Sentences with phrase «even tenuous»

That aside, we'll take any good news, even tenuous, as a good sign and hope for even better news to come.

However, the connection of the DNC hack to the gmail phishing campaign, as set out in the SecureWorks article, was very speculative, even tenuous.

Even if someone named Jesus with some sort of causal connection to the Jesus in the gospels existed, if you just blandly say that Jesus really existed, you sound like you are confirming the largely fictional being of the gospels rather than someone who stands oin some real but in many ways indirect, even tenuous relationship to this fictional character.

Not exact matches

It's tenuous ground even in the U.S., where it's generally accepted that the department store's future looks either posh like Nordstrom or cheap like Walmart.

Setting aside the enormous costs of the war (direct spending of over $ 700 billion on everything from construction, payouts to families of killed civilians to nonsense like designer goats and a $ 36 million unused command center), an even harder truth is this: There is nothing beyond the most tenuous of linkages between Afghanistan's security and governance and America's national security.

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.

Economic growth in Alberta remains positive, even when one accounts for every conceivable indirect outside force on the price of Canadian oil, no matter how tenuous the connection is: potential new Iranian supply, single - industry OPEC nations being forced to reduce output, Greece leaving the Eurozone, Donald Trump surging in the polls, Tom Brady facing suspension, etc..

Frail, tenuous, and temporary was man's hold even on existence — «Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?»

I can't imagine how you reached adulthood without achieving even the most tenuous grasp of the science that has long since explained away the need for - if not the very existence - of gods.

In the midst of the contradictions and the suffering of this present age, and given the «perpetual perishing» which carries away even the best of our tenuous arrangements, God is (again).

Even for those women who enthusiastically embrace marriage and motherhood... a substantial part of their lives is without a husband and / or children... Furthermore, the traditional message to women is tenuous at best — all it takes is a single tragic phone call for her to be dropped from that demographic.

Managers in tenuous positions may feel pressured to get up a full head of steam even with only two weeks of exhibition games.

Picture this, we don't come out of the gate firing on all cylinders, Wenger speaks of how there wasn't enough time for the first - teamers to build chemistry, several key players aren't even playing because of Wenger's utterly ridiculous policy regarding players who played in the Confed Cup or the under21s and the boo - birds have returned in full flight... if these things were to happen, which is quite possible considering the Groundhog Day mentality of this club, how long do you think it will take for Wenger to recant his earlier statements regarding Europa... I would suggest that it's these sorts of comments from Wenger which are often his undoing... why would any manager worth his weight in salt make such a definitive statement before the season has even started... why would any manager who fashions himself an educated man make such pronouncements before even knowing what his starting 11 will be come Friday, let alone on September 1st... why would any manager who has a tenuous relationship with a great many supporters offer up such a potentially contentious talking point considering how many times his own words have come back to bite him in the ass... I think he does this because he doesn't care what you or I think, in fact he's more than slightly infuriated by the very idea of having to answer to the likes of you and me... that might have been acceptable during his formative years in charge, when the fans were rewarded with an scintillating brand of football and success felt like a forgone conclusion, but this new Wenger led team barely resembles that team of ore... whereas in times past we relished a few words from our seemingly cerebral manager, in recent times those words have been replaced by a myriad of excuses, a plethora of infuriating stories about who he could have signed but didn't and what can only be construed as outright fabrications... it's kind of funny that when we want some answers, like during the whole contract debacle of last season, we can't get an intelligent word out of him, but when we just what him to show his managerial acumen through his actions, we can't seem to get him to shut - up... I beg you to prove me wrong Arsene

Any concept of competitiveness in today's game is as tenuous as if it were a bunch non-league postmen, plumbers and supermarket shelf - stackers turning up for a third round cup tie against illustrious top flight superstars; with not even the hint of a potential banana skin in sight.

Even if lawmakers redraw their own boundaries (which, given voter enrollment, will have to look pretty crazy in order to stack the deck for Republican senators), a presidential election year will makes their majority tenuous.

With Labour and the Lib Dems still not having the numbers even if they did team - up, the Lib - Lab option was far more tenuous than the Lib - Con option.

It's now clear tabloid journalists dispatched to Portugal to cover the disappearance of Madeleine McCann spent far too much time exaggerating the importance of even the most tenuous rumours.

During the interview, which will air at 8 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., Zimpher reiterated her support for Sen. Bill Stachowski, whom she has called one of the «champions» of the plan, even though he eventually ended his stand - off and voted in favor of the revenue bill based on the most tenuous of «framework» deals for SUNY empowerment.

Oh ok then, in a sentence: the analysis is excellent, the conclusions are highly plausible, even if based on tenuous evidence; the recommendations are too left wing even for cloud cuckoo land (or France, as I believe it's known).

In this day and age, there is probably no terror group that does not have some links somehow, even if tenuous, to some other organisation.

