Voorbeelden van quicksand

• Are there not lions and tigers and poisonous snakes and quicksand and other hazards?

• Building a recovery on leverage is like building your new home on quicksand.

• The cockles are in an area between two channels, one of them notorious for quicksands.

• They were never going to make any progress while running in quicksand.

• I cashed my check without guilt, but was mired in the quicksand of middle age and unfulfilled potential.

• Like stepping into quicksand, often walkers do not realize that a surface is slippery until they have already stepped onto it.

• It does include some eccentricities, most notable of which is a detailed set of instructions of how to get out of quicksand!

• You can only jump out of quicksands when there is a springboard which is sufficiently strong and resilient to enable you to make that leap.

• A road which is founded on the quicksands of illusion never yet led to victory.

• They are both quicksands, but there ought to be a point at which there is an acceptable solution to the dilemma.

• I see no future in repeating such discussions year after year when, in reality, the policy stands on a quicksand.

• Unless there are clear guidelines based on such a consensus, plans for rural development will sink beneath the quicksands of innumerable planning subcommittees.

• Any debate about increased defence co-operation must not be allowed to grind into the quicksand of an interminable wrangle about a possible institutional framework.

• He has liberated the entire national newspaper industry from the fetters imposed on it by the print unions and the quicksands of soft management.

• It is on quicksand as far as its arguments are concerned on this issue.

• The assumed return of a positive rate of interest cannot be justified in the quicksands of the present inflationary situation.

• Probably the idea is quite unrealisable but surely there must be quicksands round our shores.

• Just think of the quicksand on which you enter by that casuistical argument if you seek to justify the proposal.

• I am not prepared to see my livelihood sunk in political quicksands.

• We know that one nation cannot be built on inflationary quicksands.