| However, another character in the novel offers a less forbearing view of the parlous financial circumstances of the audit staff. |
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| And how do you sap the energy of the insurgency when the parlous state of the economy keeps everyone desperately poor? |
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| When you realise his parlous financial state at the time, it seems less of a coincidence and unhappily more of a put-up job. |
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| I first wrote to you in May 1996 concerning the parlous state of the hulks and barges moored illegally along the waterfront by Waterman's Park. |
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| We come in day after day, lament the parlous state of the telecoms industry and resolve on a regular basis to get new means of employment. |
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| Finally, I want to talk quite seriously about the parlous state of politics in this House. |
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| As boss of these papers, such parlous statistics should be concentrating his mind wonderfully. |
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| He exudes rude health while all around are testimony to the effects of a parlous lifestyle and an indiscriminate diet of deep fries and alcoholic immoderation. |
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| This, though, is Ukraine, a country in an even more parlous condition than Greece and a more likely candidate to welch on its debts. |
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| However, the environment has reached a parlous state, as can be seen from natural disasters, and a credit crisis has been reached. |
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| It is therefore highly unlikely given its parlous financial state that the company would be able to secure any source of commercial finance. |
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| If the European project was not in such a parlous state, one might be tempted to laugh about it. |
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| And more unemployment is the last thing the European economy needs in its present parlous state. |
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| He was in a parlous state of health and the only possibility of rescue lay in a bone marrow transplant. |
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| Only the parlous condition of democratic Europe at war's end could have justified such a course. |
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| The authors are the first to admit that much of the information is patchy and of variable quality, reflecting the often parlous state of official data. |
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| Whether or not that support will be forthcoming in the numbers expected is a moot point following revelations about the parlous state of Britain's armed forces. |
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| They also counted on exploiting Honduras's parlous state of affairs among frightened voters. |
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| That is not a high level of income, but when one considers a number of other issues one finds that it is becoming even more difficult and parlous for people to live on it. |
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| The railways emerged in a parlous state, in dire need of a major overhaul. |
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| Is the state of American political fiction really so parlous perilous? |
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| In a more risk-averse environment, the parlous state of public finances and the balance of payments deficit fuelled the loss of confidence on the financial markets. |
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| Cities in parlous financial condition often need creditors to keep going. |
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| Where fish stocks are in a very parlous state, such as in Denmark, Sweden and the United Kingdom, cuts in fishing effort will have to be deeper than in the Mediterranean countries. |
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| While the high cost of schools is a recognized obstacle to the girls' enrolment, girls are clearly endangered by the parlous state of school facilities. |
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| In raising the matter as far back as 1988, I sought to highlight the parlous situation of many children leaving care with little support, financial or otherwise. |
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| While the total collapse of the cultural and educational infrastructures has been stopped, on closer inspection one sees that the individual parts are often in a parlous or terminal state. |
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| But the parlous state of our medium-term electricity supply needs no further demonstration, and the need for new local generating units is an established fact as far as the whole industry and the politicians are concerned. |
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| Rangers are a club with parlous finances, dependent on journeyman and making great demands of David Weir, a 40-year-old centre-back who should take pride in this result for the rest of his days. |
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| Despite millions of dollars in aid since the end of the war, healthcare facilities were parlous even before Ebola pushed the entire system to the limit. |
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| The parlous state of fish stocks and the economic recession tell us that a great deal still needs to be done, and we are addressing these problems in our debate on the Green Paper. |
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| We can decide, and the sooner we do this the better, as we are talking about people here, people in parlous circumstances, who we must rescue as quickly as possible. |
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| Bride make up take care under the professionals cameleer parlous. |
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| Impetus came originally from a growing awareness of the parlous state of preservation of, and access to, documentary heritage in various parts of the world. |
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| In the 1980s this reflected excessive lending in the newly deregulated market, leading to a banking crisis at the start of the 1990s when two of the majors were in a parlous state due to significant losses. |
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| Biodiversity protection outside specifically designated reserves is in an even more parlous state: here publicly funded activities are now virtually nonexistent. |
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| The situation became parlous when the weather made resupply impossible. |
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| The parlous American economy was thrown into chaos with prices soaring and unexpected shortages causing hardship in New England which was considering secession. |
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