The phrase "a shaky relationship with" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a relationship that is unstable or uncertain, often implying tension or conflict between parties.
Example: "After years of disagreements, she found herself in a shaky relationship with her business partner."
Alternatives: "a tenuous relationship with" or "an unstable relationship with".
But politicians have long had a shaky relationship with ordinary people.
Like Paxo, Beadle also has a shaky relationship with the BBC's top brass, whom he witheringly described to me as "rich arrogant pricks who sit at the top with our money and then just make fools out of us".
But McQueen also makes the character believable: a committed man feeling genuine anger at the corrupt politician (Robert Vaughn) he doggedly trails, while embroiled in a shaky relationship with girlfriend Jacqueline Bisset.
Alvin Paul Ruddd) is in a shaky relationship with the sister of Lance Emile Hirschh), who is getting fed up with the rural isolation and is keen to get back to the city to "get the little man squeezed".
(Holland) NEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY (Sunday) Paul Haas conducts "The Other Rainbow" by Roger Zare and Stravinsky's challenging "Rite of Spring". 2 p.m., Carnegie Hall, (212) 247-7800; $7 to $55. (Holland) PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA (Tuesday) For all reports, Christoph Eschenbach, now in his third season as music director, has had a shaky relationship with the Philadelphia players.
While Blum has had a shaky relationship with the NRCC after he voted against Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) for speaker, the group has still anted up $980,000 in outside spending against his Democratic opponent, Monica Vernon, in Iowa's 2nd District.
Since this, Gemma and John have a very shaky relationship with one another, and she began a sexual relationship with Epiphany's crime-boss father Terry in order to "punish" John.
Mr. Chanticleer had several careers as a culture-maker, but for all his creativity, his most extravagant invention was probably Raven Chanticleer himself, a strikingly handsome, larger-than-life figure who regaled stranger and friend alike in a carnival barker's voice with tales that enjoyed a sometimes shaky relationship with the truth.
In the hands of a skilled political opponent, Clinton might have been successfully painted as the kind of person with, at best, a shaky relationship to the truth.
Owen wrote one of the most hostile reviews of Darwin's work, which turned a shaky relationship between the two scientists into a permanent rift (Desmond and Moore 1991).
