Sentence examples for unstable foundations from inspiring English sources

Moreover, a new sarcophagus costing as much as $750 million will probably have to be built, since the current one rests on potentially unstable foundations and suffers from intrusions of rainwater that create clouds of humidity in the radioactive darkness, corroding the maze of pipes and steel girders and increasing the risk of collapse.

This sort of pomp and circumstance is thrilling as a child and a bit embarrassing as an adult, but maybe we never quite shake our earlier, atavistic awe, and our later sense of sophisticated, ironic detachment is built on unstable foundations.

Short cuts lead to unstable foundations; shallow roots that produce weak branches.

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Brazil shows how a nation can create an AIDS infrastructure atop an unstable foundation.

Not being able to articulate your identity is to start every meeting from an unstable foundation: you're awkward because you're waiting for the cracks to show.

And Mr. Lefebvre laid a mischievously unstable foundation; on "Losing Track of Daytime" he briefly adopted the warp and wobble of a dubstep groove.

Related The Sunday Book Review on The Big Short (April 18 , 2010 The clear and present danger posed by this deranged edifice built on the unstable foundation of subprime mortgages was not foreseen by the chief executives of America's premier banks.

That wary vulnerability was of a piece with his body of work — see "Fortress Around Your Heart" or even "Message in a Bottle" — but Sting gave it a wilder, more unstable foundation here.