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She dug through a precariously stacked pile of documents on her desk till she found the ones she was looking for.

It was a laminated snapshot of Lisa as a teenager, looking adorable, with a kitten perched precariously on her head.

The dish was perched precariously on the bank of the canal, but it suddenly overbalanced and slid back into the water.

It shows Isaac Newton sitting beneath a tree with an apple dangling precariously above his head.

He had a basket of eggs balanced precariously on his head.

Current debt issuance projections, if realised, will surely place America precariously close to that notional borrowing ceiling.

The sight of one of them leaning precariously over the building's roof edge while using a stone-cutting machine made me feel queasy.

Its 57th-floor "sky pod" , which seems to balance precariously atop three curving towers, is widely admired.

Meanwhile, Japan's economy is still poised precariously between recovery and renewed slump.

But as I carefully raised the precariously filled glass to my lips, I could tell something was amiss.

The double-height entrance area is connected with a precariously placed staircase that forms the focus of the house.

On a cold day in Eastern Tennessee, my kayak is perched precariously atop a 16-foot waterfall known as State Line Falls.

Here where I was in a puny primitive boat poised precariously on the gently heaving breast of the ocean, life was elemental, primeval.

Might bond-market vigilantes try to force a similar bailout provision for other precariously balanced euro-zone members?

But as Mr Cooper writes: "A depressed savings rate leaves the economy precariously positioned to deal with future adverse shocks. "

An entire central band of our Milky Way balances precariously on THE "Balanced Rock" of Arches National Park in Utah.

We've all seen gulls or crows diving precariously toward the ground before swooping up at the last moment.

She is shown here standing precariously on a cliff. It makes me nervous to look at it overlooking Machu Picchu in Peru.

The Lakers' listless season had lurched precariously close to the edge.

Makeshift buildings lean precariously over the lanes, and labourers hurry home through the dirt after 12 hours of toil.

They have been working here for generations and live precariously on the outskirts of the salt mines.

Fat bumblebees climbed precariously over the petals of bobbing wild flowers.

They live precariously on the income from a few small investment.

One month later we were still waiting to get a trip, he will truly feel the present precariously down.

The television was precariously balanced on top of a pile of books.

No plane, no adults, the civilization which human beings took great pains to establish becomes precariously at risk.

In many ways, the cause of global harmony remains precariously poised.

As I cross the intersection, branches from the trees dip down precariously so that the leaves feel like they may touch my head.

Both are exercises intended to keep Japan's precariously sluggish economy from sliding back into recession.

The hotel perched precariously on a steep hillside.

The hotel was perched precariously on a steep hillside.

His name brings to mind images of naked women bound by ropes, often dangling precariously above the floor.

In the other a younger woman perches precariously on a tall stool, neon lights flashing around her.

Food had spilled on the floor. Lights and heat insulation dangled precariously from the ceiling.

Until they play a much bigger role, the country's financial system will remain precariously unbalanced.

The village is precariously perched on the side of a very steep hill about 6, 000ft up.

A bracelet was precariously placed on the rim of a well.

The Conservative primeministerfailed to win May 's general election outright precariously in coalition with theLiberal Democrats.

As a result, Georgia may now live precariously in the nether region between Russian autocracy and European liberalism .

She leaned precariously out of the window.

A group of boys, perched precariously atop a large electric utility box, acted as back-up singers.

Unlike in 2001, many economists now seem unusually eager to declare the US precariously near recession.

I remember the one light bulb in the classroom that hung from a long cord attached precariously to the ceiling.

This step would also help to expand Asia's precariously narrow tax base.

Then again, perhaps this is a false dichotomy and the answer hangs precariously somewhere in the middle.

She couldn't move, couldn't stop from laughing, and screamed for help through her tears, while the vase teetered precariously.

Asking for trouble: Idiotic parents have left their young baby in a precariously balanced washing basket

A car sits precariously on a bridge after it collapsed due to rising floodwaters in Huaiyuan, in southwest China's Sichuan province

a precariously balanced stack of books