Sentence examples for flimsy basis from inspiring English sources
The committee's members appear to be unimpressed by what one described as the story's "flimsy basis".
Even the romantic notion of ending his career at Everton, his boyhood club, is a flimsy basis for negotiation.
The tips of their tongues touching their teeth when they say "t", or saying "doze" instead of "those" seems a flimsy basis for mistrust.
To call her the New Graf, though, is pointlessly to burden her with a responsibility no player should have to bear on the flimsy basis of a common homeland.
But doubts and suspicions are a flimsy basis for charges that undermine a man's character — calling someone a liar is fighting talk and it is far from clear, at this stage, that those making the charge have a case.
Three years later they returned, and were beaten for the first time on English soil, surprisingly enough by Third Division Aston Villa, who won 2-1 in a game delayed after the Santos goalkeeper Cejas refused to start the second half on the slightly flimsy basis that one of the floodlight pylons had gone out.
Given that Mr. Gingrich led the Iowa and national polls mere weeks ago, the post-mortems for his campaign have literally already been written, with the news media depicting him as an Icarus-like figure who fell back to earth on the basis of a flimsy foundation.
In it, he summarises the flimsy empirical basis on which the connection between radical theology and terrorism has been built and the extent to which the burgeoning radicalisation industry, especially in academia, is linked by a revolving door to conservative political lobbyists keen to blame conservative Islam for terrorism.
Does it call for smearing people on the basis of flimsy conspiracy theories?
Acting on advice from ministers of the former Taliban regime, he has set up a High Peace Council to make contact with the insurgents, and has tried to arrange the release of Taliban prisoners held on the basis of flimsy intelligence.
The revelation will dash hopes that Mr Blair will finally detail in public why he committed British troops to the disastrous military invasion on the basis of flimsy intelligence.
