Sentences with phrase «maintaining tenuous»

The gods are dead, the sun has vanished, and the humans and Varl are maintaining a tenuous alliance in order to stave off the Dredge, the persistent enemy.

When I think about the mechanics of running an organization, the delicacies of maintaining tenuous relationships, the banality of nurturing a bureaucracy, or the boredom of keeping an institution going, I just go NUTS!

The party maintains a tenuous hold on the state Senate, its last lever of power in Albany.

Now GOP officials, looking to maintain a tenuous majority in the state Senate, are hoping to unify the party leading up to the general election.

Sympathetic but not too sympathetic, her performance is all that allows the film to maintain its tenuous hold over its queasy tragicomedy.

Not exact matches

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.

There is an ecological / environmental message somewhere in there regarding the tenuous nature of nature, and how just the slightest imbalance, whether in our climate or our ability to maintain symbiotic order, can radically affect our physical and psychological wellbeing.

The Prestige shares a heart of darkness, after all, with that film: a belief that men are essentially callow opportunists and liars who will misuse the people in their lives in order to maintain an illusion of command, however tenuous, over entropy.

The fixed - cost rationale for maintaining MPS total revenues became more tenuous, as MPCP enrollments approached 6,000, larger than 95 percent of all school districts in Wisconsin.

I established order the first day and did whatever it took to maintain that tenuous state — including carrying a yardstick and losing my sense of humor altogether.

Connecting emissions overseas to stateside impacts is simply tenuous, he maintains, adding that the plaintiffs are being selective in choosing the most dire projections.

Under the Trump administration, that can be a very tenuous position to maintain.