Sentences with phrase «tenuous alliance»

The gods are dead, the sun has vanished, and the humans and Varl are maintaining a tenuous alliance in order to stave off the Dredge, the persistent enemy.

(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

Structured in six chapters with titles like «Wrath,» «Men Of God,» «The Holy Land,» and «Hell,» Valhalla Rising opens with Mikkelsen and the slave boy escaping their captors and forming a tenuous alliance with Christian warriors en route to Jerusalem.

He and Mystique form a tenuous alliance with the X-Men, but he continues to serve his own interests.

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

So this is a tenuous alliance, but for the time being it is an alliance.

But in order to survive, she and Peeta forge tenuous alliances with a handful of fierce warriors — and a handful of misfits — after Snow and Heavensbee create an arena that proves more dangerous than any of her potential foes.

Not exact matches

But if Cabrera somehow pulled out a win, it would inject yet another unstable element into the State Senate, where the loyalties and alliances that undergird power are tenuous already.