Meanings of precarious tenure in English

The earlier aristocracy had a precarious tenure of strength and audacity.

But the gratitude of a savage is ever a precarious tenure.

The Border States held their negroes by a precarious tenure.

Notwithstanding the precarious tenure of their existence, they all continued jealously to guard their exclusive privileges.

The aristocracy, of which Colonel Byrd was a shining light, nevertheless held by a somewhat precarious tenure.

The old anxiety as to her precarious tenure of her present quarters put on again all its familiar terrors.

The precarious tenure of fame

In his determined purpose he held the mine, and the indomitable bandit held the Campo by the same precarious tenure.

He is well paid and holds his position, whatever it may be, by a less precarious tenure than his American congener.

For some eighty years after this settlement on James's Bay, the Company held a precarious tenure of their forts and factories.

Here and there on the coasts, living by most precarious tenure, was a sprinkling of missionaries, traders, bêche-de-mer fishers, and whaleship deserters.

Five czars, from Michael Romanoff to the Great Peter, had held, over their enormous territory, the precarious tenure of their iron power!

The limits of the empire varied at different times, for the conquered States which composed it were held together by a precarious tenure.

As for his sons having it by the precarious tenure of election, by which his father now holds it, 'a la bonne heure'.