• But Mortlock swiftly ended any thoughts of a late comeback when he cut inside and bludgeoned his way through some flimsy tackling for a decisive try converted by Giteau.

    BBC: South Africa 15-27 Australia

  • Barcelona will credit the brilliance of Eto'o, but it was a cheap shot from United's viewpoint as the Cameroon striker was allowed to escape by Vidic and keeper Van der Sar's effort to block the effort at his near post was flimsy, to put it kindly.

    BBC: Barcelona 2-0 Man Utd

  • President Obama had never blatantly expressed support for allowance of same-sex marriages in the United States, leaving his position in a bit of a flimsy, wishy-washy grey area.

    FORBES: Same-Sex Couples and Your Statements

  • He started out as a rancher, asbestos miner, and prospector in the Pilbara, a vast sweltering wilderness in northwest Australia. (It is pronounced as two syllables: Pilbra.) In November, 1952, according to legend, he was flying in a flimsy little Auster aircraft with his wife, Hope, over the Hamersley Range, an extra-remote fastness in the Pilbara.

    NEWYORKER: The Miner��s Daughter

  • Flimsy plastic hurdles that now barely come up to his knees and two wooden benches, covered in dust but still sturdy.

    BBC: London calling for young hurdler Jehue Gordon

  • The dupes were light green and flimsy, the letters from that Gatling-gun typewriter of his black and distinct.

    CNN: Ebert's sheer love of life

  • But his excuses for this attempt to pull India's house down are flimsy.

    ECONOMIST: India��s old man in a hurry

  • If the basis of the so-called authorship controversy is so flimsy no respected scholar of Shakespeare or historian has ever doubted his authorship then why is it worth examining?

    FORBES: Bard En Garde: Jousting With The Doubters

  • If the basis of the so-called authorship controversy is so flimsy--no respected scholar of Shakespeare or historian has ever doubted his authorship--then why is it worth examining?

    FORBES: Book Review

  • Ayman Nour, a liberal who won 8% of votes cast, making him the closest challenger to Mr Mubarak in September's presidential elections, not only lost his parliamentary seat to a heavily funded NDP challenger but has been remanded in custody on a flimsy forgery charge.

    ECONOMIST: Not yet a democracy

  • But the formal structures that are asked to dramatize his ideas the scenes, characters, dialogue, and so on are generally flimsy and diagrammatic.

    NEWYORKER: Off the Map

  • Skipping over a flimsy challenge from Zat Knight, the Russian calmly balanced himself before tucking a low shot across Jaaskelainen for his third goal in 40 minutes of playing time since his late appearance at Wigan.

    BBC: Jermain Defoe and Roman Pavlyuchenko

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