Sentences with phrase «on a foundation of sand»

A castle built on a foundation of sand will crumble, while a tower with its foundation deep in the earth can withstand any number of challenges.

Settling for emotional or intuitive arguments is building one's case on a foundation of sand.

Koechner excels at playing blustering buffoons who build up their overconfidence on foundations of sand.

And thus, like the demoralized Biblical man who builds his home on a foundation of sand only to see it fall, any sense of agency our learners had [developed] disappeared as their expectations for the future collapsed.»

Much like Bernie Madoff's ponzi scheme, this scheme, with its constant infusions of material that could be libel / slander against skeptic climate scientists, was also doomed to fail from the start, built on a foundation of sand about its core «evidence» that was pushed by a person who never won a Pulitzer, and whose narratives don't line up right.

It is too bad that the professors of Kernan's generation, admirable as they were in so many respects, chose to build their literary castle on a foundation of sand, so that it could not hope to stand against the ideological storms.

the actual situation of which Dr Singer had zero association with, and which overall is an accusation built on a foundation of sand.

You can still go back and you can look on the Zillow blog and see posts that I wrote, and Stan, who by this point had become our chief economist, wrote about how it was obvious, in our opinion, that housing was going to crash and that it was built on the foundation of sand and there was too much easy credit that had allowed people to buy homes who really couldn't afford them.

The other built his on a foundation of sand.

The board gave Nassau, one of the nation's wealthiest counties, until Feb. 15 to come up with a financial plan that eliminated risky revenue initiatives, expense cuts and contingencies contained in this year's $ 2.6 billion budget, which NIFA member George Marlin had contended was «built on a foundation of sand.»

And I often worry about the tentative & fragile recovery we're hoping for / seeing in the developed economies (led obviously by the US), and whether it's built on a foundation of sand... or, more correctly, of printed money.

But the next question is, considering how Gelbspan's «evidence» supposedly proving industry executives paid skeptic climate scientists to be part of an orchestrated disinformation effort is actually an accusation built on a foundation of sand, how long will it take for the Casten campaign to erase Gelbspan's endorsement entirely?