Sentences with phrase «tenuous positions»

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

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

Xerox chose to settle with the activists after a judge last week temporarily blocked the Fujifilm transaction, siding with Mr. Deason in a lawsuit and saying the talks were conflicted by Mr. Jacobson's tenuous position.

And if the academy acknowledged that religious intolerance is systemic and involves abuse of power, then its leaders would also have to acknowledge their tenuous position in relationship to the First Amendment, which says that the government will not use its power to «establish religion.»

One need only look into the seminaries to get a clear picture of the tenuous position of preaching.

Being in an anonymous blog makes knowing who is out there a very tenuous position.

Veterans with the knowledge to manage their brakes, preserve tires and not put themselves in a tenuous position leading to being swept into the many accidents that occur on the Virginia half - mile track, hold a considerable advantage.

However, with (what has recently become) the biggest game of the season scheduled for next Saturday, manager Slaven Bilic will be anxious to deploy his resources prudently; would his tenuous position survive either a shock EFL cup exit (probably) or a home spanking by those neighbourly, north London itinerants (unlikely)?

If anything the spending underscores the tenuous position Grisanti is in.

Two relatively junior staff members escape for a late - night cigarette on the roof of their skyscraper with their boss after they discover the firm's tenuous position.

With actress Cynthia Nixon and other Democrats considering challenging Cuomo in a primary, the progressive Working Families Party finds itself in a tenuous position.

Ada is in a similarly tenuous position.

Some would argue that Hopkins» Hannibal Lecter is a focal point of the film, but that's a tenuous position to hold as the film really is about Clarice Starling and her attempts to catch Buffalo Bill.

Given Mitsubishi's tenuous position in the U.S., I'm thankful I've been able to experience the Evo several times during my tenure at Automobile.

Most relevant to our tenuous position is that it reminds us that art was one of the first to interpolate the subject in these problems through an immersive experience that we, as users of software, now find commonplace.

These riveting stories provide helpful insights into the tenuous position of the colonial judiciary and the precarious state of politics in a variety of British colonies.

Under the Trump administration, that can be a very tenuous position to maintain.

Tip # 2 — Be Fearless: A conference can be quite intimidating, particularly if you are in the tenuous position of being relatively new, applying to graduate school, or on the job market.

CORE claims to be standing behind the tenuous position of protecting privacy data.

Build - to - suit projects have served as the foundation for the firm throughout its history, but even that model is in a tenuous position right now because companies have pulled back on expansion plans to save capital.

Because the economy is so tenuous I position my portfolio as conservatively as possible.

Not exact matches

«The company's cash position is becoming more and more tenuous.»

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.

Chairman John Spark said given the company's tenuous economic position, the sale was the best option for unit holders and shareholders.

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has perhaps given a startling insight into how tenuous his current position is at the club by confirming that he won't be finishing his managerial career at Stamford Bridge.

Cohn's position with Trump has been tenuous since last summer, when Cohn rebuked the President over his comments about a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Meanwhile, Mr Fox's position looked increasingly tenuous after more reports emerged of his friendship with Adam Werritty, a former flatmate who came on 18 of his trips as defence secretary.

But according to the tenets of interest - based bargaining, focusing too much on objective criteria such as price, or salary in the case of faculty positions, can produce a tenuous agreement in which basic human needs — security, economic well - being, a sense of belonging, recognition, control over one's life — are not met.

In her dissertation, she investigates how emergent bilinguals in dual language immersion (DLI) classrooms perceive, enact, and negotiate the tenuous intersections of race / ethnicity, social class position, and language in American school settings.

A tenuous claim in 2014, that positioning is pretty darn on - target for 2017.

When my 15 year fixed - rate mortgage is paid off and your ARM has put you in a tenuous financial position, we'll see how good your math works in daily life.

There are a couple of reasons, including: The position of a contractor is usually more temporary and tenuous than a regular employee.

Knowing when to use these is important, because despite typically outnumbering the heroes by a huge amount the position of overlord feels surprisingly tenuous.

Since the Andy Warhol Museum's longtime director, Eric Shiner, left his position last year, the institution has undergone a somewhat tenuous changing of the guard.

-- climate skepticism is an ideological, not a scientific, position, and as such it bears only a tenuous relationship to scientific rules of evidence and inference.

The sceptic of the bogus variety cherry - picks evidence on the basis of a pre-existing belief, seizing on data, however tenuous, that supports his position, and yet declaring himself «sceptical» of any evidence, however compelling, that undermines it.»

That you bury it in a mountain of hand - waiving suggests that even you realize it's a tenuous basis on which to base your position.

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.