Voorbeelden van parlous

• This was a strong endorsement of the ensemble's achievements that also drew attention to its parlous financial state.

• A more immediate cause, however, is the parlous state of writing in these fields.

• But the language is in a parlous state in schools and society.

• Since they were established en masse in the most parlous of national economic circumstances, the newlyformed enterprises received only limited state assistance for investment in productive and social infrastructure.

• These writers are representative of a wide discussion of the perceivedly parlous state of church psalmody and sight singing but, despite much lamenting, few specific solutions were offered.

• All racing—horse-racing and greyhound racing—is in a parlous state.

• In this time of stress there are benighted districts, suffering heavily from the toll of unemployment and left in a very parlous state.

• The aluminium smelters, and therefore probably the converters as well, are already in a parlous situation without the imposition of this tax.

• It is a parlous state of affairs when a medical journal can poke cynical fun at academic medical qualifications.

• I cannot believe that factory farmers are in such a parlous state that retrospective help of this kind must be given.

• Severe hardship is obviously a more parlous state than hardship.

• Considering the parlous state of the coal industry and the necessity for international action, is it not possible to get the coal question expedited?

• Many people in that industry are deeply worried about the parlous future that they face.

• Both as a source of new features and as a service centre for making foreign films, the industry is in a parlous state.

• We need not discuss now the parlous conditions through which the industry has passed and through which to some extent it may still be passing.