Sentence examples for shaky base from inspiring English sources
In an effort to strengthen his shaky base in the Midwest and the farm belt, the president surprised many delegates by choosing Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas, known as a tough, hard-hitting campaigner, to be his running mate.
But the historical record shows that narrow victories can grow into commanding political power; Lyndon B. Johnson's entire subsequent career rested upon the shaky base of a tainted Senate victory in Texas by just 87votess.
Democrats in and out of the Clinton camp have said that it would be difficult for her to launch a national campaign with a shaky base of support back home.
While the primary psychoactive chemical of cannabis, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is often vilified, fear of its adverse effects has been constantly exaggerated in perpetuation of a global political agenda based on an extremely shaky foundation based solely on ideology and a political agenda, rather than on science.
Some restaurants, built on the shaky bases of fashionable dishes and celebrity appeal, will have already been blown away.
In a 2013 article in the Atlantic, Twenge exposed the shaky bases of many of the facts often handed down to women as gospel.
In Guinea-Bissau, the interludes of democracy have been more fleeting than elsewhere, and seemingly built on shakier bases.
But most Republicans feel that a president's prominence ought to subject him to a higher standard.The White House attack on the obstruction-of-justice charge may prove successful; but its defence against perjury seems shakier, based on the same tortuous thinking as Mr Clinton's definitions of "sexual relations".
But all this conspicuous consumption is based on a shaky foundation: If something — an attack, a natural disaster or a major oil spill in the Gulf — should put the desalination plants out of operation, the emirate's reserves, now stored in above-ground water tanks, would be exhausted within 48 hours.
Newton's work was based on a very shaky foundation -- dividing zero by itself.
