Sentences with phrase «in tenuous»

Build - to - suit projects have served as the foundation for the firm throughout its history, but even that model is in a tenuous position right now because companies have pulled back on expansion plans to save capital.

Tip # 2 — Be Fearless: A conference can be quite intimidating, particularly if you are in the tenuous position of being relatively new, applying to graduate school, or on the job market.

Business life insurance protects both you and your partner (s) in those tenuous situations because this form of coverage will enable you to fund and fulfill the buy - sell agreement in the event of an untimely death of one of the partners.

If parents are in a tenuous relationship, they may choose to each create a Parenting Plan, then work with a mediator to create one compromised plan.

And as the blues or reds or blacks leap and quiver in their tenuous ambience or rise in austere thrusts to carry their power infinitely beyond the bounds of the limiting field, I move with them and find a resurrection from the moribund oppressions that held me only hours ago.)

The subtle shifting of color in the paintings is in tenuous contrast with the sensuous surfaces of paint; these are grittier and more anxious works, slippery beauty at once urbane and ethereal.

And as the blues or reds or blacks leap and quiver in their tenuous ambience or rise in austere thrusts to carry their power infinitely beyond the bounds of the limiting field, I move with them and find a resurrection from the moribund oppressions that held me only hours ago.

Between 1997 and 2002, Justine Kurland traveled across the United States photographing girls living vastly different lives, but all in the tenuous places between childhood and adulthood.

Casts of common objects, metal fragments and paper cutouts come together in tenuous arrangements that speak to repetition, daily routine, small moments, and the unexpected process of making.

She is interested in the tenuous space between the political and the spiritual.

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.

When my 15 year fixed - rate mortgage is paid off and your ARM has put you in a tenuous financial position, we'll see how good your math works in daily life.

The significance of reading is personified by two eighth - graders, functionally illiterate Travis and feisty, starved - for - affection Velveeta, who come together in a tenuous, prickly relationship.

What I've done, since 2001, is live in that tenuous non-place in which many expatriates exist.

I just knew that if I could get my clothes there then any awkwardness I was facing in those tenuous years would instantly fade away.

Glycine, the smallest of the 20 amino acids that build proteins, is floating in the tenuous atmosphere of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, researchers report online May 27 in...

Just above the surface, something strange happens in the tenuous outer layer known as the corona.

With actress Cynthia Nixon and other Democrats considering challenging Cuomo in a primary, the progressive Working Families Party finds itself in a tenuous position.

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

Veterans with the knowledge to manage their brakes, preserve tires and not put themselves in a tenuous position leading to being swept into the many accidents that occur on the Virginia half - mile track, hold a considerable advantage.

The president, Col. Moammar Gadhafi, retaliated against protesters with violent attacks, leading to an armed conflict that currently has Gadhafi on the run and the rebels in a tenuous control of Libya.

Can Christian love be divided into two kinds of love held together only in the tenuous bonds of paradox?

In a tenuous attempt to link this to the article, I guess this means RateSetter is having no trouble in acquiring lenders seeking interest rates higher than savings accounts.

At the time this Coin Index was compiled, ICOs were in a tenuous place.

A number of figures still in the administration are in tenuous spots.

Not exact matches

In August 2016, ISIS - K and the Taliban had reportedly forged a tenuous truce, promising to fight only the US - backed forces.

As one of a handful of female physicians in California at the turn of the 20th century, Peters occupied a tenuous role as a health authority.

On Tuesday of this week the country had settled into a tenuous calm, when police defending Government House — the Prime Minister's compound — opened the gates to anti-government protestors who spilled in and spent the afternoon, declaring «partial victory» and merry - making on the premier's lawn.

Still, she occupied a tenuous position in a society led by men.

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.

«From places like Geneva, there's a tenuous grasp on where the Yukon is in Canada, let alone where the Kaska is in the Yukon,» he says.

He believes a tenuous geopolitical situation could push prices to $ 1400 in a hurry.

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

The Times has exaggerated the importance of things like the Iowa caucuses and primaries in terms of giving the public false confidence they actually have a say in what is an increasingly tenuous democracy.

The role that big pharma plays in research, while valuable, is often tenuous, because profit models for many diseases are not always apparent, at least in the short term.

A decade after he moved from Nevada to Silicon Valley in search of his slice of the technology boom, Victor Barrera's tenuous toehold in one of...

John Kenneth Galbraith noted this phenomenon decades ago in his book The Great Crash 1929: «It was still necessary to reassure those who required some tie, however tenuous, to reality.

Xerox chose to settle with the activists after a judge last week temporarily blocked the Fujifilm transaction, siding with Mr. Deason in a lawsuit and saying the talks were conflicted by Mr. Jacobson's tenuous position.

For borrowers in more tenuous situations, work with a lender that offers an array of economic hardship deferment and forbearance options.

He said in the «tenuous» economy, industry needs to be recognized, something he said the Stelmach government has not done well.

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..

Sorry for bringing out the worst in you Sabio, but your grasp of Luther is very tenuous.

The fact that someone can profess to believe in something as insane as an invisible magic man in the sky in the first place tells me their grasp on reality is tenuous to begin with, and probably shouldn't be the sort of person to be trusted with the means to wipe out our species.

Moreover, the fact that there has been in the U.S. such a tenuous commitment to social provision to the indigent, independent of race, reinforces the ideological trap.

In Inventing American Religion: Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation's Faith, I deal extensively with the history of polling and the current difficulties polling firms face, including not only plummeting response rates but also the public's declining confidence in pollinIn Inventing American Religion: Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation's Faith, I deal extensively with the history of polling and the current difficulties polling firms face, including not only plummeting response rates but also the public's declining confidence in pollinin polling.

If we are to speak truly to our age, therefore, we can assume, not (1) the complete ignorance of Christian principles, such as existed in the decaying civilization of early Greece and Rome; (2) the thoroughgoing knowledge and acceptance of Christian principles, such as existed in the time of most of our grandparents; or (3) the vigorous antagonism to the gospel, such as now exists among those who accept either the Marxist or the Fascist interpretation of history; but (4) a vague and tenuous residuum of Christian piety, devoid of any intention of doing anything about it.

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?»

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.

Factors such as trade routes, the order of military encampment, property divisions, farming practices, building practices, economics and technology, and social stratification» not to mention a vast array of ritual processions and gatherings that might have only a tenuous connection to the type of conscious and coherent cosmology that Msgr. Mannion presupposes to have existed in these cultures» all coexisted with whichever form of religious devotion was particular to a given place and people.

Only through human vigilance can the tenuous equilibrium of freedom be maintained, and only in this way can the future willed by God be established in an indeterminate universe.