Sentence examples for shaky debate from inspiring English sources
He added that Rubio's shaky debate performance "proved he was not ready".
Most of these experienced players know that Romney still has a solid chance at winning Florida, but they also understand that a shaky debate performance could doom him there.
Mr. Romney's aides said they were confident their sustained attacks portraying Rick Santorum as a Washington insider, and Mr. Santorum's shaky debate performance in Arizona on Wednesday, had slowed their rival's recent surge here in Michigan.
And his shaky debate performances, statements on Social Security and the recent controversy over a racial epithet painted on a rock in his hometown have created concern among members of the Tea Party that he might not be able to win next year.
Instead, momentum has shifted to Mr. Santorum despite a shaky debate performance last week, a barrage of attacks by the Romney campaign that he is not a true conservative and even his remark, which he has sought to take back, that President John F. Kennedy's speech on the separation of church and state had made him want to vomit.
But his shaky debate performance Thursday night in Florida underscored concerns among establishment Republicans and donors about his electability and his skills as a candidate on a national stage — and the difficulty he has had planting serious doubts about Mr. Romney.
That means to a large degree proving they can govern competently a test that the shaky, debate-canceling John McCain failed badly and paid a heavy price for in 2008.
But Mondale said last week that he had found Reagan so shaky during the debate that "I was scared he'd fall down".
But Mondale told me, in a conversation about his book, that he found Reagan so shaky during the debate that "I was scared he'd fall down".
Bill Clinton has privately told friends that if Hillary didn't win, it would be because of the two weeks that followed her shaky performance in the Philadelphia debate.
He particularly criticizes Human Rights Watch for insisting on free debates and elections in shaky nations (like Rwanda) that in his view lack the institutional foundations for democracy, or are openly threatened by ethnic or religious tensions.