Even though astronomers assume that tenuous gas clouds account for a considerable fraction of the total mass of the Milky Way galaxy, very little is known about them.

Although the sequence of events connecting dark matter to dinosaurs, or even comets, is still pretty tenuous, it is intriguing because it brings together two big open questions: the identity of dark matter and whether there is a pattern to comet strikes on Earth.

For archaeologists, Afghanistan is virtually off - limits for fieldwork, as Taliban forces battle the Kabul government in far - flung provinces and security remains tenuous even in the capital.

Even scientists have grown bored with question of habitat loss, tweaking their grant proposals to emphasize the climate angle no matter how tenuous the connection.

But policymakers still express doubt that such measures are even necessary, given what they claim is a tenuous link between human activity and global warming.

Thanks to the nimble Leary, ever riveting as TV's most nuanced antihero (sorry, Tony Soprano), Tommy's tenuous struggle for sobriety is even more rewarding than last season's harrowing downfall.

This seems especially key to a license all about family cohesion, even if everybody might have a tenuous grasp on the use of their powers.

Even as she loses her admittedly tenuous grip on reality, giving into threats real or imagined, she remains a compelling figure of commiseration.

His themes are incredibly relevant to the dilemmas we face today: Should we confront the things that threaten us and try to defeat them, or should we retreat, sacrificing even truth if it is necessary to enjoy a precious, if tenuous, peace?

The private school choice sector is smaller and even more tenuous.

The fate of the negotiations, never certain, became even more tenuous after Rep. John Boehner (R - Ohio) announced his resignation as Speaker of the House, a sign of deepening fault lines within the Republican conference.

Sometimes districts make the mistake of saying, «Let's see if overhauling the HR department has an effect on student test scores,» when that link is tenuous at best, even using state - of - the - art statistical methods.

It's always fun to peruse the «net for spy shots and gather the little bits of information that leak out (even the ones that are officially announced are a pleasure) while a much - anticipated vehicle is in its concept stage, even if they're tenuous.

So many rides on the research proposal it's easy to forget its only the first part of the process, and the most tenuous because if you aren't convincing in your research proposal it may get rejected and you won't get any chance to even attempt it.

Even after adjusting for risk (if that is truly possible) the relationship between performance and ability is tenuous at best.

Titan's new series Dark Souls: Winter's Spite begins this coming Wednesday, and you can take a look at a preview of the first issue here... Beyond this tenuous fabric lies a place of banishment; a world within a world where the frigid nights endure and even the Old Lords fear to tread.

And now publishers and console manufacturers are trying to take away even that tenuous, delayed connection.

Its legacy is tenuous, ethereal even, and this makes it difficult to judge its place in gaming history.

Contrary to the claims, it seems less than five Horizon fans wrote negative reviews for Breath of the Wild, and the link (haha) is tenuous even among those.

Today, with the emergence of new forms of labour alienation and personal intrusion, deadening forces extend even further into subjective experience, making the divide between a critical and an aesthetic use of boredom ever more tenuous.

太平天國 / Taiping Tianguo, A History of Possible Encounters: Ai Weiwei, Frog King Kwok, Tehching Hsieh, and Martin Wong in New York is an attempt to think of actual and concrete, as well as tenuous or even possibly non-existing connections between the four artists who have crossed paths in the New York of the eighties, in what was the first decade of contemporary Chinese art and the prelude to the era of globalization in contemporary art.

The exhibition is an attempt to think of actual and concrete, as well as tenuous or even possibly non-existing connections between four artists who lived and worked in New York during the heady days of the 1980s and the early 1990s.

Rather than an illusory plane, it in such instances is the even more tenuous infinity of space surrounding each of these thin lines.

Running until 3 November 2013, Taiping Tianguo explores actual and concrete, as well as tenuous or even possibly non-existing connections between four artists in New York in the heady years of 1980s and the early 1990s.

Of course climate changes (by its very nature) but linking current trends to AGW appears very tenuous (even by your research) and bearing in mind the uncertainties and the media and political need for the correlation to stick, its very dangerous ground to attribute anything.

Such a tenuous working hypothesis needn't even be brought into the discussion.

But the entire notion hinges on the insinuation that scientists who had even the most tenuous financial tie to industry donations were corrupted — paid to lie in a manner no different than shill «experts» working for the tobacco industry who said smoking didn't cause lung cancer.

But even though that's the case, our transportation system is still 95 % dependent on petroleum — and the vast majority of that is imported over a long and tenuous supply chain that we all know too well can be subject to interference by people who would like to do harm to us.

Dana (sks) does the smear here (look at the photo): http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/jan/06/climate-change-climate-change-scepticism note this is the updated version after complaints, but even so it still misrepresents, LIndzen thinks the link between second hand smoking is tenuous, they still imply actual smoking..