Sentences with phrase «often tenuous»

While many unmarried parents live together when their children are born, their relationships are often tenuous and most end within a few years of the child's birth.

There is often a tenuous relationship between recruiters and job seekers, which is funny because they need each other to be successful.

Moving from sublet to studio share to Yaddo and other residencies over several years, Butler has incorporated the migrational spatial experience of a contemporary painter into shifting imagery, material, and process, reflecting the transient and often tenuous existence of artists in New York.

Dan Chaon's novel Await Your Reply was «a profound and haunting exploration of the shifting, often tenuous, nature of identity... a thrilling example of the best of contemporary literary fiction,» although he's probably best known for his story collections, like National Book Award finalist Among the Missing, in which he» [brought] clarity to the confusion of people's inner motives.»

Those of us who spend our days with young people know that teaching is an enormous interpersonal challenge and that student motivation and progress are often tenuous.

These connections are often tenuous, but constructive partnerships can offer the stable caregiving that children need.

The link between genes and the behaviors that humans exhibit is often tenuous and complex.

Sexual reproduction in the animal kingdom is often a tenuous alliance between male and female.

This is a given with most coaching staffs, but it is often a tenuous relationship.

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.

Not exact matches

But the thread between them can often seem tenuous.

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

Analysts started to outline a form a reasoning that is uniquely dangerous for the charity world - that, like the priesthood, aid work is a particularly tempting area for paedophiles, who could be dropped off in areas with tenuous state control, where children have often been isolated from their community or family.

There were snickers throughout the room at his comment, as Borelli and Ballard are known to have a tenuous relationship, and they often butt heads in public.

Predicting and monitoring cardiovascular disease is often expensive and tenuous, involving high - tech equipment and intrusive procedures.

These tenuous structures are also difficult to study from Earth, where the atmosphere often blurs our telescopes» vision.

When I analyzed the latest «meat will kill you» study, I wondered if some of the (tenuous and often insubstantial when you correct for unhealthy lifestyles, cooking temperature / method, processed meat intake, etc.) connections between meat intake and early mortality can be explained by our widespread tendency to only consume muscle meat and eschew organs, bones, skin, and gelatinous cuts.

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections — sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent — that happened after I was gone.

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.

In very immature puppies and kittens, the problem is often severest during nursing when they can not concentrate on their tenuous (weak / difficult) respiration.

Other works featured in LIVESupport include «Church State,» a two - part sculpture comprised of ink - covered church pews mounted on wheels; «Ambulascope,» a downward facing telescope supported by a seven - foot tower of walking canes, which are marked with ink and adorned with Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) of the spinal column; «Riot Gates,» a series of large - scale X-Ray images of the human skull mounted on security gates and surrounded by a border of ink - covered shoe tips, objects often used by the artist as tenuous representation of the body; «Role Play Drawings» a series of found black and white cards from the 1960s used for teaching young children, which Ward has altered using ink to mark out the key elements and reshape the narrative, which leaves the viewer to interpret the remaining psychological tension; and «Father and Sons,» a video filmed at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network House of Justice, which comments on the anxiety and complex dialogue that African - American police officers are often faced with when dealing with young African - American teenagers.

His criticisms reveal the tenuous truths of their original messages, asking his audience to consider the often unsavory consequences and legacies that lie in the shadows of our cultural mythologies.

Apparently Doig often works from found photographs, or film stills, though the relationship between his paintings and those found images feels like a tenuous one.

Applicants are often in financially - tenuous situations, have families and dependents to support and good reason to question where and when they will get their next paycheque.

For children of married parents, this involvement is often a given; for children of unmarried parents though, the father - child connection may be more tenuous.