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Sentence Examples The position of the Coptic communities is becoming more insecure and they are the first to feel the pinch of hardship. Her responses grew more tentative and insecure with each of his outrageously tactless remarks. Home rule has fallen into the hands of insecure, paranoid, self-protecting pygmies. But his would-be debonair, self-satisfied yet insecure dotard could not be more appropriately laughable or pitiful. The buses banned immediately were found to have defective brakes, tyres, air leaks, insecure doors and seats. By a cruel twist the town's All Saints' Church was locked for much of last week because one of its inner doors was insecure. The problem is that wireless access points default to the insecure configuration. The insecure computers have been taken offline until the equipment is in place. Otherwise, you risk improper and insecure configuration of all system software, as well as noncertifiable network design. Just look at Microsoft's buggy, insecure personal computer operating systems over the years. Officers were visiting homes and where they find windows and doors insecure they will hand out crime prevention advice to residents. The gang of three or four raiders got into the house through an insecure back door between 8pm and 8.20 pm on Saturday night. Only weeks before she had written to the council because of concerns about the insecure front door. It must be brought in before the Olympics to protect those in this insecure accommodation. He paused and thought about doubling down, but seemed afraid to put out the extra money on such an insecure gamble. The financial crisis has now left many of these banks on the verge of insolvency with large portfolios of insecure loans and bad debts. Computers and storage systems that are physically insecure pose a difficult challenge to enterprises as well. The door had been left insecure as she was expecting her home help to call. Without the ordinary user being able to make reasonable decisions about risk avoidance and risk acceptance, computers and networks are insecure. Many of these systems have insecure password management and are vulnerable to account spoofing and denial-of-service attacks. Show More Sentences Perhaps we're all feeling a little insecure, a little uneasy about all this spectacular consumption, this culture of disposability. In the Furness area, which includes Barrow, there were 404 burglaries, of which 36 per cent were due to insecure doors and windows. He added that the people are feeling insecure during the rule of present dispensation. Like many other people, I was turned off by the idea of applets, which were slow, insecure and buggy. The remainder of the protection is dependent upon insecure conventions and understandings. Or was the situation so insecure that relief never reached the population who needed it? Agriculture relies heavily on migrants to fill its low paid and insecure jobs. I was insecure about being some kind of a commando jock photographer, but once everyone was awake we'd hit the streets and the bros were psyched. He's jealous and insecure, wants to hear from her everyday, whines and moans when she calls, pummelling her with classic passive aggression. It's left me feeling rather insecure, and slightly terrified of the future. But people are still being made to work harder, in worse conditions, with more managerial bullying and in more insecure temporary jobs. It is an intensely insecure profession, pursued under the glare of a relentless media. I think the editorial went on to point out that, in addition to that, the political situation is very insecure. Like lots of people, I occasionally feel friendless and insecure, and this experience showed me how much my friends really value me. He was by nature insecure and self-doubting, the victim of depressive moods and bouts of indolence. The military takes care of all the tasks that it can take care of so long as the situation is insecure. Compare that with, say, a large proportion of the population who don't have those choices and are stuck in low paid, insecure jobs. One myth is that it makes jobs insecure in developed countries, or that insecurity is a price that must be paid for economic growth. A neglectful, stressed or inconsistent parent gave the kind of care which tended to lead to anxious, insecure or avoidant children. This will make them think they have brought up a well-balanced individual instead of a hideously insecure freak. Show More Sentences Children who learn at a different pace or are anxious or insecure can also be targets for bullies. The obsession with the far right tells us far more about insecure and uncertain elites than it does about political reality on the ground. Yet the attack has made such an impact on the anxious and insecure Western elites that there is serious talk of it causing an economic recession. They also become financially insecure especially with their dependence on their kith and kin after retirement. Although she followed this with hit after hit, she was desperately insecure and hid herself under thick make-up and a beehive hairdo. They are bereft, insecure and despairing immigrants left in the street to beg. Laurel has a remarkable ability to poke fun at whatever she's insecure about. The work that needs to be done at the bottom is performed by increasingly desperate but invisible workers living on the