Sentences with phrase «on shaky foundations»

In commenting on Trial Lawyers here, I said that not only does the reasoning of the majority opinion in Trial Lawyers «rest on shaky foundations» whose weaknesses are brutally exposed by Justice Rothstein's dissent, but they «leave some important questions» — questions about the limits of the constitutional principles that it applies — «unanswered».

It also rests on shaky foundations, which Justice Rothstein's dissent exposes.

They also rest on shaky foundations, which Justice Rothstein's dissent exposes.

Though I do not wish to appear to be the ancient geezer on the front porch decrying the loss of the higher standards of the good old days, it is hard not to despair of an information system that is built on shaky foundations.

You should not build a multi billion industry on shaky foundations and I aplogise if this post has strayed too far from the scientific analysis you wanted.

We have some questionable «post modern» science built on shaky foundations that assumes we have a much greater knowledge of the historic record than we do, or assumes that the historic record - such as sea surface temperatures to 1850 - are a rock solid piece of science from which an edifice can be constructed.

From Booker's Groupthink essay:» «Because their belief is ultimately only subjective, resting on shaky foundations, they then defend it only by displaying an irrational, dismissive hostility towards anyone daring to question it.»

At NoTime2Chill Skills Academy, we don't waste time building on shaky foundations.

The church, like all other institutions of our society, has for 2000 years built its house of relationships between the sexes on a shaky foundation.

One can not hope to build a solid building on a shaky foundation.

Charters sport a well - regarded brand, but their popularity rests on a shaky foundation.

They were built on a shaky foundation, a single study out of Tennessee that was conducted in 1985.

Best call: Watsa and his investment team realized way back in 2003 that the U.S. housing boom was built on a shaky foundation of debt.

The Buy - and - Holders should have expressed great concern that their model might have been built on a shaky foundation and that they might be giving bad investing advice as a result.

Couple that with the inherent problems with computer models that the IPCC themselves acknowledge - but seem to be brushed aside - and the science is built on shakier foundations than many admit.

Not exact matches

As Russia's president attempts to reassert his nation's clout in Europe, he is doing so on an ever shakier economic foundation.

Donald Trump's election may have seen a broad rally in US equities, the dollar, and other assets, but the president's big plans are built on some very shaky economic foundations.

Now, if you want to take your favourite sin and insert it into the meaning, go ahead, but don't expect anybody to be fooled by your assertions and don't expect anybody to be convinced of your doctrine that you build on such a shaky foundation.

Also, it sort of invalidates your comment about feeling sorry for atheists when 1) you are also on this blog so you have about as much of a stake in this as any atheist here and 2) if agitating christian ranks only takes asking for proof and debating religion in a coherent matter, christian foundation must be pretty shaky indeed.

This is wrong for two reasons: We're all deserving of love exactly as we are and when we hide the things about ourselves we deem «undesirable,» we're building shaky relationships that eventually collapse due to the weak foundations they're built on.

Those who practice the growthing arts on such a shaky conceptual foundation run the risk of unwittingly using concepts and methods that work against one another and thus diminish the effectiveness of the process.

He doesn't believe in the phrase «build on a solid foundation» and the evidence is the shaky displays we see like last night.

Not publicly, though I'm told the governor has privately acknowledged the need for statutory changes, as his executive order will rest on a shaky legal foundation.

The NUS said widening participation must be made a priority and concluded: «With many of the key questions still unanswered, these statistics provide a shaky foundation on which to base arguments for further marketisation of the higher education system.»

So there's lots of effort to, I mean, we have a cyber security czar, we have a, but all of that is oriented towards, «Well, let's enforce the rules on top of this very shaky foundation we have built.»

Ofsted is concerned that a large proportion of 8 - to -11-year-olds have a shaky foundation in maths, leaving them in a weak position when they go on to secondary school.

Overall, this latest addition to the King Arthur filmography is at best mildly enjoyable schlock with some cool moments scattered about here and there, and at worst an inconsistent take on a classic character with an unpromisingly shaky foundation on which to build a film franchise.

And in a further twist, the issue might just expose the shaky legal foundations on which much of the early ebook industry rests.

This castle may look elaborate and multilayered, but the foundations it rests on are shaky.

Yesterday's reveal of Lord of the Rings Online's legendary item imbuing system struck me as a promising show of faith from the devs but nevertheless a truly terrible idea because they're just building a new house on top of a shaky foundation (LIs, not the game).

Shibboleth asks questions about the interaction of sculpture and space, about architecture and the values it enshrines, and about the shaky ideological foundations on which Western notions of modernity are built.

With this shaky foundation, it's disappointing but not surprising that Stern doesn't convincingly answer his own question: Why are we waiting on climate action?

But regardless of which messenger I chose to respond to, the idea rests on equally shaky foundations.

«The Clean Power plan was an unprecedented power grab by the previous administration that was built on a shaky legal foundation,» said Thomas Pyle, head of the American Energy Alliance, a fossil fuel - oriented free market advocacy group.

In fact, many of the things mentioned below are even more true now, and make the study an even shakier foundation on which to build responsible (or irresponsible) policy.

We also must remove from the atmosphere huge amounts of carbon dioxide that have already been emitted (see «Paris Climate Agreement Rests on Shaky Technological Foundations»).

Simply as an empirical matter, the quid pro quo premise seems to rest on some relatively shaky foundations.