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a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
his proposal was nothing but a house of cards
a real estate bubble -
an unstable construction with playing cards
he built three levels of his cardcastle before it collapsed
How To Use house of cards In A Sentence
- This gives me hope for media bombast in general, that it can be scaled back without the whole house of cards collapsing.
- Alongside the urge to blow down the house of cards comes a tender impulse towards reconstruction.
- A better critique would be that the initial study was thin, spotty, limited in species and that a whole new house of cards studies in 90s, 00s is being built on it…so that we should do a re-examination, restudy of this foundational work. Supplementary Comments to NAS Panel « Climate Audit
- Well the house of cards is starting to fall finally. Anderson Independent Mail Stories
- Written by "House of Cards" author William D. Cohan, the piece calls for the creation of a mechanism in which the top 100 executives at Wall Street's major firms be liable "not just [for] their unexercised stock options or restricted stock, but every asset they have in their possession: from their cars to their fancy homes to their bulging bank accounts. Yvette Kantrow: Junk history
- John Monnier, another one of the team leaders, admits that he was skeptical about all this tilted-disk business; it just seemed like a house of cards. Discover Blogs
- his proposal was nothing but a house of cards
- Alongside the urge to blow down the house of cards comes a tender impulse towards reconstruction.
- This is the house of cards that is now collapsing. Home News Tribune - News
- Toeing the government line has allowed film-makers to avoid revealing the humanity of their subjects, lest a breath of truth threaten the house of cards that is the drug war.
