Sentences with phrase «already tenuous»

For example, winds could influence where sea ice flows, potentially compacting what is left, or further breaking up already tenuous chunks.

«We definitely would question whether further attempts to physically diversify the English bulldog, for example, by rapidly introducing new, rare coat colors; making the body smaller and more compact; or adding further wrinkles in the coat; are going to improve the already tenuous genetic diversity of the breed,» Dr. Pedersen said.

We definitely would question whether further attempts to physically diversify the English bulldog, for example, by rapidly introducing new, rare coat colors; making the body smaller and more compact; or adding further wrinkles in the coat; are going to improve the already tenuous genetic diversity of the breed.

Exacerbates an already tenuous credit environment.

Few backers are enthused by the idea of giving more money to support company costs, and in one notable case, the direct request for corporate expenses to be covered by backers tanked an already tenuous campaign.

While their trippy misadventures with demons real and imagined test Toby's sanity, Javier's already tenuous grasp of reality dissolves altogether.

Part of the story unfolds in the 1960s through the early 70s, when The Beach Boys were a hit - making machine that Brian wanted to evolve into something radical and complex to the consternation of fellow band members, who were also family members, the disapproval of his emotionally and physically abusive father, and the stretching of his already tenuous grip on sanity.

Allusions to Bucephalus and Alexander the Great drag momentary mythical pretensions into the story, but the filmâ $ ™ s already tenuous grip on the boy's â $ œprimalâ $ relationship with the horse is dissipated by the loving but rather forced attempts to relive the horseracing romances of Old Hollywood.

The coalition governing the Senate, led by Skelos and Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein, was already tenuous.

My already tenuous grasp of reality was rapidly weakening.

«Companies assertively entering or expanding their presence in the milk processing business, have exacerbated an already tenuous situation in a highly competitive market,» the company continued.

But those who walked out were largely American and western diplomats whose relations with Iran were already tenuous.

Not exact matches

Especially in Germany, where gay rights already had a tenuous footing, they formed new organizations to advocate in public for their rights.

Considering the possibility that maybe we're a rare civilization who made it past the Great Filter through a freak occurrence makes him feel even more conviction about SpaceX's mission: «If we are very rare, we better get to the multi-planet situation fast, because if civilization is tenuous, then we must do whatever we can to ensure that our already - weak probability of surviving is improved dramatically.»

What makes such modest growth numbers even more troubling is the amount of stimulus that's already been used to create today's tenuous recovery.

But if Cabrera somehow pulled out a win, it would inject yet another unstable element into the State Senate, where the loyalties and alliances that undergird power are tenuous already.

So it is a fairly long plot description for what is essentially a road movie with the inevitable chainsaw getting revved up by the end but that is what this franchise has become — tenuous and contrived plot points to try and tie in to something that already exists.

His tenuous relationship with Lola feels one - sided from their first interaction, her requests already promising incompatible preferences between them.

These children live in 35 different countries and they are already out of school or at real risk of losing their tenuous hold on education.

Because the callers had this information — which often included Social Security or bank account numbers — and because many of the victims already were in a tenuous financial situation, they often believed that they owed the defendants the money, according to the FTC.

[14 — 17] Actually, Nico Dauphiné and Robert J. Cooper take its already - tenuous claims one step further, citing Hawkins» work (actually a 2004 conference paper that summarizes his dissertation [18]-RRB- as evidence that «the continuous predation pressure exerted by exotic predators in exponentially high densities can and has resulted in numerous local extinctions of continental land birds.»

If the heart has other defects or if the direction of blood flow reverses through the shunt (= rPDA)(ref) or if the infant's health is too tenuous or the heart damage already too extensive; the problem can only be managed through non-surgical means.

The repercussions to the market if artists had the right to impugn the authenticity of their works after the fact would turn the art economy topsy - turvy, destabilizing what many already judge to be a thinly traded, tenuous ecosystem to begin with.

Because of this tenuous and ongoing transition away from tradition, Cooper Union is already understandably the object of controversy and scrutiny from far and wide.

I did not want to get into equally tenuous suggestions that would distract for the facts of what we already have.

Birkeland currents are interesting, although they seem to be a possible correction to direct solar irradiance only at the poles and only in the ionosphere, which is already enormously hot — between 1500C and 2500C — but so tenuous that you wouldn't feel heat if you stuck your arm out into the near vacuum of the ionosphere, you'd feel intense cooling as your blood started to boil and ordinary thermometers would radiate heat away faster than they would equilibrate (and hence would read very cold temperatures).

We have already seen too many examples of the unreliability of such evidence, eg Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy, satanic abuse and shaken baby evidence can be extremely subjective and tenuous.