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"parlous" Definitions
  1. (of a situation) very bad and very uncertain; dangerous

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The aborted reform leaves Brazil's economy in a parlous state.
That is still a pretty parlous state of affairs, though.
And it comes at a particularly parlous moment for him.
As the play opens, Popcorn Falls is in a parlous state.
Technology and globalisation are commonly cited culprits for this parlous of affairs.
Now as then the country's public finances are in a parlous state.
Less acute but just as worrying is the parlous state of Panama's institutions.
For women of color, especially black women, the situation is even more parlous.
What she couldn't have known was the parlous nature of his mental stability.
The charge is that her government had fiddled government accounts, concealing their parlous state.
If intellectual history matters in this parlous situation, then getting Rousseau right does, too.
That could put the United States and the world in a uniquely parlous place.
Congolese infrastructure is scant and parlous, a daily losing battle against neglect and nature.
More worrying is that as economies slowed, the parlous state of public finances became clear.
These are parlous times, and we look to public voices for dignity, intelligence and gravitas.
Her first priority is to preserve the EU of 27, which is in a parlous condition.
And Mr. Holter is ultimately cleareyed about the parlous state of the American public school system.
Even in its current parlous state the Labour Party leads the Tories among those under about 35.
The man who holds so many Mets records finally feels, in his parlous imperfection, like a Met.
The appetite for venti lattes and grande frappuccinos is remarkable given the parlous state of South Africa's economy.
The results are evident in the parlous state of our universities, and the frayed edges of our democracies.
Invitation to the gutterIf Mr Trump's predicament at the start of the debate was parlous, Mrs Clinton's was delicate.
EVERY SO OFTEN a right-leaning economist raises the alarm about the apparently parlous state of America's public finances.
The result is that the balance-sheets of both banks and much of the corporate sector are in parlous states.
It's a good job Europe has had a lot of practice in dealing with the parlous state of its banks.
This time he was bolstered by voters fed up with pervasive corruption, parlous education and a crumbling health-care system.
Given the world's parlous state, there are reasons to hope that both deals are made, Rob Cox writes in Breakingviews.
Though their governance remains parlous, at least these banks are no longer able to hide the extent of their problems.
Many extinctions do not have to add up to a certified mass extinction in order to be a parlous loss.
Do not be surprised if this "struggle" is also used to shore up the parlous finances of many local governments.
The question now is whether Trump's already parlous political fortunes risk being further damaged by his role on Puerto Rico.
History will judge which party has taken the more responsible course during this unpredictable, unprecedented, and increasingly parlous presidential election.
The problem is that exporting oil has been increasingly hard of late — and Iran's economy is in a parlous way.
So parlous was Opel's state that the latter demanded money to take the business on and GM pulled out of negotiations.
Long-term underfunding is indeed the main reason for the parlous state of Germany's armed forces, the Bundeswehr ("Outgunned", July 28th).
To complicate matters, at the film's center the Dardennes place an amateur detective who doesn't naturally belong to this parlous world.
Yet far from being daunted by the parlous statistics, Ms. Bode decided the time was just right to set up shop.
IF A country's fiscal deficit hit 10% of GDP five years running, you might reasonably conclude that its public finances were parlous.
He deplored the parlous state of a half-mile stretch of U.S. 421 and said $802,000 would be spent to rebuild it.
But the parlous state of computer security and the computerisation of the world risk turning such attacks into high-probability, high-impact events.
In some ways, the situation of what had once been Alabama's robust yeomanry was even more parlous in 1946 than in Kolb's era.
A Taliban attack on a training base for pro-government militias claimed at least 43 lives this week, underlining the parlous security situation.
A complete collapse of the financial system seemed plausible, and with it a global depression much deeper than the parlous recession which actually followed.
The U.N. statement also highlighted the parlous security situation in the region, noting that the front lines are mere miles away from the camps.
Parlous state The country is nearly out of money because its funds come almost exclusively from oil revenue -- the value of which has plummeted.
Another reason why one has to hope that the Brazilian economy begins to recover soon is the parlous state of the country's corporate sector.
The campaign has widespread support, in part because the teachers' demands focus on the parlous state of education, rather than just their low pay.
Will the president let himself be pushed into a parlous war by John Bolton, who once buoyed the phony case on W.M.D.s in Iraq?
In the heart of Berlin, few people if any seemed to have noticed the international concerns about the parlous state of Deutsche Bank's stock price.
