Sentences with word «tenuous»

Of course, this may create more tenuous relationships between SpaceX and its customers, which Dankberg acknowledged.

Mark Amerika's artworks move beyond the idea of conceptual collages to present a vision of the world that is made of undecipherable constructions, contradictions, multiplicities and vagueness: a world of tenuous connections that, by impeding a clear vision, leads the viewers into abuse and exploitation.

The continuity relationship between Marvel's television and film output in recent years can be described as tenuous at best.

More tenuous connections with commercial activity will not suffice.

This was Gigi Buffon in the 61st minute of Juventus's Champions League quarterfinal tie against Real Madrid on Wednesday: jubilant, nearly vindicated, and in tenuous control of his limbs.

------ On tenuous links... I'm hosting Sweet Adventures Blog Hop this month and with the hop starting on 17 March I simply had to make the theme St. Paddy's Day related.

There isn't one minority group that's meeting all of these benchmarks, and even middle - class families of color have a very tenuous hold on their economic status.

Still, these native Anglophones err if they overestimate their natural advantages, which will become increasingly tenuous as ever more millions diligently work to decipher our tongue, warns Montgomery, a multilingual geological scientist, scientific translator, and author of several books on scientific communication.

But nearly all my contemporaries at school gave up on church, and I had a very tenuous relationship with it.

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

Managers in tenuous positions may feel pressured to get up a full head of steam even with only two weeks of exhibition games.

Allusions to Bucephalus and Alexander the Great drag momentary mythical pretensions into the story, but the filmâ $ ™ s already tenuous grip on the boy's â $ œprimalâ $ relationship with the horse is dissipated by the loving but rather forced attempts to relive the horseracing romances of Old Hollywood.

For borrowers in more tenuous situations, work with a lender that offers an array of economic hardship deferment and forbearance options.

If you do manage to build a good - sized social circle online, you will have a lot more people who may refer you a client, even if each person is less likely to refer to you due to the more tenuous nature of your connection to them.

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.

The politics of the 2014 elections soured the already tenuous relationship between Senate Republicans and the de Blasio administration, which is fighting to preserve and make permanent mayoral control of city schools.

There's a murky, tenuous balance between reality and fiction... particularly when it involves a beautiful young woman, murder, a powerful politico, a missing fortune, and suicide.

Whether or not this will be possible, it is her art that will be her salvation, helping her to retain her identity, her dignity, and her increasingly tenuous hold on hope for the future.

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

Absorption systems allow researchers to investigate very tenuous gas clouds.

Wind and solar have several less popular relatives with more tenuous claims on the renewable energy family name.

The main character has an extremely tenuous link with the owner of Leblanc (a coffee and curry shop in Yongen), Sojiro Sakura, who takes him in for his one year probationary period.

Sybil would be among dangerous throngs of voters, and Tom would throw himself into tenuous schemes to upset the ranks of the upper class.

Only Daugaard and Vermont governor candidate Brian Dubie (R) look like favorites at this point, and that adjective is pretty tenuous for Dubie.

This one is the most complicated, and has the most tenuous line to Netanyahu.

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.

The connection may at first seem rather tenuous as there is little evidence that Alberto Giacometti and Yves Klein, who were nearly thirty years apart in age, ever interacted directly.

Casts of common objects, metal fragments and paper cutouts come together in tenuous arrangements that speak to repetition, daily routine, small moments, and the unexpected process of making.

Burdened by student loan payments, new grads can fall quickly into credit card and other debt, compounding already tenuous financial situations.

The remainder of the gas stays in a more tenuous form.

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.

Even if someone named Jesus with some sort of causal connection to the Jesus in the gospels existed, if you just blandly say that Jesus really existed, you sound like you are confirming the largely fictional being of the gospels rather than someone who stands oin some real but in many ways indirect, even tenuous relationship to this fictional character.

For archaeologists, Afghanistan is virtually off - limits for fieldwork, as Taliban forces battle the Kabul government in far - flung provinces and security remains tenuous even in the capital.

(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

There's always been a somewhat tenuous link between sexual appetites and our inherent craving for simple nourishment.

«It's a very tenuous time and anything can happen, but right now, Dean would step down as leader if he chose to do so, but that would only happen I think if the Republicans were united behind one leader,» said the consultant, OB Murray, on John Catsimatidis's radio show.

However, when the game begins, that tenuous peace has ended.

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

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!

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.

Putting 2005 in that category is a little bit tenuous.