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Synonyms for parlous

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Synonyms for parlous

fraught with danger

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Fortunately he was able to grasp the front of the car, and in this parlous position he was being pushed along when Pc Hike succeeded in taking hold of him and dragging him into a place of safety.
Given the parlous state of the education system, would we really want to see precious funding channelled away from books, buildings and teachers to pay for a handful of counsellors in each Welsh county?
Genuine reflection on the parlous state of our health service, education and railways, together with the incidence of crime and inadequate punishment, leaves all of us intelligent servants of our people feeling terribly ashamed and guilty of taking money under false pretences.
Ray Webster, the outspoken chief executive of budget carrier EasyJet, yesterday said Europe's flag carriers had only themselves to blame for their parlous state.
While the decision by LG to pull out is understandable given the parlous state of the world market in television tubes, it raises once again the prudence of over-relying on inward investment as a motor for Welsh manufacturing.
The Conservatives are in such a parlous state after one year of Iain Duncan Smith that some of them want to bring back William Hague.
Speaking at an Alcohol Concern conference in Birmingham, the consultant said: "Everyone is now aware of the parlous state of the NHS.
And if death is high-performance cars driven at speed by company directors who place their own self-importance above life and limb, then all I can say is it's not surprising that the country's economy is in such a parlous state.
NO good can come of the shroud of secrecy that surrounds the apparently parlous state of the Welsh Rugby Union's finances.
The author, who is still recovering in hospital, added: "I have been a Labour Party member all my life and I believed they would do something about the parlous state of the railways and the effects of privatisation."
A spokeswoman said the cost of fighting National Assembly elections, the general election and the Swansea by-election had left the party's coffers in a parlous state.
Sir, - The recent publicity which has rightly been given to the mismanagement of the city's affairs and the parlous state of the council's finances does not seem to stop the money being wasted.
Dr Tony Calland, a GP in Monmouthshire, told the British Medical Association's annual conference the NHS in Wales was ``in a parlous state'' and there were ``serious problems with recruitment and retention''.
HOW many other people are frustrated by the parlous state of road markings across much of Merseyside?
What a parlous state this country of ours has reached.