On April 5, 1895, Oscar Wilde was holed up at the Cadogan Hotel, in London, torn between fleeing the country and facing a parlous fate.
Inflation, unemployment and other economic hardships persuaded Khamenei to support President Hassan Rouhani on the nuclear question aimed at improving the parlous state of Iran's economy.
In a moment defined by how parlous and shifting and ungovernable and multiply un-definitive it is, the clarity of an ending is...well, it's horrifying.
Given the parlous state of female representation in the Brexit negations, it is perhaps unsurprising that May's deal has nothing to say about any of this.
To date, Sanders's most public, but also most parlous, statements on his own Semitism occurred in the first two of his two-person debates with Hillary.
Yet another reason why Trump should be more concerned about the global economy than he seems to be is the parlous state of the European economy.
The desperate efforts by the professional leagues to fulfil their broadcasting contracts and keep the revenue flowing underscored the parlous state of their finances without it.
The desperate efforts by the professional leagues to fulfil their broadcasting contracts and keep the revenue flowing underscored the parlous state of their finances without it.
Around the corner from that parlous primary school on the outskirts of Karachi is another, privately run school hand-picked for your correspondent's visit by civil servants.
But the compliment was backhanded as Trump alluded again to Puerto Rico's parlous economic state even before the damage inflicted by last month's hurricanes Irma and Maria.
Annoyed by the parlous state of computer security, he had, he claimed, decided to perform a public service by demonstrating just how easy it was to seize control.
Filipinos will vote for a new president in May, and the candidates are trying to blame each other for the parlous state of Manila's roads and public transport.
Many of the thousands who pass through each day are former residents of the stricken city, and the checkpoints are another daily reminder of their hometown's parlous situation.
The march had been seen as a test of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's willingness to tolerate dissent after banning recent opposition protests over the parlous state of the economy.
"Nordstrom is not in the parlous state of other weak department store players, mainly because it has invested in its business," GlobalData Retail Managing Director Neil Saunders said.
Given the parlous state of government finances in many countries in Europe and the debt ceiling imposed by the EU's stability and growth pact, that will be difficult.
SEHGAL I don't know about the state of political books these days; I only know that my state is parlous and full of confusion: Who is reading these books?
Some estimates show that switching to a managed-care model, which would keep more people in their homes, would improve the state's parlous financial position by more than $200m annually.
ANDY SPALDINGAssociate professorUniversity of Richmond School of LawRichmond, Virginia You wrote about the parlous state of the Italian banking system and the lessons that go unheeded in the banking industry.
But people in Gross Gleinicke who had been researching the history of the Jewish families in the region alerted Mr. Harding to the parlous state of the house in 2013.
As editor of COMMENTARY and as a newspaper columnist, I have commissioned, edited, and written hundreds of thousands of words on the dreadful mistakes and parlous consequences of the Obama presidency.
If not, it's another prolonged dose of footballing destitution for the festive season, which considering the parlous state of the last few months would probably just about finish West Ham off.
All of which raised anxieties ahead of China trade data on Wednesday, which are expected to show further declines in exports and imports, underlining the parlous state of world trade flows.
But only institutional investors accepted the offer, dropping their part of a claim that alleges the bank misrepresented its parlous financial state when asking investors to stump up cash in 2008.
Before the purchase, international auditors including PWC, warned Pemex's board of directors of the parlous state of the two plants, but the company went ahead and bought them anyway, the report said.
Parlous political times call for out-of-the-box museum thinking, which is what Ms. Reilly both documents and demands in this how-to handbook for lining up art and real life.
"The fact that Labour is so vulnerable in both these seats is an indication of the party's parlous standing," said Mark Wickham-Jones, professor of political science at the University of Bristol.
Unsurprisingly, given the parlous condition of race relations in today's America, race forms a key theme of the novel, its effects as subtle and pervasive in the novel as they are in life.
National security is parlous, with North Korea increasing the tempo of missile launches and nuclear tests just as Donald Trump, America's president-elect, threatens vaguely that he will withdraw American troops from the South.
So disgusted was he by the perceived slight to the nation's pride, and indeed his own, that he cut off funding to his former pet project and left Zairean football in a parlous state.
The Italian economy was already looking rather parlous at the start of this year, with global bodies like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and European Commission all predicting almost negligible growth rates.
Both the political guru and the financial wizard have been moved recently to view the results of their handiwork and have found reason to express concerns regarding the parlous state of U.S.-China relations.
