During the last months of the war, the Treasury led a most precarious existence, and its actual operations can only be surmised.

During that time the society lost its government subsidies, but managed to carry on a precarious existence.

Midway's precarious existence - it was losing $1 million a day - made Minnesota officials nervous.

But doing nothing, losing him and rejoining my family's precarious existence seemed worse.

Like many university newspapers, it has had a colourful, precarious existence.

This precarious existence is now caught between a collapsing past and a grim future.

A few cattle might eke out a precarious existence, but no large herd would do so.

The city drifts in space for about 15 years, the residents clinging to a precarious existence.

The surest fact of this precarious existence is that one may never stand static.

Europe's performers often live a very precarious existence at the best of times.