Sentence examples for shaky structure from inspiring English sources

Digging a basement could add another $250,000 to an already expensive proposition, Mr. Glynn said, and would require moving a very shaky structure.

Instead of a plot, "Dinosaurs on the Roof" offers a string of incidents, with Bernice's increasingly doubtful anticipation of the rapture providing a shaky structure.

In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan – a sometime liberal and one of Harrington's drinking companions at the famed White Horse Tavern in Greenwich Village – blamed inner-city poverty on what he saw as the shaky structure of the "Negro family", clearing the way for decades of victim-blaming.

Ms. Lister was not convincingly cast as Donna Elvira, vocally speaking; but she managed to assemble the brittle notes, which in her weak opening scene comprised at best the shards of an aria, into some kind of shaky structure for "Mi tradi".

The appeal of Bitcoin comes from the belief that it enables those who use it to step outside the shaky structures of global finance.

A year later, it said the homicide law was a "rickety structure set upon shaky foundations", with some of the rules being in place since the 17th century.

The Law Commission criticised the current law on murder and homicide in England and Wales as a "rickety structure set upon shaky foundations" as long ago as 2005, and proposed a three-tier system of first-degree and second-degree murder and manslaughter.

"But the fact is, they left a very shaky political structure, one that has a very weak foundation.

As the singer, songwriter and leader of Deerhunter, Bradford Cox has built himself a woozy universe, where all structures are shaky and songs can be engulfed in noise or dissolved in reverberation at any moment.

Of course, some argue that you can simply underpin structures with shaky foundations.

Compared with rock-solid convertibles from some European manufacturers, the C70's structure can be shaky and its drivetrain feels coarse.