Sentences with phrase «shaky foundation of»

It will be up to the international community to see that the shaky foundation of the Paris Agreement and REDD + can actually make conservation a sustainable endeavor — by regulating the unchecked growth of bioenergy.

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.

'» Memory is a tricky, fickle thing, built as it is atop a shaky foundation of truth.

«The fact that those raises are built upon a very shaky foundation of improper and soon to be illegal raises, we'll find that out in nine days in court.

But his urge to prod the shaky foundations of liberal society remains, and The Commune is another delve into the dreams, drives and fears that lurk beneath middle - class life.

Teachers can not truly prepare their students for the future without meeting them at the shaky foundations of their present.

Screenwriter Roger L. Simon and filmmaker Lionel Chetwynd discuss what the Climategate scandal reveals about the shaky foundations of Al Gore's Oscar - winning «An Inconvenient Truth» and consider how the Academy might restore its reputation.

The global financial crisis, the fiscal cliff, and bank hacks all show the shaky foundations of government - issued currency.

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The foundations of your religion are shaky.

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.

This doctrine of «Pentecostal sanctification» not only has been shown to have shaky exegetical foundations but appears also to have been repudiated by Wesley.

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.

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.

The problem of course is that the foundations of the Gove - Cameron argument are shaky.

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.

However, dissenting scientists pointed out that increased consumption of vegetable oils and decreased consumption of saturated fats were, according to data supplied by the 1977 Goals themselves, associated with increased levels of heart disease.17 As a result of this shaky scientific foundation, significant scientific controversy continues about some of the original and current assertions upon which the DGA recommendations are built.

When Bill and Diane trek morosely through a field of reeds in search of their missing son, it feels like a borrowed reference rather than a natural outgrowth — all indie - flick house style atop the shakiest of foundations.

Deja Vu is the latest film to employ tampering with the past in order to secure a different outcome in the present, but by the time you realize that it is highly illogical as a film, you've already gained enough enjoyment out of the film from a thriller standpoint to forgive the shaky foundations in science fiction.

's visual world and the performances of its leads are so strong it can sometimes be easy to overlook how shaky the foundation upon which they are standing truly is.

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

The book details, and provides a systematic critique of, the shaky assumptions at the foundation of the market - based reform initiatives that dominate the contemporary education scene.

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

Consequently, Doc would run amok, and while his owners did their best to command and control him, the foundation of Doc's obedience was very 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.

We would never want to be in the boat of Carl Sagan who advocated nuclear winter scenarios despite knowing how shaky the foundations for the science were, because that is how his politics went.»

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.

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

That doesn't, however, mean that the laws of thermodynamics are an inaccurate representation of a partially understood truth, or that the foundations of statistical mechanics are particularly shaky.

«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.

That's a very shaky foundation upon which to build your house of card.

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.

And you highlight an issue many have raised, that being that the foundations of the IPCCs assertions are scandalously shaky.

Her main tactic seems to be throwing up layers upon layers of an increasing shaky edifice as quickly as possible hoping that no - one will notice that the foundations are collapsing as quickly as people can read.

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»).

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.

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».

Choosing the wrong home inspection company exposes you to the risk of buying a properly with termites, plumbing problems, or shaky foundation.