latter as well.

• Age-resistance is something that comes perilously near age-denial.

• The problem with that view is that, even if it avoids reductionism, it comes perilously close to an untenable genetic determinism.

• Even more perilously, it faced the enormous obstacle of this genre of moral tales centered on a "despoiling" plot.

• In this article, the author argues that not relieving pain brushes perilously close to willfully inflicting it.

• Opera placed women in an arena that was not only perilously public, but also ideologically controversial.

• They adjourn further analysis of such qualities by expressing their distaste for, or at best, faintly embarrassed appreciation of, her intensely personal, perilously autobiographical, violently passionate style.

• It is perilously easy to ' forget ' what is of ultimate value, significance, and worth and to substitute what is transient, momentary, merely a matter of social convention and propriety.

• However, when those with sedentary lifestyles reach 70 years the oxygen requirement for basic activities such as brisk walking will be perilously close to the maximum oxygen uptake possible.

• This makes us inescapably and perilously vulnerable to obsolescence.

• The massive rundown in our regular forces and their in-house support will stretch our defence capabilities perilously thin.

• A lot of this talk about the sanctity of treaties gets perilously near humbug.