(a.) Feeble in the joints; imperfect; weak; shaky.
Example Sentences:
(1) Faced with the realities of Britain's rickety finances, chancellors and shadow chancellors of all parties have frequently turned parsimonious.
(2) The unrepentant immigration minister, James Brokenshire, was defending in public for the first time the decision taken by the home secretary, Theresa May, to refuse to support future search and rescue operations of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean in rickety unseaworthy boats.
(3) The Grade II-listed scenic railway, devastated by an arson attack in 2008, has been rebuilt, wooden slat by wooden slat, back to its rickety, grinding glory.
(4) My Year Off became my rickety bridge back to the everyday world, in which I was relearning a way of life, guided by Sarah's loving care.
(5) Every morning Mohammed Gurdan rises early and climbs the rickety ladder to the fourth floor of his home in Kashgar's old city.
(6) Take the train to Lisbon for custard tarts, rickety trams and the fantastic Oceanarium ( oceanario.pt ).
(7) They will face the task of assembling and keeping together a rickety alliance of their own.
(8) Sampson was “amazed by the apparent casualness” of the rickety offices in Tudor Street, which “seemed more like a family charity or an eccentric college than a commercial newspaper”.
(9) One of the legacies from those pop art days is her use of brightly coloured household paint, slapped on to bits of wood that are then built into rickety scaffolds.
(10) In the 1980s migrants used to slip through a rickety fence but now it felt like a steel fortress with control towers, cameras and sensors.
(11) Many experts fear that Britain has failed to rebalance its economy over recent years, with the current recovery based on the rickety framework of consumer spending and the housing recovery.
(12) Thousands of migrants have risked their lives in rough winter seas in the last week as they tried to reach Italy from Libya, among them reluctant travellers who were forced into rickety boats at gunpoint.
(13) A business meeting in Tunisia prevented them staying to see Pope Francis celebrate a mass on the island, devoted to the migrants who made the dangerous crossing to southern Europe from Libya in cheap inflatable motorboats and rickety fishing vessels.
(14) Even the most rickety-looking outfit will be doling out little bites of perfection: El Taco Yucateo , for instance, where we have panuchos as brightly coloured as a Keith Haring painting: yellow taco, chicken, bright pink cebollas curtidas (pickled onion), green avocado, earthy black beans.
(15) Rickety stairs lead up into black bordello-inspired corridors, while the romantic rooms are individually decorated with flea market furniture, swirling frescoes and erotic photos.
(16) They won’t care that we are Hazara.” Me, Salim*, Hassan and Ali, along with 75 other people, had been lost at sea for four days after our rickety boat’s engine had finally given way.
(17) "The studios are very old and rickety," said Johannah Dyer, the chief executive of independent production company Hotbed Media, which filmed Channel 4 gameshow Win My Wage in ITV's Leeds studios.
(18) And even if he is on song, can Uruguay's average midfield actually get him the ball and can their rickety defence keep England at bay?
(19) A place of 99¢ stores and cathedrals to caffeine; rickety taco stands and gourmet cheese shops; rundown 7-Elevens and pristine organic juice bars; car repair garages and craft stores.
(20) Five years later, in the municipal museum in Venice, Harrington summoned the rickety old lift.
Secure
Definition:
(a.) Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.
(a.) Overconfident; incautious; careless; -- in a bad sense.
(a.) Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; -- commonly with of; as, secure of a welcome.
(a.) Net exposed to danger; safe; -- applied to persons and things, and followed by against or from.
(v. t.) To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
(v. t.) To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; to insure; -- frequently with against or from, rarely with of; as, to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage.
(v. t.) To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping; as, to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship.
(v. t.) To get possession of; to make one's self secure of; to acquire certainly; as, to secure an estate.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
(2) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(3) Power urges the security council to "take the kind of credible, binding action warranted."
(4) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
(5) The so-called literati aren't insular – this from a woman who ran the security service – but we aren't going to apologise for what we believe in either.
(6) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
(7) The remaining grafts appeared to be incorporated securely, as determined by radiographic examination.
(8) But because current donor contributions are not sufficient to cover the thousands of schools in need of security, I will ask in the commons debate that the UK government allocates more.
(9) "Especially at a time when they are turning down voluntary requests and securing the positions of senior managers."
(10) Huhne increased the Lib Dems' majority to 3,864 in 2010, securing 24,966 compared with the Conservatives' 21,102, Labour's 5,153 and Ukip's 1,933.
(11) This is not for the most part revolutionary.” Trump has made some of his least ideological picks in the area of national security and foreign policy.
(12) Based on the results of the Community AIM Exploratory Action, further collaborative work is required at EEC level to create an Integrated Health Information Environment (IHE) allowing essentially for integration, modularity and security.
(13) Pyongyang also called the UN security council an "ugly product of American-led international pressure".
(14) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
(15) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
(16) The results indicate that the legislated increase in the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits beginning in the 21st century will have relatively small effects on the ages of retirement and benefit acceptance.
(17) We have reported on a simple and secure method of tying up hair during transplantation surgery for alopecia.
(18) Chapman and the other "illegals" – sleeper agents without diplomatic cover – seem to have done little to harm American national security.
(19) Many organisations choose not to affiliate their aid work with the UN, particularly in conflict situations, where the organisation is not always seen either as neutral or separate from the work of the UN security council.
(20) Van Rompuy and Ashton got their jobs at the same time as a result of the Lisbon treaty, which created the posts of president of the European council and high representative for foreign and security policy.