Finding their position in mainland Europe precarious, they crossed to England in 330 ships in two divisions.

Chernenko's position began to look precarious ; Gorbachev was getting stronger by the day.

Infocom had sunk much of the money from games sales into Cornerstone ; this, in addition to a slump in computer game sales, left the company in a very precarious financial position.

This, together with the popular opposition, made Doe ’ s position precarious.

The Western position became precarious and condemned after the Soweto uprising in 1976 and the killing of black South African rights activist Steve Biko in 1977.

During the 260s, the breakup of the Roman Empire into three distinct governing entities ( the core Roman Empire, the Gallic Empire and the Palmyrene Empire ) placed the whole Roman imperium into a precarious position.

Now being emperor of the Gauls, Victorinus was soon to be in a precarious position, for the Spanish provinces had deserted the Gallic Empire and declared their loyalty to Claudius, while in southern France, Placidianus had captured Grenoble.

Hitherto the position of the monarchy had been precarious ; as in Aragon the nobles and the church had exercised a large measure of control over their nominal head, and though it would be pedantry to over-emphasize the importance of the royal title, its assumption by Afonso III does mark a definite stage in the evolution of a national monarchy and a centralized government.

Mortimer knew his position in relation to the king was precarious and subjected Edward to disrespect and humiliation.

The literature of the entire postwar period thus enjoyed great attention, despite its often precarious position.

Using her own supporters at court, and the patronage of her French family, Isabella attempted to find a political path through these challenges ; she successfully formed an alliance with Gaveston, but after his death at the hands of the barons her position grew increasingly precarious.

Despite Isabella giving birth to her second son, John, in 1316, Edward's position was precarious.

Isabella's position was still precarious, as the legal basis for deposing Edward was minimal and many lawyers of the day maintained that Edward was still the rightful king, regardless of the declaration of the Parliament.

Warwick's position nevertheless remained precarious.

Nixon's position was becoming increasingly precarious.

However, his position was far more precarious than his parliamentary majority would suggest.

After Morais's death, the financial position of the association became precarious.

Smaller and in a more precarious position vis-à-vis Libya, Tunisia has consistently made efforts to align with Algeria.

# to draw awareness of China's precarious position to the masses in China.

A clear sign of Molotov's precarious position was his inability to prevent the arrest in December 1948 for " treason " of his Jewish wife, Polina Zhemchuzhina, whom Stalin had long distrusted.

" The English had found the Antwerp money market short of funds since earlier in the year, and now made use of Cologne and Augsburg as well, but as events unfolded in the next year, and the personal position of some leading lenders became precarious, the English found to their surprise that repayments were no longer pressed for, probably as the lenders were happy to keep their money abroad on loan to a secure borrower.

Endurance challenges typically require tribe members to stay balanced on a small perch or support their own weight in a precarious position for as long as possible.

The Empress Matilda then advanced to London to stage her coronation in June, where her position became precarious.

After this event the peace of Prague placed the Swedish army in a very precarious position, but the victories won by the united forces of Banér and Field Marshal Alexander Leslie, commander of the Army of the Weser, at the Battle of Wittstock ( October 4, 1636 ), restored the paramount influence of Sweden in central Germany.

From Bacon's point of view, the King's Bench was a far more precarious position for someone loyal to the common law rather than the monarch.

While his finances were always precarious, he did not live and die in poverty as was the common myth.

His tenancy was precarious.

Even by the standards of the rapidly declining Western Empire, Honorius ' reign was precarious and chaotic.

Young's investigations clearly demonstrated the desperate need for major financial reforms in Honduras, whose always precarious budgetary situation was considerably worsened by the renewal of revolutionary activities.

However, the Coalition was only assured of another term in government when Moreton was called for Liberal Jim Killen, giving the Coalition a precarious one-seat majority.

His father, Heinrich Kepler, earned a precarious living as a mercenary, and he left the family when Johannes was five years old.

The other was a use of precaria or benefices, in which land was held conditionally ( the root of the English word " precarious ").

Historian Graham White describes the treaty of Winchester as a " precarious peace ", capturing the judgement of most modern historians that the situation in late 1153 was still uncertain and unpredictable.

Avignon's survival as a papal enclave was, however, somewhat precarious, as the French crown maintained a large standing garrison at Villeneuve-lès-Avignon just across the river.

As a Frankish garrison of the Kingdom of Jerusalem its defence was precarious, being ' little more than an island in a Moslem ocean '.

The early colonisation was precarious: in 1656 Carib Indians invaded and destroyed the settlements, and in 1666 the island was captured by French forces.

Assini's survival was precarious, however, and only in the mid-nineteenth century did the French establish themselves firmly in Côte d ' Ivoire.

Always of precarious health herself – she is said to have had tuberculosis – she was too weak to prepare her father's papers for publication, so she delegated the task to a family friend, Reverend William Stephens.

By then, the situation in the Holy Land was a precarious one.

The situation was precarious and Isabella was forced to use a group of squires from her personal retinue to hold off the advancing army whilst other of her knights commandeered a ship ; the fighting continued as Isabella and her household retreated onto the vessel, resulting in the death of two of her ladies-in-waiting.

How precarious the situation could develop at times was demonstrated by an outbreak of pneumonic plague in Hailar, a town at the western end of the Chinese Eastern Railway, in October 1920.