The phrase "shaky premise" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It can be used to refer to a weak or uncertain foundation or argument. Example: The success of the new policy is based on a shaky premise that has not been thoroughly researched.
The couple's relationship had a decidedly shaky premise.
The second shaky premise is the notion that Republicans are keen on restoring the Bush dynasty.
In two crisp sentences Greig skewers the shaky premise on which the nuclear options rest.
This new US sitcom once again rolls out the cross-dressing cliches, on the supposedly timely but extremely shaky premise that women are now taking all the good jobs, thus forcing its male stars to drag up.
Racial mixing was something that could never be acknowledged because Jim Crow society teetered on the shaky premise that blacks and whites were separate species, even if a look around proved otherwise.
This is Aeschylus for the modern age, rightly leaving us to draw our own conclusions about the shaky premises on which political leaders go to war.
In a recent series of papers, we lay out a case that much research for the analysis of gene function from network-like data (using Guilt By Association; GBA) is based on somewhat shaky premises.
The most impressive thing about Craig Brewer's remake of "Footloose" — the 1984 Kevin Bacon movie with the Kenny Loggins theme song that will now be stuck in my cranium for another 27 years — is that it handles its shaky, shopworn premise with sensitivity and conviction.
The shaky legal premise for this whole system is that once taken in via some sort of legal means (though of course there is no outside control that all of the data was gathered legally), the data becomes akin to common property, and no further justification or judicial oversight needs to be applied to its use, any use, ever, forever.
An even shakier legal premise it that a secret database of any kind can be maintained by the police: Virginia law, The Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act, specifically states "There shall be no personal information system whose existence is secret".
And Lin and I raising two girls seemed like the artistically shaky yet marketable premise of a situation comedy; Two Men and Two Little Ladies, they'd call it.
