For many girls across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, the circumstances are shakier.
A bit shaky under Delaware law, but given the circumstances, I find it hard to see how the Delaware courts would refuse to enforce it.
As a result of the starvation and dire circumstances, the opposition accepted the shaky truce by Assad's reconciliation committee hoping to prevent more loss of life.
Mr. Ross, who retired in 2001 after 32 years as a prosecutor, said many of the legal changes applied in rare circumstances, allowing prosecutors to nail down shaky cases that might otherwise fall apart.
Over the past few months, some of George Bush's harshest critics have reluctantly conceded that given the right circumstances, even a chief executive with shaky credentials can grow on the job.
This shaky compromise, however, could survive only as long as circumstances did not again force the association to confront the political implications of its ethical stance.
To initiate criminal proceedings under these circumstances would mean reliance on paper evidence or shaky eyewitnesses.
When a glamorous countess dies under mysterious circumstances in the 'Turk's' presence, things look shaky for the baron.
Under such circumstances it is easy to see why prime minister Antonis Samaras' shaky coalition government may, in fact, be trying to keep the troika at bay – at least until the euro elections in May.
Commenting on why it is unwise to look to outside circumstances for validation, McLean noted wryly, "The world's a shaky place".
Many of the images in "Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country" are shaky and blurred, captured with video cameras small enough to be quickly concealed in circumstances of danger and chaos.
