Sentences with phrase «still tenuous»

So despite the growth in extent, the overall condition and resilience of the year - to - year ice pack is still tenuous.

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

The authors should be more circumspect in reporting their results, acknowledging that the stature estimates from modern humans are likely exaggerations, and focus their interpretations on the more appropriate (but still tenuous) australopithecine - based predictions — still with the caveat about the limitations of the data from which the predictor is derived.

While these are still tenuous first steps, mostly covert and minimal, the tide seems to be tuning.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty noted the world economic recovery is still tenuous but the American recovery appears solid.

Not exact matches

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

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

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.

This assumption rests on yet another, still more tenuous one: that uncooperative provinces like Saskatchewan and Manitoba are unwilling to commit to a national carbon price, not because of their own particular political interests and liabilities, but because they remain unconvinced that the national climate plan will actually succeed.

We still don't have enough evidence to warrant a fully defensive stance against market risk, though there is an increasingly tenuous quality to market action which I am watching closely.

A tenuous global culture is now emerging, though it is still embryonic.

In their least condensed parts (that is to say, in what they still contain of the vestiges of primordial chaos), the matter composing them is extremely tenuous; probably hydrogen, the most primitive substance known to us in the field of distinguishable matter.

A 10 - footer to save par or avoid a double is different for them, but it still looks tenuous.

The Rockets are still alive, and OKC will take a tenuous 3 - 2 series lead to Houston on Friday night for Game 6.

And better still, the link is very tenuous, and probably untrue.

The chances of congestion pricing being enacted this year are «tenuous at best» — but there's still a chance for a «phased in» plan, Cuomo said.

With Labour and the Lib Dems still not having the numbers even if they did team - up, the Lib - Lab option was far more tenuous than the Lib - Con option.

The chances of congestion pricing being enacted this year are «tenuous at best» — but there's still a chance for a «phased in» plan, Gov. Cuomo said Friday.

Giambra, of course, still has many local ties, but he has a tenuous relationship with the party.

The resulting bond is relatively weak, creating what Zwierlein calls a «fluffy» molecule that still vibrates quite a bit, as each atom is bonded over a long, tenuous connection.

This transient atmosphere is still extremely tenuous, with a maximum pressure at perihelion, when the comet is closest to the Sun, 100,000 times lower than on Earth.

Although the sequence of events connecting dark matter to dinosaurs, or even comets, is still pretty tenuous, it is intriguing because it brings together two big open questions: the identity of dark matter and whether there is a pattern to comet strikes on Earth.

The black - footed ferret still struggles to expand its tenuous foothold in the landscapes of the extant.

But policymakers still express doubt that such measures are even necessary, given what they claim is a tenuous link between human activity and global warming.

The Lone Ranger is over-long and overblown, but of course it is most damningly racist (see above, re: Depp's nose and makeup — with or without his tenuous claims to Native American ancestry, it's still offensive) and profoundly cynical about it all.

Whatever tenuous grasp on our attention it still manages to hold falls completely apart in a ridiculous gunfight sequence, and a final summation to the mystery, featuring over-the-top acting that sinks the entire film into the realm of the absurd.

These jobs and people still exist in the current climate, but their grip is more tenuous, and the ability to flit around in the sort of Kicking and Screaming phase has less resonance now than it did in the 90's or early 2000's.

Ben Stiller is the kind of actor whose default expression is around 5 on the face pain scale, and that tenuous middle ground between hurt and happiness is the bittersweet spot in which writer - director Mike White's masterfully handled seriocomic character study «Brad's Status» operates.

So, the most intriguing findings here are also still somewhat tenuous.

(Calif.) The powerful if not also tenuous alliance of school employees and district management have called on lawmakers to improve on Gov. Jerry Brown's education budget that would still leave per - student... Read More

Although my niece is the fourth generation in our family to be born into relative comfort, she is a black child; her connection to privilege can still feel too tenuous to risk.

-- and the two old men becoming the soil then, in their burial, as had her father, becoming as still and silent as stone, except for the worms that writhed now in their chests, and her own tenuous memories of them.

She similarly moves fluidly between moods and color palettes, so that each painting seems distinct and still retains a tenuous connection to her larger body of work.

By being immersed in the show, the viewer experiences a significantly tenuous and immanent nature, that codifies and replaces the quality of being non-exact of contemporary figurative painting, whether it is the portrait of a person, a still life, an architecture, or a mask.

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.

I think he still has a way to go (he has commented that the link between CO2 and global warming is «tenuous at best») but nobody is beyond redemption.

However, current reports still indicate that the situation at the site of Sweden's worst fire in 40 years remained very tenuous with concerns that a shift in the wind to the north might sweep the fire on into Norberg.

When policymakers are still being told by experts today that the connection is somewhere between weak and tenuous, that would be just misleading them on the science.

But even though that's the case, our transportation system is still 95 % dependent on petroleum — and the vast majority of that is imported over a long and tenuous supply chain that we all know too well can be subject to interference by people who would like to do harm to us.

Dana (sks) does the smear here (look at the photo): http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/jan/06/climate-change-climate-change-scepticism note this is the updated version after complaints, but even so it still misrepresents, LIndzen thinks the link between second hand smoking is tenuous, they still imply actual smoking..

Still, there are a few papers where the endorsement may be considered tenuous as an indication of the opinions of physical scientists.

But along with Google and Dropbox, they make up half a list of businesses thriving in our still - tenuous economy.

(ii) While judges must heed the exhortation not to yield to a tenuous or frivolous objections, one can with honour totally deny the complaint but still pass the case to a colleague.

Attempts to argue that the defence still exists apart from the presumption are laudable but they are tenuous.

While it's reported that the U.S. employment market is slowly improving, those who've been able to retain their jobs or find new jobs still feel rather tenuous.

If the issue will take longer than 20 minutes or it's a client who is tenuous for being a repeat client, or I am in the middle of tight deadlines, I will estimate the amount of time it will take me, give the client an estimate and ask them if they still want me to proceed.