But if he is secure at home, Mr Putin is on shakier ground abroad.
Outlooks were a little shakier, but on the whole decent enough under the circumstances.
On all three of these tests Israel is on shakier ground than it cares to admit.
At the same time, a shakier economic outlook is adding to pressure to cut the welfare rolls.
Even if that is avoided, the short-term prospects for the world economy are shakier than many realise.
Hungary looks shakier than Poland, since it has smaller foreign-exchange reserves, more debt, and a tighter exchange-rate peg.
One thing is sure: the internet seems like a shakier place these days than it has in the past.
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From a distance, I saw him get older and shakier on his feet.
What is more, the dodges sold to individuals are likely to be shakier, on average, than those peddled to corporations.
Even the biggest firms, such as America's Electronic Arts and Japan's Square, are still shakier than most other media investments.
Randy Brown's screenplay is on shakier ground when it tries to get father and daughter to open up to each other.
But Matt is on shakier ground when it comes to fiscal policy.
Our subject, here, is literary evaluation, so of course everything I say is mere opinion, unverifiable and also unfalsifiable, which makes the ground shakier still.
His faith in market reform is considerably shakier than Mr Strauss-Kahn's.
Ingo Metzmacher of Hamburg is an unsurpassed interpreter of contemporary works, but his credentials in the classical repertoire are shakier than Mr Rattle's, let alone Mr Barenboim's.
And even financially stable CCRCs have drawn their residents' ire, sparking lawsuits in a few places, by using their capital to acquire other facilities on shakier footing.
Even the once creative luminary DDB seems to be on shakier grounds than ever, as InBev is tinkering with its stalwart Anheuser-Busch account and reaching out beyond DDB.
Beebe declined to say Wednesday whether he also would veto the Senate's proposed 12-week ban, but he said he thinks it's on even shakier legal ground than the House's 20-week version.
In fact, the three-legged stool that for decades Americans were told would prop them up financially in retirement--Social Security, company pension and savings--has given way to a shakier two-legged version, sans the company pension.
Fortunately for them Hull were even shakier and before the half-hour mark Torres doubled the lead, slipping on to a Benayoun slide-rule pass, nonchalantly rounding Ibrahima Sonko and Myhill before clipping into the net.
But medical technology has also pushed earlier and earlier the age at which a foetus becomes viable outside the womb, putting abortions even in the second three-month term of pregnancy on shakier moral ground.
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The upbeat news from abroad helped lift U.S. stocks as investors shook off the Empire State Index, a gauge of manufacturing in New York that came in at negative 7.7, indicating worsening conditions and a shakier outlook.
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Both leaders will have to spend the next few weeks convincing their domestic audiences that they have gained and not yielded to the other - a task perhaps a little easier for the recently re-elected Indian prime minister than for his Pakistani counterpart, who is politically on shakier ground.
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