insecure economic edge. This meant there were fewer people doing more, and working longer hours, in intrinsically insecure jobs from top floor to the shop floor. Pretty soon this all-purpose waste will have its appalling effect on insects stirring in the old boy's worryingly insecure glass tanks. The lack of wireless encryption protocol does not in itself indicate an insecure network. They never have to face the hardship of feeling insecure or trustful towards their current partner. You end up with a whole lot of loose nails and your fixings are correspondingly insecure. Throughout the 60s and 70s, Jack Lemmon was typecast as a tense, neurotic, excruciatingly insecure pen pusher. Wannstedt wrecked his chances of succeeding with the Bears by micromanaging and by being too uptight and too insecure. Maybe your cat is insecure, but maybe there really is another cat encroaching on his turf. The basin is relatively insecure and offers little in the way of conventional safety equipment such as fire towers. But it is widely accepted now that prosecution service is under-powered, under-resourced, poorly managed and insecure about its purpose. Thus do an insecure, reclusive dictator and an insecure, impulsive foreign affairs naif hold the peace of the world in their hands. Her troubles, she insists, are now in the past, and the insecure young girl has grown into a confident woman. Show More Sentences Our Straussian disciple starts out like any graduate student-hapless, insecure, and terrified that he might not make the grade. The inferences made by the psychologists in your report suggest she is insecure or unsure of herself which is why she overreacts so much. It's overly simplistic to label a player insecure or unsure of his masculinity. Or are you just a typically poorly-educated, insecure Latina who enjoys the thought of being a community leader for her generation? But otherwise, it just makes you feel like an untrusting, paranoid, insecure freak. I helped Mantle with two books and came to understand how needy he was, how insecure. Their hidden belief is that if they remain insecure, dependent and needy their partner will look after them. People who constantly need to praise themselves are insecure or emotionally needy. The insecure manager or the non-communicative manager will generally fail with this approach. They appear anxious, insecure, cautious, sensitive and quiet, and often react by crying and withdrawing. When the mind and heart are at rest, they are not important or unimportant, secure or insecure, and this natural state is happiness. Everything that is happening out there says, people are insecure and uncertain about what's ahead. Many of these children become aligned with only one parent so they become less anxious and insecure. You are slightly insecure, and need to be constantly validated and praised by your lover in order to feel good about the relationship. We are constantly amazed at people leaving valuables on show in their cars or leaving their homes unattended and insecure. There's the Uniform Man, who is emotionally insecure, with a rigid and brittle temperament. He knew of the caravan site, found two insecure unoccupied vans, slept there and took items of low value. He may be insecure, but his insecurity expresses itself not in egomania or depression, but in a garrulous, love-me-do amiability. Suddenly cut loose from their benefactor Suharto, the security forces are as disoriented and insecure as many of their countrymen. Thus, the confident, happy associate or secretary may be more likely to complain than her insecure, anxious counterpart. Show More Sentences As ordinary life becomes more volatile, insecure and unpredictable in various ways, people search for security in whatever ways they can muster. Now, calamitously, your mother is likely to be so insecure and desperate that she wants to be your best friend. Perhaps I am feeling anxious and insecure, unappreciated, frustrated, and unable to take care of things and people that matter to me. I currently have elderly patients who describe feeling insecure when not wearing their hip protectors. Her platform focuses on unemployment, the old-age pension, and the insecure economic position of single women and widows. If you appear stiff, reserved, timid and insecure, they will feel repulsed. Feeling very exposed and insecure, I persistently tugged on my one-piece swimsuit, hoping that it would cover more skin. However, up to now, insecure, temporary or casual jobs were strictly regulated and constituted a minority. From this distance, though I hope I am wrong about this, his campaign seems quixotic, his footing insecure against the high tide of conservatism. He is a flawed, insecure character who seems suddenly to fear being left on his own. But how many paid any attention when companies started hoarding money on insecure infrastructures? You cannot have two mega-personalities in a relationship where both are needy, egotistical, insecure and dependent on public approbation. Nishi is an awkward, insecure manga artist who has never been able to properly confess his love for his childhood sweetheart Myon. Frequently on the run, we would occupy some huddle of rough huts from one insecure night till the next. He's the obnoxious, insecure, pathologically lying kid everyone knew in grade school. If this week people are clingy and dependant, easily offended and insecure, don't be manipulated by their whims