Sentences with phrase «slender thread»
The phrase "slender thread" is a way of describing a very thin and delicate connection or link between things. It can suggest that something important or significant hinges on this fragile connection. Full definition
Jackson LJ went on to describe paragraphs 3.2.2.2 (ii) and 3b.5.1 of the Technical Requirements as «too slender a thread upon which to hang a finding that MTH gave a warranty of 20 years life for the foundations».
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Elias LJ, with whom Lewison and Floyd LJJ agreed, said at [52] that s 23C: «[I] s an extremely slender thread on which to hang such extensive and burdensome duties... if Parliament had intended to confer a power of this scope, it would have done so expressly.»
Let me suggest that the slender thread connecting Trump to the church is his occasional holiday appearances at Marble Collegiate Church, made famous by its pastor for 52 years, Norman Vincent Peale.
Hanging our hopes for human reconciliation on such impermanent, spontaneous episodes of grace is to suspend a great deal, perhaps even the survival of life on earth, by a slender thread.
A slender thread of education runs through it, that word «college» paired with that other word, «faith,» somehow holding it all together.
Some classic film fans might balk at the idea of mentioning the upcoming Doctor Strange movie and William Cameron Menzies in the same paragraph but there are slender threads that connect the two thanks to Menzies's creative contributions to Chandu the Magician (1932) airing this evening at 9:45 PM EST / 6: 45 PST.