given the bank's parlous state

To date, Sanders’s most public, but also most parlous, statements on his own Semitism occurred in the first two of his two-person debates with Hillary

Diana laughs to herself at her ineffectuality and at the parlous state of the world

Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, taking out the island’s power grid, water system, and communications. It also exposed the parlous state of affairs in the United States’ largest remaining colony

the "parlous state" of German unions

If the Revolution had not been in such a parlous condition at the time, Kun would have had to face questioning about two other crimes.

the vast German market was flooded with the output of English factories, conveniently drawing scarce capital into the outlet of public debt, thereby relieving the parlous finances of a government resisting parliamentary control of the budget

But the country’s armed forces, albeit somewhat modernised since 1904, are still in a parlous state.

similarly parlous risk

At this moment he even had his hands clasped, and for a parlous moment, stood stock still at the door.