of steel. Aniston stars as an emotionally insecure woman who is having an identity crisis after being proposed to by Ruffalo. The larger of the two, Arlen, comes across as an insecure bully, flaunting his juvenile snake tattoo and badgering Muldrow with idle threats. He was vacillating, bombastic, insecure and perfervid by turns, but his poetry is as delicately complex as any. This is a clear attempt to scratch the itch of racism, homophobia and bigotry and pander to the culturally insecure in order to grub for votes. Show More Sentences By such means insecure white people were given the familistic support of a clearly, if artificially created collectivity. Say phooey to all your gloating girlfriends who spend V-day with any old bloke just because they are too insecure to make it on their own. It is no surprise, in these circumstances, that survey after survey shows that workers feel more insecure and anxious than at any time in our peacetime history. His public persona is that of a strong, determined leader, but in private life he's very insecure. It was then that Leo was first exposed to Austin's more severe insecure side as he witnessed his friend wallow and suffer for a year to get Juliet's attention. Most are too insecure to consult a rabbi or join a religious community. The horses slithered down the shallow bank and onto the glassy surface at a rapid trot, but the black was mistrustful of the insecure footing and jibbed skittishly. I think she's a big, nervous, worrywart, who's really insecure sometimes. She didn't mean religious beliefs, only faith in some higher values, in some higher reality that made them feel secure in a very insecure situation. People are just jumping aboard the zeitgeist in insecure times. Perhaps we appreciate that poll-driven politics is insecure, rudderless, inconsequential and lacking in coherency, so we direct our attention inward to find meaning. The Orwell we encounter at the beginning of this book is Eric Blair, the Old Etonian drop-out and insecure drifter, more or less on his beam ends. He beautifully captures the Lord of the Flies cruelty of insecure adolescents grasping for their place on the ladder, mashing the faces of those below them under heel. With its eastern borders under siege from Russia, Ukrainians feel cornered and insecure. If they do, the jobs are low-level, part-time, temporary, insecure, and require supplementing with freelancing. School is a visually-competitive, weird, and cutting environment, and everyone is so insecure. But President Putin, What if Every Man Who is insecure About His Masculinity Invaded Crimea? It has become an insecure and even threatening place for me. But an insecure majority constantly seeks confirmation of its own superiority by searching for inferiorities in others. A lot of comedians are insecure show-offs, and not particularly funny. Show More Sentences I was a shrimpy, insecure city kid when I first went to camp. We meet Nell, a plump, insecure student at Drama Arts who laments losing lead roles to the beauties dominating her profession. To me, this paints a picture of a deeply insecure woman who had long since waved goodbye to the verge of paranoia and blundered into the chasm of abject delusion. Meanwhile, slouchy, insecure Brigitte starts feeling complex emotions. It had always been a popular system of out-relief for the unemployed of every other profession, including the notoriously insecure and unremunerative one of politics. Why would he wanna crawl after such an insecure, uptight little snot? Somehow, we must each admit that we are tiny, insecure, and needy. People often become bulimic because they are unhappy or insecure. The latter two are deviously funny as perverts, self-aggrandising but insecure bounty hunters, game-show-host-styled hangmen, and lords and ladies of the depraved aristocracy. He is equal parts superior, insecure, vain, snobbish, and fearful. I'm not convinced we should coddle people who, by the time they reach the postdoc level, are so insecure they won't even apply for the jobs they actually want. However, we find she has piddled on the bed, which is her particular place, again suggesting that she is feeling insecure about her tenure of the house. I felt I was very inhibited and shy and insecure in many ways. Acting Sergeant Paul Evans from Skipton Police said that residents needed to be mindful about leaving their doors and windows open or insecure in the warm weather. Unfortunately due to an insecure external door he was able to slip out of a communal area within the custody unit into the rear enclosed car park of the police station. Each time the intruders have got in through insecure windows and doors. The front door remains insecure from the last time it was kicked in. He was probably the only director of genius to emerge from the Hollywood system during the '60s, the most insecure period of its history since the coming of sound. The majority of the Irish who made their way to London were extremely poor and were therefore again restricted to the most insecure or poorly paid jobs. This relative increase is commensurate with Burchell's finding that increased depression scores in unemployed men are not reduced by re-employment in an insecure job. Show More Sentences But still this is a dangerous period and an insecure period for Najaf. The price of this shift was the replacement of secure well-paid jobs in traditional industries with often insecure