The lower output and falling inventories resulted in a draw on the seaborne market that exporters weren't positioned to take advantage of, given the parlous state of the industry after five years of declining prices.
For all the Western complaints about the parlous state of human rights, in their hearts they know they need a country which is stable and predictable -- even if it is a stable and predictable autocracy.
The government has unveiled plans to reform prisons and improve safety, but the Prison Governors' Association (PGA) said jails were in a parlous state because of a decline in pay and the cutting of staff numbers.
President Nicolas Maduro blames an "economic war" by political foes for the parlous state of Venezuela's economy, and accuses unscrupulous businessmen of exaggerating their needs so they can flip dollars on the black market for profit.
US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu both have strong political reasons to use their "deal of the century" to distract from their parlous domestic plights, and as a tool in looming elections.
So with unemployment in Gaza topping 21% and the economy in a parlous state, many bridegrooms turn for help to money-lending associations that offer wedding loans ranging from $2000,20193 to $22019,2400, but repayment often becomes impossible.
The wounding of an American general, who are rarely in positions where they are vulnerable to attack, has underlined the parlous state of U.S.-led efforts to bring stability to Afghanistan, 17 years after the conflict began.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will order a new fleet of government jets after a series of embarrassing breakdowns that has left government ministers stranded and highlighted the parlous technical condition of much of the NATO member's military hardware.
Some would argue that young people today are more worried because the world is now in a more parlous state, what with intense competition for college and the lingering effects of the Great Recession, among other factors.
Buzzfeed News coined the acronym BETS—for Box, Etsy, Twitter and Square—as a catchall for the bellwethers of this parlous moment; the acronym refers to a one-time Next Big Thing tech company whose stock is currently tanking.
Whatever the faults of Nicolás Maduro (which are many), whatever the shortcomings of Venezuela's elections (which are almost as many), and whatever the state of Venezuela itself (parlous), military coups supported by hostile foreign powers are not instruments of democracy.
"The 3.2-gigawatt Hinkley nuclear project looks to be a financing headache in any scenario, given the parlous state of EDF's share price and balance sheet," Michael Liebreich, chairman of the advisory board of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, said in a blog post.
Rouhani has insulated himself from hardline critics of the talks by keeping the support of Khamenei, who backed Rouhani's efforts, although in Khamenei's view this was purely to improve the parlous state of Iran's economy and not to mend fences with the West.
Central banks were in focus on Thursday after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi discussed the Brexit vote and the parlous state of the European banking industry and the governor of the Bank of Japan ruled out using "helicopter money" in a radio interview.
Analyst Kingston Reif of the Arms Control Association think tank said Putin may be seeking to signal that Russia can keep up with the United States, to distract from its internal problems or to deflect blame for the parlous state of the INF treaty.
For instance: Having published "America's Bitter Pill" in 2015, he gets rightly incensed about the parlous state of American health care, an issue that affects everyone but is so intricate and perplexing that the details seem to excite mainly policy wonks and pharmaceutical executives.
Ever since Donald Trump was elected, the mandarins and chatterers of the capital have been alarmed that we would get to this precipice of blustery, threatening exchanges between Trump and Kim Jong-un about thermonuclear annihilation, and that when we did, it would be parlous.
In there, they are free to congratulate each other on their richly deserved success, lend each other money, place side bets on the goings-on in the dreary, parlous, Keurig-breathed world below, and presumably exchange esoteric complaints about the pros and cons of private jet ownership.
There are things that matter — the parlous military situation in Afghanistan, for example — and Omarosa and her explosive new tell-all, "Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House," which is published by Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, just isn't one of them. Period.
Trump must begin thinking for himself, particularly since national security advisor John Bolton, who believes in a far more muscular foreign policy than is either appropriate or safe in these parlous times, seems bent on edging the US toward armed conflict on the side of one tyrant or another.
Find it in the return of a bricks-and-mortar establishment to an avenue that Forbes once ranked as the most expensive street in the world and a section of Midtown whose parlous aesthetics (think Disney Store or Trump Tower) and once-flagging fortunes are experiencing a welcome revival.
The parlous state of public finances should ensure that Ms. May's new chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, will not want the government to spend more than it already does — though we do not yet know whether he is as committed to deficit reduction as his predecessor was.
But the sanctions being called for by more than 20 senators and by groups including Human Rights Watch, and even the targeted individual sanctions envisaged by the State Department, would undermine an already parlous economy, entrench the Burmese in their sense of being alone against the world and render any passage to full democracy even harder.

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