(1) They are to be found in the 1689 bill of rights, in Blackstone, and in the work of more recent jurists such as AV Dicey.
(2) According to a PBS Frontline documentary last week, even the NSA’s top attorneys found the warrantless domestic surveillance regimen a dicey legal call, although they ultimately approved it.
(3) Sustainably speaking, taking a cruise is a pretty dicey proposition.
(4) Environmentally speaking, however, ocean travel can be a dicey proposition: every year, the industry consumes millions of tons of fuel and produces almost a billion tons of sewage.
(5) The dynamics of speaking at a convention are a little dicey.” Trump to meet with NRA over barring guns for those on terrorism watch lists Read more The NRA’s big campaign blitz has been partly fueled by an aggressive fundraising operation which in recent years has targeted mega-donors.
(6) The proposed move would leave the current company’s most valuable joint ventures in a separate holding company and split them from Yahoo’s dicey advertising businesses.
(7) Lean times in store for new Sainsbury's boss So, how dicey is the hospital pass about to be received by Mike Coupe, the Sainsbury's commercial director who will succeed Justin King as chief executive next month?
(8) Journalists who covered war and conflict over the past few decades can recall instances in which they talked their way out of dicey situations by arguing that if militants killed or kidnapped them there would be no one to tell their story.
(9) Three points from a dicey assignment at Southampton means a first title in 24 years is a fantasy with an increasing chance of becoming reality.
(10) Alan Greenspan has seen more than a few dicey days on global markets in his time.
(11) He had some very dicey moments, including a very close shave in Lebanon in 1983 when a knife was held to his throat, and resolved to find a less traumatic career before it was too late ("There are very few happy, old news cameramen").
(12) In contrast, the great jurist AV Dicey (1835-1922) had proposed that such votes were, in essence, conservative devices that enabled the voters to restrain the follies of the political class.
(13) When the producers of the Harry Potter franchise split Deathly Hallows down the middle in 2010 (that's 3.5 horcruxes a film, stats fans) it still felt like a dicey manoeuvre.
(14) Fear-mongers might say the neighbourhood is dicey, but Lavapiés is really a lively slice of authentic Madrid.
(15) But the rule of law is what Conservatives in particular were brought up to believe in: a bit of the imperial history ( Magna Carta , Blackstone , Dicey , etc) for which they display such enthusiasm.
(16) Prosecutors said DuPont was unwilling to sell its method to China, so it was stolen and sent to a company called Pangang Group Co Ltd, according to testimony during the diplomatically dicey proceedings.
(17) "It all looked rather dicey before it came out," he recalls.
(18) The referendum is the people’s veto,” Dicey declared.
(19) It’s been billed as a bit of a return to form for the actor, who has made some dicey choices of late, from The Expendables 3 and Paranoia to Cowboys & Aliens – but it still doesn’t match his all-time greatest performances.
(20) Pass that level and, climate scientists tell us, things get dicey: soils dry out, damaging food production.
Sketchy
Definition:
(a.) Containing only an outline or rough form; being in the manner of a sketch; incomplete.
Example Sentences:
(1) The details are a bit sketchy but I've just had it confirmed from Old Trafford that the people who were in Spain, apparently negotiating on their behalf for Ander Herrera, were not sent there by the club and can accurately be described as 'imposters'.
(2) I also think to some Republicans, even the word ‘association’ is slightly sketchy.” He then told the crowd that he was accepting the award “on behalf of psychopathic billionaires everywhere.
(3) The Jobseekers Act 1995 made this requirement explicit in relation to work schemes and it was on this basis that the court found that the sketchy 2011 regulations failed to pass muster.
(4) The details of what happened to Abdullah are sketchy.
(5) Concrete details on these “war zone” policy measures remain somewhat sketchy.
(6) "If somebody came to you, governor, with a plan that said, 'Here, I want to spend seven or eight trillion dollars, and we're going to pay for it, but we can't tell you until maybe after the election how we're going to do it,' you wouldn't have taken such a sketchy deal, and neither should you, the American people," Obama said.
(7) In the UK, the chairwoman of the House of Commons transport select committee, Louise Ellman, accused Toyota of issuing "sketchy" statements and questioned how long the manufacturer knew about the Priius problems before it went public.
(8) But he was sketchy about who would be pushed down the housing list, and about whether non-locals were currently at the top of the list, vaguely alluding to stories of families from Tower Hamlets being rehoused here (“I’m not sure whether that has actually happened or not”).
(9) Detailed follow-up information was often sketchy and unavailable.
(10) Whereas the information on the subject of arterial status is sketchy and haphazard with respect to any one genetic disorder, the number of these diseases would have precluded the provision of a critical review within the scope of this presentation.
(11) There were far too many fake news stories in 2016 from sketchy sites.
(12) Details of the deal were sketchy but Ashley’s group will have to pay Goldman if the share price falls, and will make a gain if they rise.
(13) I just don’t know … I also think to some Republicans, even the word ‘association’ is slightly sketchy.
(14) A sketchy agenda was released a few days before the conference began, along with a participant list, from which we can assume that the head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, will lead the chat about "How special is the relationship in intelligence sharing?"
(15) Lee addressed fans' concerns about the project's sketchy details on his Kickstarter page: "The reason I have not disclosed more info on the story is because: It's a THRILLER," he wrote.
(16) Cysts of the penis are rare and references to them in standard textbooks are sketchy.
(17) There is no city centre to speak of, just a collection of discount shops and fast-food outlets near the train station, and the sketchy bus service is more suited to a rural outpost than a city of 420,000.
(18) Most of the residents think the artworks should be returned to their rightful owners, though establishing who they are may take some time: many of the remaining records from galleries looted by the Nazis are sketchy and incomplete.
(19) A spokesman for the Department of Business has defended the sale price saying that their proposals were only "indicative valuations" based on only sketchy information already in the public domain.
(20) ‘I’m a bit sketchy on the memory,’ he says, with an apologetic smile.