We are in a very precarious situation with global instability and very real threats that exist.

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This will also affect London which may have won the crown as world leading financial services centre but that position is very precarious.

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The situation in Iraq is still very fragile and very precarious.

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Escalation, because one side misreads the intentions of the others - and remember they've only got minutes, a flock of geese on the radar screen being misinterpreted, it was very precarious.

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And that leaves Boehner in a very precarious place.

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We find ourselves now in a very precarious situation.

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Koizumi's fiscal restraint has left the responsibility of boosting domestic growth squarely on the shoulders of the BOJ, but its efforts continue to be ineffectual, leaving the economy in a very precarious position.

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