Sentences with phrase «tenuous as»

I am sympathetic to Judge Straub's dissent but I can't agree that the facts are so tenuous as to fail reasonableness review, not in light of the position taken by the majority in the lines noted above.

The massive rhino relocation, which is set to cost around $ 7 million, offers hope for a species which has been ravaged by poaching — but the hope is tenuous as the practice continues throughout much of Africa.

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

The alleged link between anthropogenic CO2 emissions and global warming is now as tenuous as a snowball in the Sahara.

The connection between second - hand smoke in public places and public health is as weak and tenuous as the connection between emissions and warming.

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.

Saying the open world hurts the narrative is about as tenuous as you could get lol.

knowing that you have a mortgage to pay, a family to feed, health bills to pay... and your job security is becoming more and more tenuous as the overall business outlook dims?

Tenuous as in a butterfly in China caused an earthquake in California.

The references, tenuous as they may be, are all there: Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney) is Odysseus — called Ulysses by the Romans — trying with his companions (played by John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson) to return to his wife «Penny» (that is, Penelope, played by Holly Hunter) before she marries a suitor.

If it does, is the atmosphere thick like Earth's; as suffocating as Venus»; or, as tenuous as Mars»?»

The meeting is a key one: embattled Majority Leader Dean Skelos's hold on power is tenuous as he faces a half - dozen counts of federal corruption charges.

Any concept of competitiveness in today's game is as tenuous as if it were a bunch non-league postmen, plumbers and supermarket shelf - stackers turning up for a third round cup tie against illustrious top flight superstars; with not even the hint of a potential banana skin in sight.

Will he score goals for Chelsea, yes, a few against Arsenal, probably but his future at Stamford Bridge may be as tenuous as if he stayed @ the Emirates if Conte gets the ax following this season.

The link is rather tenuous as the quotation from Luke comes from the Zacchaeus story where in 19:9, Jesus, in announcing salvation, proclaims that «this man, too, is a son of Abraham.»

Is your faith / religion so tenuous as to be unable to bear the weight of a little inquiry?

Being the market leader can be very tenuous as buyers evaluate new emerging technologies and options.

Not exact matches

The idea of «millennials» as a monolith was always tenuous.

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Over the past five years, a posse of startups armed with cheap manpower and sophisticated software has been remaking the on - demand services market with an approach as disruptive as it is legally tenuous.

Summary: «Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son.

As of last week, the Market Climate for stocks was characterized by unusually unfavorable valuations, and market action so tenuous that it is indistinguishable from unfavorable action.

As of last week, the Market Climate for stocks was mixed - valuations remain unfavorable, technical action was mixed but tenuous, with various indices flirting with widely observed levels of support and resistance (e.g. the 1100 level on the S&P 500), while leading measures of economic activity remain decidedly unfavorable.

As Owen argues, the ascendant form of philosophical liberalism, with its tenuous claims to be a space without any religious commitments, is «not well equipped to confront a world of resurgent religion, particularly religion that is uneasy with or rejects liberal democratic principles.»

The fact that someone can profess to believe in something as insane as an invisible magic man in the sky in the first place tells me their grasp on reality is tenuous to begin with, and probably shouldn't be the sort of person to be trusted with the means to wipe out our species.

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

a career as an English professor must have looked like a pretty tenuous possibility for a young man named Meyer Abrams.

But many forget that those magnetic or photonic ons - and - offs are physical, just as the electromagnetic wave forms of analog broadcasting are physical, although it must be granted their physicality is tenuous relative to the colossal freight of meaning they incrementally embody.

This movie might be dissed as shamelessly sentimental psychobabble with a tenuous connection to reality.

Furthermore, claiming the bible as an absolute source of morality seems tenuous at best, e.g. passages commanding the slaughter of children and infants (1 Sam 15:3).

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.

If we are to speak truly to our age, therefore, we can assume, not (1) the complete ignorance of Christian principles, such as existed in the decaying civilization of early Greece and Rome; (2) the thoroughgoing knowledge and acceptance of Christian principles, such as existed in the time of most of our grandparents; or (3) the vigorous antagonism to the gospel, such as now exists among those who accept either the Marxist or the Fascist interpretation of history; but (4) a vague and tenuous residuum of Christian piety, devoid of any intention of doing anything about it.

Edward Scribner Ames was more cautious than Mathews about injecting so tenuous a metaphysical notion as «personality - producing activities» into the empirical discussion of religion.

Hence we make now the division between radical Islam and Muslim people who are normal, but the distinction is rather tenuous and thin, as Mohammed did and said some wild things, that they really should adhere to.

As a result, I was coerced into thinking, saying and doing things that provided me with some sort of tenuous guarantee that I wouldn't be left behind.

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.

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

The philosophical undermining led to the undermining of these goods in reality, as the norm - shaping authoritative institutions become tenuous with liberalism's advance.

My concern with myth has been motivated, in fact, by the realization that analogy as employed in metaphysics appears unable to hold back the floodwaters of rationalism, once the tenuous «appeal for an imaginative leap» gives way to a more definitive mood of logical analysis.

But clergy must engage in a more tenuous and ambiguous constructive task as well.

Furthermore, when an economic system dominates the policies of a nation, as in the present clash between Communism and the democracies of the West, the line between economics and politics becomes tenuous and at points indistinguishable.

It's as if people are not «all in» since they know that the relationship is so tenuous, because they know fragility on which the community is based.

When this type of reasoning is applied to a sacred text, one is placed in the awkward position of either affirming the whole thing or selectively denying it on very tenuous grounds, such as one's present world view.

«Avatars can develop to the point where the connections between identities is so stretched, so tenuous, that the «ping» of broken elastic can be heard in cyberspace, but the connection can be surprisingly strong, with collective refusals to think of avatars as distinct identities.»

Truly this work is tenuous, insofar as it depends a great deal upon both the findings of biblical scholars and a creative understanding of the tradition that it seeks to interpret.

It does appear, however, that in this passage we can discern a thin line, however tenuous, which links the Canaanite Baal myth of the «dying - and - rising god» with the rise of resurrection as an eschatological symbol, soon destined to develop rapidly in Jewish thought.

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.

I understand the story as a powerful metaphor for... the tenuous...

Describing it as tenuous speaks to your motivations and mindset, the anxiety of an OL - first advocate.

Tenuous isn't as important as need and impact.