Sentence examples for shaky memory from inspiring English sources

One problem with this city is that it is cursed with a shaky memory.

With Nene's disappearance, the public defender had only the inadmissible hearsay of the girlfriend's statement and Ovando's shaky memory.

The detectives made promises of increased protection, though he and they understood the limits of that promise, just as everyone understood that it would have been a simple matter for Mr. Nunez to sidestep his dilemma by, say, developing a shaky memory, or visiting his family in the Dominican Republic.

Playfully deflating his own narrative authority by allowing admittedly shaky memories to stand as fact, Achebe juxtaposes ostensibly mild personal anecdotes with serious political reflections.

For much of the 20th century, prosecutors served up the forensic scientist as a source of certainty amid fleeting glimpses, shaky memories and disputed confessions.

In Miles's case, police began the process of contaminating the witnesses' already shaky memories as soon as they created the six-packs, according to advocates and experts who reviewed the case.

Though his memory was shaky, Ovando told the public defender that before he was shot the officers handcuffed him and a friend known as Nene and questioned them about a Pomona burglary that had supposedly yielded the gang an arms cache.

If the South African's putting remains shaky, then at least his memory remains vivid.

My memory may be shaky, but I don't remember such music from the Reagan inaugural.

In her forthcoming study, Dr. Levy found that older people exposed to negative images of aging, including words like "forgetful," "feeble" and "shaky," performed significantly worse on memory and balance tests; in previous experiments, they also showed higher levels of stress.

Older people are often not perceived as reliable witnesses because their memories can be shaky or they may be easily confused on the stand.