Sentence examples for a shaky basis from inspiring English sources

Awkwardly, the one point on which most of the legal experts agreed was that censure has a shaky basis in the constitution.

As well as providing a shaky basis to build effective actions, the Reef 2050 Plan has few measurable or realistic targets.

A Sino-Russian strategic partnership is often portrayed as an "axis of convenience" founded on a shaky basis.

But it's a shaky foundation.

That would make for a shaky foundation for large-scale programs to improve environmental health.

Double binds constitute a shaky foundation for consistent practice and for effective public policy.

"This is a very, very shaky basis, given the differences that can occur," Mr. Avery said.

All abridgments and additions are part of their period; we scoff at the eighteenth century for cutting the tragic end of "Lear" and tacking on a happy one, but the recent, much praised Royal Shakespeare production added a gratuitous Grand Guignol hanging of the poor Fool, on the shaky basis of a sideways reference to his death two acts later.

The Würzburg school's claims, despite their shaky basis, undoubtedly contributed to a sense that imagery could not be so psychologically important as had traditionally been assumed, and that an alternative way of thinking about cognitive content was needed.

This lays a shaky etymological basis for trance music, which was first cited in The Guardian in 1970 about shamanist tribal music played in Ethiopia.

The decision put the trials on a shaky legal basis, as foreign nationals were being tried for crimes against foreigners in a foreign country.