Sentence examples for shaky like from inspiring English sources

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"The nigga shaky, like a earthquake," he said.

This may be because they have lots of roads and not many people to tax, or because their finances are shaky, like Rhode Island's.

It was scary because the guy had the gun out in his hand and he looked kind of shaky, like he didn't know what he wanted to do".

So anything that makes companies' long-term earnings prospects look even a little bit shaky like signs that China's economy will never grow at seven per cent annually again — can lead to a sharp sell-off.

And as they trade barbs, dreams of the dictator's miraculous survival and the doctor's happy family turn shaky "like a child's castle of blocks between them, ready to collapse at a single clumsy step".

"When the job market is really shaky like we're seeing right now, and a person has a job, they're really not looking to risk it," says Rony Kahan, cofounder of job-hunting site indeed.com, where, tellingly, traffic is at its highest around lunchtime on Monday afternoons.

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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.

With his resignation, Mr. Boc joined leaders from around the European Union who have left office: in countries that have received bailouts, like Portugal, Greece and Ireland; in those on shaky ground like Spain and Italy; and in more fiscally stable countries like Finland, Denmark and Slovakia.

At the same time, seemingly safe institutions in more solid economies like France and Germany hold vast amounts of bonds from their more shaky neighbors, like Spain, Portugal and Greece.

Things are so bad, in fact, that some producers are pinning their hopes on seemingly shaky markets like Afghanistan.

Nothing would force Americans to close ranks and shore up a shaky administration like a good little war.

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