Sentence examples for on less firm from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, the notion that lying to or misleading league officials constitutes a violation of the policy is on less firm ground.

But he is on less firm ground when he campaigns for the rewilding of upland areas that have been husbanded by generations of hill farmers.

The holding of the Court of Appeals that this was not harmless error is on less firm grounds in view of the strong evidence against Henry, including the testimony of a neutral fellow inmate, Henry's rental of the hideaway house, and his presence there with the other participants in the robbery before the crime.

But while it was plausible for the Tories to claim that Britain in 1987 was unrecognisable from the Britain of the late 1970s, when inflation had reached nearly 30% and trade union leaders were thought to be the most powerful men in the land, Labour finds itself on less firm ground.

Free safety Shaun Williams will most likely get a chance to bounce back from a knee injury because he has two years left on a contract that pays him $2.8 million next year, but strong safety Omar Stoutmire is on less firm ground.

The group's most recent financial projections show that while its individual schools are bringing in more money than they are spending, the organization that manages them is on less firm ground.

In "Pain Won't Kill You" he draws clever parallels between love and technology; "The Chinese Puffin" blends golf and ornithology into angry tirades on consumerism and conservation.Mr Franzen is on slightly less firm ground with his book reviews, which seldom get to the heart of the matter.

For investors in once-attractive foreign markets, the fear was that those markets may be on even less firm economic footing than the United States', and consequently less able to absorb the decline in lending that comes along with rising interest rates.

The company appears on much less firm ground with its Orwell quote, however: "The famous author George Orwell came out publicly and said about the new paperback format, if 'publishers had any sense, they would combine against them and suppress them.' Yes, George Orwell was suggesting collusion.

The ability of two conservative Florida Republicans to make such inroads simply by campaigning diligently suggests that the Democratic hold on Latinos is less firm than many believed.

Since American democracy has stood on more or less firm ground for centuries, it won't drop to its knees so easily.