Sentences with phrase «only tenuous»

-- climate skepticism is an ideological, not a scientific, position, and as such it bears only a tenuous relationship to scientific rules of evidence and inference.

While beautifully showing the longing and absence of modern romance, this work, like several others in White Matter (s), expresses only a tenuous connection to the exhibition's theme.

The Shin Megami Tensei franchise is very broad and encompasses many spin - offs that have only a tenuous connection to the main series.

As Winfrey's Mrs. Which monotonously spells out the motivations of the evil «IT,» a malicious intergalactic being responsible for all of the suffering in the world, only its tenuous connection to Meg's home life resonates.

The «real» events get refracted endlessly through millions of breathless watchers» experiences and start to take on meanings that have only a tenuous connection to the truth, whatever that may be.

Radical theology had only tenuous connections with secular theology, which was primarily a reformist species of the classical biblical theology of creation.

Can we hope to when we have received only tenuous expressions?

The White Man's Burden, in which the West is going to solve the problems of the Rest, has produced a huge world of interlocking and frequently self - serving bureaucracies that have only a tenuous relationship to helping poor people.

Much more than in earlier periods, many of the organizations through which the influence of Jesus made its way into society had only a tenuous connection with the churches or were entirely independent of them.

I would neither have liked nor disliked the abortion because before the development of sentiency there would have been no «I» at all, and for some time after the development of sentiency there would have been fetal «innocence» but only a tenuous selfhood at work (OOTM 103).17 Once again, an understanding of the theory of asymmetrical relations is what enables us to see that:

For American Christians, theology had been redefined as an academic discipline with only tenuous relations to their individual or ecclesiastical experience.

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.

Acceptable religion to them is religion that is non-God-centered and has only a tenuous connection at best with the supernatural.

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.

Leach's argument can only be sustained, however, if at least one of the following two tacit — and highly tenuous — assumptions turns out to be true.

As is the case with most Christians, you appear to have only the most tenuous grasp of what the bible actually says.

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 polling.

For if this plaint of the air, this tinting of the light, this communication of a soul were so tenuous and so fleeting it was only that they might penetrate the more deeply into my being, might pierce through to that final depth where all the faculties of man are so closely bound together as to become a single point.

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 univeOnly 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 univeonly in this way can the future willed by God be established in an indeterminate universe.

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

The connection was somewhat tenuous, it veered away from strictly «religious» issues, and only in the last chapter of the book did I venture a few comments suggesting a more «intrinsic» connection between the Christian view of human existence and the nature of human life manifest in Western literature.

One need only look into the seminaries to get a clear picture of the tenuous position of preaching.

You, of all people, should know that there are many many people out there with only the most tenuous grasp of the scientific method.

While military supremacy may discourage predator powers and military weakness encourage them, national influence suspended only on military advantage is tenuous at best.

Those who see religion in this privatistic way, naturally, view preaching as suspect or on tenuous ground when it speaks not only of personal conversion, faith development, and spiritual nurture, but also of political realities, economic arrangements, care of creation, and the like.

So to discover that the bumpy old airfield on a remote bit of moorland a few minutes drive from where I live not only had a motorsport history, but a (tenuous) Formula 1 history?

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

Stars would have appeared first where the clouds collided, in what became the dense center of the primordial galaxy, and only later in the more tenuous halo.

Of the six percent only around half could find a link, further emphasising how tenuous the relationship is.

The current atmosphere of Mars is tenuous, with a surface pressure only about 3 % of Earth's, and consisting mostly of carbon dioxide.

For example, mass - loss from stars like TX Cam is second only to supernova explosions as a contributor to the interstellar medium, the tenuous gas and dust between the stars from which new stars and planets are formed.

Pluto is the only known trans - Neptunian object known to possess a tenuous atmosphere.

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.

Some studies have shown that asparagus helps speed up liver function, although this research is tenuous and has only been done with animal models.

There's still a tenuous connection to a sense - making plot (but only realistically if you watched Season 1).

Sean and Beverly's romantic future is looking equally tenuous - and a visit to a sex therapist may only make things worse.

The Farrelly brothers» grasp of social embarrassment is strong enough that I was able to identify on some level with the Siamese twins — though on a level so tenuous only their sleight of mind made it possible.

It's only as the movie progresses into its palpably uneventful midsection that one's interest begins to wane, as McDonald, working from a script by McCabe - Lokos and Kelly Harms, has infused the proceedings with an increasingly episodic feel that slowly - but - surely wreaks havoc on the film's tenuous momentum.

Not only are they trying to appeal to the hardcore crowd, but they have a tenuous grasp on how to sound cool in English, and also because it worked so well for Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball.

The whole thing looks and feels like an extended episode of some Starz series, and you almost get the sense that first - time feature film director Aleksander Bach is attempting to ape the Resident Evil movies, another franchise with bad writing, silly action and only the most tenuous connection to the video games that inspired it.

Just four statewide voucher programs have been formally evaluated, and only one has shown any signs of success,» he writes, emphasizing that in no other field would policymakers move forward with such a tenuous understanding of potential impact.

Indeed, if you can only present it in one way, then your own mastery is likely to be tenuous.

One of the only overt visual links to taller F - Pace are XF Sportbrake's curved taillamps, and the tenuous connection is not a bad thing.

Each story is linked only tenuously, emitting mere echoes in the others, but those tenuous links leave ominous gaps that are heavy with significance.

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.

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.

What enjoyment there is to be derived from this entry only serves to remind the player of how much better it could be, and given the Vita's tenuous place in the market right now, that's a nightmare.

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.

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.)