Sentences with phrase «be on shaky ground when»

He still loves his American flags (this time, it floats limply in an abandoned Libyan embassy's swimming pool), and he'll always be on shaky ground when a movie's plot basically turns on a bunch of heavily armed bros stranded in a parking lot, waiting for a rescue go - ahead that came minutes too late.

For a short time, cycling's biological passport program seemed to be on shaky ground when the Italian Olympic Committee last October cleared Pellizotti of a doping violation.

The authors are on shakier ground when they draw causal inferences.

The comparisons to financial markets are getting OT and a little silly, but bender is on shaky ground when he claims that historical stock price movements are ``... «informative» in the sense of information theory...» In fact, the weak - form Efficient Market Hypothesis, which is the basis of much of modern finance, posits the exact opposite — that all relevant information is contained in the current stock price and there is no informational content in historical movements.

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I like Stephen Hawking and the boost he has given to physics, but he's on shaky ground (or space - time) when he rules out philosophical possibilities on the basis of physics.

It may well be true that self - consciousness about standing on such shaky ground is the reason why the talk of a woman's «right» to abortion services has become an uncritical mantra, rising to a aggressive assertion when challenged, for this kind of feminist.

Listen you obviously like him and he has a heart breaking back story regarding his kidney failures and family life but when in a moral argument all you can do is say someone else is worse you are usually on shaky ground.

Which is why, when the inquiry's report attempts to explain the background for how this should come about, it is on distinctly shaky ground.

Dating to the Depression era when insurance companies were on shaky financial ground, this fund gets contributions from employers when they settle claims.

Or are you just looking for someone who is a good listener and can act as a sounding board when you find yourself on shaky ground?

Yet hes on shakier ground when the focus shifts to Butchers feckless sibling Nobby (Cohen): a beer - swilling, football - loving benefits cheat who tracks Seb down after 28 years for what he hopes will be an emotional reunion.

(I'm usually on shaky ground when it comes to legal theory and terminology, as our gracious host knows!

When even a top ExxonMobil executive starts complaining about the impacts of fracking, you know that shale gas is on shaky ground.

Just when newly disclosed documents obtained by the New York Times reveal the financial shaky ground on which fracking companies base their claims, a group on Congressmen are urging President Obama to further embrace natural

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