Sentence examples similar to shaky bid from inspiring English sources

Seen mainly from overhead, ancient buildings are pitched every which way or lean one against another like invalids in shaky bids for support.

Their confidence would probably be shakier — and their bids lower — if that band had not been blessed last week by the more than 150 countries represented at the World Radiocommunication Conference, which meets every four to five years to evaluate global rules on how best to manage the airwaves.

A once-reliable Big East formula equating 17 victories with an N.C.A.A. bid is much more shaky in the expansion era.

Economic sanctions and war will continue to hurt the Iranian people, not its government, instead perpetuating a waning government whose bid for existence has a shaky moral compass.

If it did, then Transatlantic would be on much shakier ground in rejecting a higher monetary bid like National Indemnity's.

He overruled his advisers by endorsing a rival bid by Banca Popolare Italiana, a shaky institution run by a close friend, Gianpiero Fiorani.

Of the remaining four bids, Oslo is also surprisingly on shaky ground because of faltering political support, and Lviv, Ukraine, is widely considered certain to fall away because of the crisis in the country.

Instead South bid five clubs and was in a shaky contract.

Legal experts said the judge's remarks signaled that Hastert's bid to avoid prison could be on shaky ground.

Plenty of consumers already own PCs and seem content to make do with what they have, especially in a shaky economy in which less expensive mobile devices are bidding for a share of their wallets.

He lowered his bid to $4 a share, which prompted rumors of shaky financing.