Do we want to see once again a rickety generation of children?
There comes a time when a rickety structure has to be altered fundamentally if it is to be any use at all.
This time, they offer the prospect of success from an even more rickety machine.
We began to see the old machines—some of the rickety lathes, and machine tools with a lot too much play and tolerance—gradually being replaced.
But is he not propping up a rickety building?
It is not because they have children running around with little, rickety, wooden wheelbarrows or because of the exploitation of children.
Bringing in massive agrarian economies will make the rickety structure collapse unless it is thoroughly reformed.
I think his very timely speech last year perhaps had a slight effect on an already rather rickety structure.
