be built on sand

In other words, this whole approach is built on sand.

So much of what he'd believed in had turned out to be built on sand.

The square is built on sand that was once a beach.

He seldom realized that his power was built on sand.

A horrifying fact becomes clear: Our lives are built on sand.

It is built on sand and its time is almost over.

It was built on sand between 1961 and 1964.

The first school house was built on Sand Hill in 1821.

But if it is built on sand it will soon fall.

"I learned that everything I had was built on sand," she said.

Unlikely to happen, as the whole shabang is built on sand.

"Our church leadership is built on sand," the group of seminarians wrote in their newspaper.

This is where comparisons with the Beach Boys are built on sand.

Thus, this new society is built on sand.

No tower can stand which is built on sand."

- was built on sand and has scarcely changed.

Any affirmative-action policy may now be built on sand.

Unfortunately the church was built on sand, and the steeple side started sinking into the ground.

To some eyes, this added considerable weight to the skeptical view that the whole modern theory of infinity is built on sand.

If this portion of the city is built on sand, then tunneling is more difficult.

The pleasantness of impersonal relationships is built on sand; and empty time never did me any good.

The Gold Coast, being built on sand and with many canal developments, could be considered particularly at risk.

We must learn the lesson that growth is built on sand if it comes from our predators and not our producers.

Diembéring was built on sand dunes, among palm trees and large kapok.

"All the things I believed in seem to have been built on sand, and the tide is washing it all away.