Sentences with phrase «tenuous links»

Since the most egregious pollutants the EPA was created to address have long since been addressed the only way for the EPA to continue justifying it's existence is by declaring pollutants with more tenuous links to public health as «dangerous».

Speaking of tenuous links, there is a particular framing device used throughout the game where you are interrogated whenever you make a significant step forward in the plot or forge a bond with a new Confidant.

That said, as always, some links have much more tenuous links to your involvement in their lives and current issues than others.

Each story is linked only tenuously, emitting mere echoes in the others, but those tenuous links leave ominous gaps that are heavy with significance.

There are a handful of excellent scenes, but the screenplay comprises nothing more than tenuous links between the set pieces.

A spectacular Day of the Dead opening is followed up by a drawn out plot with tenuous links to Bonds gone by.

listen to «Podcast EXTRA — Easter» on Audioboo Sam Limbert is joined by James Bale to try and make tenuous links to Easter and football.

------ 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.

I believe he was simply using the death penalty as an illustrative example of a contentious public policy issue with a tenuous link to appropriations... the point being, to what degree does the Governor get to «make new law,» if you will, in budget bills?

The tenuous link between orgasm and intercourse in women has led other theorists, including Donald Symons, to conclude that the female climax is more accident than adaptation.

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.

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

'' This will be «Howard the Duck» for the 21st century,» promises the deranged screenwriter (Dennis Quaid) whose very crude sexual ravings provide a tenuous link between the brutally unfunny sketches that comprise «Movie 43.»

From there, the story begins, with the player character receiving a gift from someone in Silent Hill — a tenuous link at best.

As a result, charter school rates in 2018 and beyond will have a far more tenuous link to the actual per - pupil expenditures of the local district than they would had if the original formula had continued.

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.

Look beyond the title, a tenuous link to Hideo Kojima's universe, and the fact it uses Konami's wonderful looking FOX Engine, and Survive might as well be called «Survival Game # 637».

Tenuous linking of mundane plastic objects conjures up something both elegant and suggestively organic.

The tenuous link between CO2 greenhouse effects and the Earth's temperature indicates humanity has no effective manipulated variable to control temperature; the steady - state gain dT / dCO2 is almost zero.

The only connection between aircraft contrails and geoengineering is that both of them involve the atmosphere; that's a pretty tenuous link.

Perhaps such rulings on VAT would be more deserving of EU institutional support in the event of banking and fiscal harmonisation — not too tenuous a link I hope!

Given the tenuous link between manufacturing income or business income and the value of a special - purpose property in which the manufacturing occurs, taxpayers can — and should — object to the assessor's use of such income information to value the real property, even if it is a special purpose property.

Not exact matches

There's a link — albeit tenuous — between art sales and stock market performance, and at this point, the message seems to be clear: the hype cycle that's pushed up valuations for everything from hot technology startups like Uber and Snapchat to modernist paintings seems to be coming to an end.

Some commenters on Reddit have suggested the newest comments stem from a 2010 press release from a conservative lobbying group, but the wording there is different enough to make any link tenuous.

It is also a link between the Interior and the Lower Mainland, a connection that many here feel is tenuous.

In a tenuous attempt to link this to the article, I guess this means RateSetter is having no trouble in acquiring lenders seeking interest rates higher than savings accounts.

Our reproduction rate indicates that the link between procreation and marriage has become tenuous, and technology allows us to reproduce without having to bother very much with «the interdependence of men and women.»

But it is also possible to trace the links, however tenuous, which join them all together in a fascinating line of succession.

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.»

Though the link may sound tenuous, the point drawn from each was that where legitimacy flounders, the radicals rise.

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.

In a recent working paper for the Productivity Commission, Jacqueline Crowle and Erin Turner also agree that research suggests that the link between television viewing and childhood obesity is tenuous.

They have been studied to have great benefits and the link to causing serious disease is tenuous.

Tenuous football link being that she did of course, allegedly, have an affair with a certain Man United winger.

The player, of course, was Nuno, so the link isn't tenuous.

This one has the most tenuous Arsenal link in that the last line rings true.

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

The link between the chains he was sporting and the «links» he was hoping to advertise is tenuous at best.

All told, the choice to identify with ancestors from Scotland may well be linked to a clear — if sometimes slightly tenuous — ethnic identity, supported by traditions, symbols, art and a «club» of easily identified members around the world for many people (Carr and Landa 1983).

This suggests that the link between gun crime and gun ownership is more tenuous than knee - jerk reactions take for granted.

His links with David Irving were tenuous, he said.

How can the electorate trust a man who has links, no matter how tenuous or legal they may be, with Panamanian offshore accounts?

In this day and age, there is probably no terror group that does not have some links somehow, even if tenuous, to some other organisation.

Labour's union, council, public sector and, increasingly tenuous, business links act as a drag anchor on some of its more crackpot elements.

The link is «tenuous,» says Luciano Rossetti, director of the diabetes research center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City.

«The links between the organizations are tenuous,» says David Finnigan, an attorney with the Washington, D.C. - firm of Mayer Brown and an expert on the organizations.

The link between genes and the behaviors that humans exhibit is often tenuous and complex.

«The proposed link between A. sediba and early Homo is forced and tenuous at best,» asserts William L. Jungers of Stony Brook University, noting that alleged skeletal similarities are not very compelling.

Some physicists think the link between either researcher and the Higgs discovery is tenuous.

But many palaeobotanists argued that this link was much too tenuous to prove the identity of the plants that had produced the Ordovician spores.