Sentences with phrase «of shaky ground»

Well, Steve Hemmerstoffer, who runs @OnLeaks on Twitter, may have an answer, even if it's on a bit of shaky ground:

Xapo says that it won't serve U.S. customers, potentially because of the shaky ground beneath the whole bitcoin topic.

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And whenever Facebook moves the levers of its news feed algorithm, you can almost hear that shaky ground shifting underneath almost every news outlet, since so many of them rely increasingly on Facebook for their livelihood.

With the iPhone now on shakier ground, Apple and outside analysts have talked up the «services» business as the fastest - growing source of revenue.

But the center is on shakier ground in assuming that articles about «pornography, sexting, BDSM, group sex, anal sex,» or other topics of sexual pleasure are connected to issues of sexual assault and harassment.

The short, stunted life of Aereo illustrates the consequences of basing a business on shaky legal ground.

But as Mary Thompson reports, millions of California homeowners don't have earthquake insurance, putting many of them on very shaky ground.

In its bid to block flows of diluted bitumen, the Horgan government is relying on a B.C. Environmental Management Act provision to regulate transport of harmful substances, and the province may be on shaky legal ground if it restricts one transportation mode and not another.

Increasing numbers of workers find themselves on shaky ground, turned into freelancers, temps and contractors.

If your credit score is already on shaky ground, you might want to consider equity financing instead, where credit scores don't play as much of a role.

Ever since the beginnings of the USSR, religion there has stood on shaky ground.

This meant that almost all of late 19th - century theology was on shaky ground.

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.

Especially since most of what I have been taught (and most of what I taught) over the years now seems to be on shakier ground than I knew.

I think that those who condemn her understanding and piecing together of support for her argument are themselves standing on shaky ground, indeed.

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.

But Green Bay, which beat Detroit 28 - 18 to run its record to an NFC - best 8 - 1, isn't the only one of the three preseason Super Bowl favorites on shaky ground.

Looked shaky early on, misplacing plenty of passes — some did well to stay in the ground.

The home support will be a big twelfth man for them here and with Liverpool treading on shaky ground having picked up just one win in their last matches in all competitions, a place in the fourth round of the league cup could be beckoning.

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.

For all its undeniable strength and its ability to hammer the living daylights out of opposition, Chelsea FC is on shaky ground.

The unilateral nature of the action puts it on more shaky ground, but a missile strike on a base is not going to remove Assad, in and of itself, and is not in conjunction with the seizing of any territory, so the claim that it threatens the «territorial integrity or political independence» would be difficult to build a consensus around.

New Yorkers know Tom is looking out for their pensions, helping guide local governments off of shaky fiscal ground and he's always there to help.

Should this happen, Nick Clegg could be left standing on pretty shaky ground, which once again explains why he is so keen to be making promises to local people on behalf of the Coalition Government.

That's on shaky legal ground, say experts, as is his trial balloon to reduce reliance on the state's income tax in favor of a statewide payroll tax on employers.

If this is interpreted to mean the full term the lawmaker is elected to, regardless of whether he or she resigns, Mr. Cuomo's appointment could be on shaky ground.

Environmental groups warned the simmering threat of diminished revenue may erode the shaky alliance they have forged with local governments over the past decade, allowing them to find common ground on issues like clean water infrastructure and economic development initiatives.

Last March, after the Sendai earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, the aftershocks of the disaster seemed to put the worldwide nuclear power industry on shaky ground.

Some of the companies that were the most difficult to deal with were on shaky financial ground, and they've gone out of business.

It's a declaration of strength, whatever strength you have right now, and a promise that no matter how shaky things get, you'll stand your ground.

It's the most stressful time of year, especially for couples on shaky ground.

With the economy on shaky ground and the multiple aftershocks of banks disappearing on a weekly basis, how does one manage to court, date, and look their best in the cyber-dating world?

The inconsistency of Thanos power throughout the movie, and the basic problem with wanting to have Cap and Black Window front and center, always had this movie on shaky ground to start.

A scene near the end of «Graduation,» involving Romeo and his young son, hints that even a 7 - year - old is already on shaky ground.

Flinging special effects shots of alien spacecraft bombing buildings and shaky - cam confusion to the soldiers on the ground just isn't enough of a story to keep a nearly two - hour film afloat, and not long after the film starts does it run out of anything but the most basic ideas on what to do with its characters and where they should go.

The episode, The Becoming, was on pretty shaky ground legally and the farcical subplot almost detracted from an arc involving a pair of gay soldiers — one of whom had a terminal brain tumor and had decided to try an experimental procedure devised by Drs. Derek «McDreamy» Shepard [Patrick Dempsey] and Meredith Grey [Ellen Pompeo].

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.

Innumerable games have used shaky cameras, but Gravity Rush uses it to perfection — not too extreme, but it conveys that something is going on, adding just enough of an extra touch to the free falling and smashing into the ground.

Beyond that we're on slightly less shaky ground with previous Best Director nominee Aronofsky delivering a large - scale biblical epic that still managed to be idiosyncratically his own (some would say to its detriment): love or loathe «Noah» it can't be faulted for ambition or scale, nor for the craftsman aspect of the directing skill on display.

In a new article for Education Next, Boston College professor Shep Melnick says OCR is on shaky legal ground, since its «Letter» fails to take into account the landmark Rodriguez v. San Antonio Board of Education (1973), which ruled that neither the Constitution nor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 require equal distribution of school resources across school districts.

Other popular education programs have put the age - old policy of banning state aid to religious K - 12 schools on increasingly shaky ground.

«On Shaky Ground» by California Watch is a California «investigation uncovering the systemic failures by the state's chief regulator of construction standards for public schools.»

CSAB heard this week from the leaders of seven charter schools that are on shaky ground — and most of those schools are experiencing financial troubles.

To claim that charter schools are part of the public school system is shaky ground.

Don't quote me on this part — I'm on shakier research ground here — but I believe originally charter schools were even meant to be schools - within - schools and incorporated fully into the general administration of the public system.

While these assumptions have an attractive ring to them, they rest on shaky ground, at best; the evidence to date suggests that few principals have made the time and demonstrated the ability to provide high quality instructional feedback to teachers.17 Importantly, the few well - developed models of instructional leadership posit a set of responsibilities for principals that go well beyond observing and intervening in classrooms — responsibilities touching on vision, organizational culture, and the like.18

The publishers» legal ground may be shakier Apple's because, almost simultaneously, they entered into similar contracts with the iPad maker that allowed them to raise prices, said University of Iowa's Hovenkamp.

An amazing fact: after years of strong growth in the overall economy, the typical middle - class family is on shakier ground right now than it was at the end of the devastating recession of the early 1980s.

Many of these credits were already on shaky ground, with ratings that were just above investment grade.

We get on shaky ground when anyone becomes dominant in a market of promises.