and relatively low-paid jobs in services. We wanted U.N. support, but it would not stay in an insecure situation. A lot of traditional male jobs have become more insecure and low paid. And they are not insecure, fearful, anxious as so many of their peers are. It's normal to feel insecure, but don't cower and avoid uncertainty. High turnover makes remaining employees feel uncertain and insecure. I am also feeling anxious and insecure and I'm not really sure why. When teens are depressed, anxious, insecure, angry, frustrated or just plain feeling crummy inside, they often act out as a way of expressing negative feelings. The 50-year-old Ukrainian was injured when a lifeboat he was in became insecure on its davits and dropped about 2ft while his ship was moored at Parkeston Quay. Certainly ignorance tends to make people defensive and a little insecure. My sweet, sweet daughter has become a very entitled, insecure young woman. The insecure heterosexual shuddered at the prospect that he would no longer be the active agent. Women and young people are more likely to live in food insecure households. As parks became increasingly threadbare and the parkie an extinct breed, visitors were left feeling insecure, and the future looked grim. When this exceeded the capacity of the ships' magazines, cordite was stored in insecure places. The group felt insecure about the lack of a contract and was frustrated by the direction in which Heart Management was steering them. Hours after the referendum, the socialist opposition cited the hack attacks as an example of how insecure e-voting can be. But despite the tighter security, the porousness of the border and the proximity of ISIL have left Turkish residents feeling insecure. Rudy's best quality is he has a double, a quieter doppleganger, his sensitive insecure side made flesh. Show More Sentences He is frequently characterised in his later life as a lustful, egotistical, harsh, and insecure king. They see gun rights as insecure, malleable, and under constant attack. Gilmour stood on a flightcase on castors, an insecure setup supported from behind by a technician. He's a nice guy and all, but seems to be rather insecure around other people. I was horribly insecure, horribly shy, always feeling ugly and weak. William's western border was thus secured, but his border with Brittany remained insecure. Presented in compact form, Fritz transforms from insecure teenage girl to powerful B-movie actress. Most of the urban poor in developing countries unable to find work, can spend their lives in insecure, poorly paid jobs. Although people know making a video call is the best way to let their feelings show, yet many people don't prefer that because they feel less confident and insecure. If not, then she's being too controlling and is majorly insecure. Benton, who set up Lifeworks to conduct workshops for parents, says children growing up with such co-parents are invariably confused, insecure and have low self-esteem. Uptalk is typically associated with young southern Californian females, which leads to stereotypic parody of uptalkers as insecure, shallow or non-intellectual. A native Haligonian, the bookish son of a Wexford sea captain, Power was shy and insecure and had resisted appointment to the episcopacy out of fear of failure. Significant drivers of low pay include insecure and precarious work, casualisation, a minimum wage that is not a living wage and a significant pay gap between women and men. Examples from Classical Literature In the vanity typical of the insecure, they abnegate all foreign knowledge. Folding beds and lounges even of the best type are unhygienic, usually too low for the patient's comfort, and often insecure. The public morals are insecure till the family is chastely planted, the state guarded by the continency of its male members. He left her with the feeling that the foundations70 of life, as she was leading it, were insecure. The thing typified all that was fast, insecure, and subcutaneously oily in modern life. He realized that his tenure was insecure, and he dreaded exposure. Her foot slipped from its insecure rock hold and she stumbled. The friendship of nations will still be insecure and shifting. No moneys were at that time more insecure than those owing from the king. I knew it from her insecure temperament, her adventurousness, her needs. Lambert, the comptroller General, is thought to be very insecure. The recent spate of incidents involved some properties that had sadly been left insecure. But this is insecure ground, and the meaning can but be guessed at. If your stepdaughter is feeling insecure and unloved then it is important that you give her plenty of positive reassurance and support. Ever since IS has upheaved in parts of Afghanistan the horror has widely been shadowing every single day in insecure parts of the country. As one replaces an object of insecure equilibrium, so he carefully replaced his belief on its shaky pedestal and carefully stepped back from it so as not to shake or upset it. Blanchett is striking, playing an insecure but conceited woman whose neediness is balanced by a loneliness that makes her a complex but desperately charismatic personality. Such dim broodings of an insecure elitist might become intolerable over the years and chapters, if it weren't for the interesting multiplicity of Auden's character. Find more words! 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