Sure tough times are ahead for Syria's economy (a pretty ramshackle affair at the best of times).

His house was a ramshackle affair that had started out as a hut, then had been added to over the years with whatever building materials were at hand.

It would be naive to mistake John Truck's half of that ramshackle, enduring affair for pity.

I don't know who owns it, but it's such a ramshackle affair that he can't object to having it knocked into kindling wood for him.

At that time the school was an underfunded, ramshackle affair, but it provided a relatively stable environment for blind children to learn and associate together.

It was a dusty, ramshackle affair from which he sold just about anything one could imagine.

But somehowthere is enough charm in the ramshackle affair to win you over.

The stockade itself was a ramshackle affair hastily constructed over the following days from timber and overturned carts.

The castle was a ramshackle affair.

Corner Hardware was a ramshackle affair that had been in existence for as long as I could remember.