Or "this will set off a cascade of tariffs by various countries on grounds much flimsier than China's currency manipulation".
Just comparing the season brochures gives a palpable feel of the change in fortunes: Next season's is much flimsier, 20 pages instead of 40.
Thousands were saved last year by Italy's search and rescue operation, Mare Nostrum, but that unit was stood down last autumn, replaced by a European operation with a much flimsier mandate.
Statistics on gun violence are much flimsier, so we don't know what policies would work best, and much of the data hurled by rival camps at each other is inaccurate.
Since Obamacare passed, various GOP plans based on these principles have been floated, and they have reliably raised concerns among experts that they would fail to cover nearly as many people as the ACA does, and that those who manage to afford insurance would have much flimsier plans.
OTHER NOTES: Any person who, while gazing upon THE SHIRT, says, "It looks so much flimsier in real life," or "Well, it's no Mr. Rochester's shirt," or "Why am I looking at a shirt?" shall be promptly ejected from the premises.
As it did with "Thriller" and "Tapestry," the herd has moved toward something durable and dependable in a world when so much seems flimsy or broken (or overproduced).
SOME of Mr. Obama's top advisers worried that the intelligence suggesting that Bin Laden was in the Abbottabad compound was circumstantial and much too flimsy to justify the risks involved.
No, one or two statistics and a single Fed announcement are much too flimsy to use to gauge future inflation.
He is a great corrective to so much fancy and flimsy tinkering in contemporary painting.
