Sentences with phrase «on weak foundations»

«Matt Ridley's climate science based on weak foundations,» The Carbon Brief, April 7, 2011.

If democratic legitimacy implies substantial popular endorsement, then the democratic mandate of recent British governments rests on weak foundations.

High levels of consumer debt leaves current levels of homebuying and construction resting on a weak foundation.

If we relegate the true ideals we may attain power on a weak foundation and never be able to manage the country in an atmosphere of true participatory governance, which is what our successes have always thrived on.

He was of the opinion that if the NDC relegates its true ideals «we may attain power on a weak foundation and never be able to manage the country in an atmosphere of true participatory governance, which is what our successes have always thrived on».

His entire «argument,» such as it was, rested on a weak foundation.

And until this basic weakness can be satisfactorily resolved, all the rest of AR4 (regarding model - derived climate sensitivity and projections of future climate trends, etc.) rests on a weak foundation and is highly questionable.

On a weak foundation, much less should be expected.

Not exact matches

But really, what are we saying about love and, more importantly, God if it rests on a foundation as weak and shallow as feelings?

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.

Build up... you would build on the weakest of foundations... the bible.

The fuel for this attack is provided by relativism, the weak foundation on which secularism is built.

the truth is that we did nt have a first 11 or squad to win in a weak league last year... so far chelsea and the manchester clubs have invested in big changes... and almost certainly for the better... spurs and leicester (if they keep konte and mahrez) can build on their foundation of last season..

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.

Concerned scientists, nutrition researchers and health professionals are now speaking out on the flawed analysis, the ignored research, and the weak foundation of the UDSA Guidelines and Food Pyramid.

If we don't concentrate on building a good foundation and a strong trunk or core, we'll end up tight in some places and weak in others, injury - prone and susceptible to the pitfalls of our occupation or chosen form of exercise.

However, having sex so early on results in unnecessary feelings to submerge and cloud peoples» level of judgment, resulting in uncertainty of character of their partners and weak foundations for partners to build their relationship upon.

The setting is asked to be the visual representation of the decay of father - son relationships stretching into eternity; the question of whether Cain's transgression is an indelible mark on the soul, passed from generation to generation, finds a weak foundation here in what is essentially a broad and laggard melodrama packed with unconvincing highs and unmoving lows.

Conclusions Children who entered first grade with the weakest knowledge of the alphabet, phonemic awareness, and other early literacy foundations were most likely to be on - grade - level readers at the end of first grade if they were in a reading group which had a structured phonics format until February and in which a «no nonsense» approach to discipline was taken.

Credible research begins with a solid foundation; a weak foundation — one plagued with unsubstantiated claims — on the other hand, leads to pseudoscience.

The politicization of climate constructed a very tall edifice on necessarily weak foundations.

tucci started out with an «inference» that had no basis on evidence, and went on to build his «argument» from that obviously weak foundation.

As such, the Court held that the respondent would be liable for the violation of the Technical Requirements, para 3.2.2.2 The Court concluded that, applying ordinary principles of contractual interpretation, the Technical Requirements are not too weak a basis on which to rest a contention that the respondent had a liability to warrant that the foundations would survive for twenty years or would be designed so as to achieve twenty years of lifetime.