(n.) Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it.
Example Sentences:
(1) She says that, while she stayed away from the more difficult ramifications of that upbringing, she nevertheless plunged right into the "hot quicksand" of the Arab-Israeli conflict, right down into the Biblical roots of Jewish-Muslim conflict in the story of Abraham, Hagar, Isaac and Ishmael (which she meditates upon in the opera's Hagar chorus), and into the vortex of questions about Israel's right to exist and what motivates terrorists.
(2) If you think coalition was bad – backroom deals, cut-and-paste policymaking, good ideas lost in the quicksand between the two parties – then try the looser varieties of alliance.
(3) "Debt-to-GDP ratios are already eye-wateringly high, and this week's stunning capitulation in May industrial production data from Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands has raised fears that the so-called eurozone recovery has become stuck in quicksand, and without growth to erode the debt levels, the money that has flowed into Europe could well come flooding back out."
(4) Inequality meets unrealistic promises There are few places where the political landscape is turning to quicksand as quickly as McDowell, the poorest county in West Virginia.
(5) As the once proud defender of the people against the excesses of capitalism sank into the quicksand, financial storm clouds swiftly gathered overhead.
(6) It was like opening the book of Necronomicon or falling into quicksand."
(7) The FRC revealed that it had been monitoring Quindell since March 2014, a month before a US fund accused the company of being a “country club based on quicksand”.
(8) There has been a huge amount of discussion about whether the business model was valid and whether there was value in the business and this should put that to bed.” Quindell was thrown into turmoil almost a year ago when Gotham City Research, a US short-seller, published a report questioning the company’s revenues and profits, saying its business was “built on quicksand”.
(9) If we are homeowners, we worry that the home we own outright has a monetary value that is as solid as quicksand and that the future we thought was secure will turn out to have been a pipedream.
(10) So while the past week's figures suggest that the foundations for an eventual recovery may be starting to be laid, we are not out of the quicksand yet, let alone out of the woods."
(11) Government attempts to encourage or enact new rules in the wake of the Leveson inquiry have run into the same quicksands of definition, because they require the law to decide who or what is something called a " relevant publisher ".
(12) Looking through the self-interested anecdotes various protagonists are feeding to journalists in order to deepen this current crisis in order to force a resolution, understanding that in a leadership crisis everybody lies and everything is quicksand – the simple facts are Abbott’s leadership is on death watch because he has lost, comprehensively, in the court of public opinion.
(13) Many listeners of The Archers would argue that Helen is not ill, but drowning in toxic environmental quicksand.
(14) But when she chooses to turn it on, she has immense personal magnetism, which has enabled her to forge close and lasting relationships with designers, business moguls and other models – relationships that have done much to shield her from the quicksand into which many models' careers disappear.
(15) When Canada looks at Donald Trump, all we can see is Rob Ford | Matthew Hays Read more But for the rest of us, the last nine years have felt more like a standstill, a collective gang of non-Conservatives stuck in quicksand.
(16) The sensation is one of, having been sure of my path, stepping into quicksand and being slowly pulled under,” Oliver recalls.
(17) And despite the slight ease in activity contraction, economists caution that Britain is "not out of the quicksand yet".
(18) Why did the party allow itself to become stuck in this quicksand?
(19) He followed it with Hunky Dory (1972), a mix of wordy, elaborate songwriting ( The Bewlay Brothers or Quicksand ), crunchy rockers ( Queen Bitch ) and infectious pop songs ( Kooks ).
(20) Kicking the can down the road is still mostly better than kicking it into the quicksands.
Treacherous
Definition:
(a.) Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison was also made with cephalometric roentgenograms of a patient with Treacher Collins syndrome and of a patient with progeria.
(2) The clinical study of the major cranio-facial malformations such as Apert syndrome, Treacher-Collins syndrome, Blepharophimosis and Bilateral Cleft Palate patients, lead us to note a similarity of the orbito-palpebral region.
(3) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(4) They say an increasing number of “protracted refugees” living in centres in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq will attempt the treacherous journey to Europe because they cannot offer their families a life or a future in the camps.
(5) The thinktank added: “It will be interesting to watch next week how Mr Osborne navigates these treacherous waters and avoids the obstacles he constructed for himself.
(6) The power and versatility of these computer-imaging techniques are demonstrated by examining living subjects with major craniofacial dysmorphology (Treacher-Collins syndrome and unilateral coronal synostosis); an anthropoid osteological specimen (Gorilla); and a fossil mammal skull.
(7) Although the ferocity of the wind has eased, engineers have been struggling to restore electricity in conditions described as treacherous and worsening.
(8) May linked the situation in Calais directly to the refugee crisis in north Africa and the migrant boats risking the journey across the Mediterranean: “The government is clear that we must break the link between people making the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean and achieving settlement in Europe ,” she said.
(9) There was desperate resistance, as when Sol Campbell had to deal with a treacherous low ball from the substitute Dmitry Torbinsky.
(10) Viewed from the outside, Pakistan looms as the Fukushima of fundamentalism: a volatile, treacherous place filled with frothing Islamists and double-dealing generals, leaking plutonium-grade terrorist trouble.
(11) The investment banking division, which causes much of the controversy over bonuses at the end of the year, has had a torrid time but remained profitable and Hester said it had been operating in an "incredibly treacherous environment".
(12) In the low-risk setting, TB can be treacherous because misdiagnosis is likely.
(13) The Obama administration on Monday approved Shell’s plan to resume drilling for oil and gas in the treacherous and fragile waters off the coast of Alaska , three years after the Anglo-Dutch oil giant was forced to suspend operations following a series of potentially dangerous blunders.
(14) Linkage analysis between the D4S18, D4S23, and QDPR loci and Treacher Collins syndrome in eight families excluded the Treacher Collins syndrome locus from the region of the deletion.
(15) On the contrary, the rotation of the midfacial segment combined with mandibular lengthening for the correction of Treacher Collins has a strong tendency to relapse because of the backward pull of the soft tissues.
(16) Treacher Collins syndrome is a rare but well studied autosomal dominant craniofacial malformation syndrome.
(17) UAE halted Isis air attacks after pilot capture Read more But it was also a crude and menacing message to Jordanians, whose government was described as “treacherous and Zionist”, to stop fighting Isis.
(18) Heathrow airport cancelled half of its flights as the snow and cold weather continued to cause problems across the UK, stranding motorists and leaving roads icy and treacherous.
(19) The area above the last camp at South Col is nicknamed the "death zone" because of the steep icy slope, treacherous conditions and low oxygen level.
(20) The haemorrhagic accident preceding the onset of craniofacial microsomia is discussed as is the distinctly different phenomenon of disturbance to the migration or differentiation of neural crest cells in the pathogenesis of Treacher Collins syndrome.