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.
