Sentence examples for shaky basis from inspiring English sources

"This is a very, very shaky basis, given the differences that can occur," Mr. Avery said.

Awkwardly, the one point on which most of the legal experts agreed was that censure has a shaky basis in the constitution.

But it is not the nation's problem, and certainly not a reason for dismantling the ever shaky basis of personal freedom from state power.

As well as providing a shaky basis to build effective actions, the Reef 2050 Plan has few measurable or realistic targets.

We might agree this is the most appropriate and patriotic response but history shows us this supposed convention has a shaky basis in fact.

Greenspan's successor will have a tough task in maintaining his reputation as the guru of Wall Street: but if the pessimists are right about the shaky basis of the current economic recovery, that reputation may yet be tarnished.

This lays a shaky etymological basis for trance music, which was first cited in The Guardian in 1970 about shamanist tribal music played in Ethiopia.

But neither Shteir nor Orbach seems able to explain why women should be any more likely than men to respond to their emotional deficiencies by stealing, and neither takes account of the shaky statistical basis of what they are trying to explain.

The government is relying on a shaky legal basis for bombing the Islamic State.

The decision put the trials on a shaky legal basis, as foreign nationals were being tried for crimes against foreigners in a foreign country.

The Trump administration's proposal to send Islamic State fighters to the offshore prison at Guantanamo Bay could end up destroying the shaky legal basis for the yearslong U.S. bombing campaign against the terrorist group.