Sentences with phrase «tenuous state»

One way or the other, it's clear that, by the end of the 1990s, the veneer of ice on the Arctic Ocean had shifted to a far more tenuous state, with ever less thick, years - old ice like the floes I camped on when I went with the team setting up the annual North Pole Environmental Observatory.

Okay, we won't debate the generally tenuous state of my mental health.

I established order the first day and did whatever it took to maintain that tenuous state — including carrying a yardstick and losing my sense of humor altogether.

Subsequent protests labeled the «Blackout 505 Movement» led by Anwar Ibrahim drew hundreds of thousands of disgruntled voters to the streets, however the Malaysian government responded by persecuting and jailing numerous opposition activists, underscoring the tenuous state of political rights and civil liberties in the country.

Key factors contributing to this issue include the tenuous state of the Social Security system, greater use of defined - contribution pension plans by employers, longer lifespans, and the rise of depression and other mental health issues in older Americans.

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.

Not exact matches

The Senate also may modify other bills, including a college affordability package championed by Gov. Scott Walker, because of the state's tenuous fiscal situation.

Despite top terrorist groups» affiliation - sometimes tenuous - with al Qaeda, some do not fit the mold created by its former head, bin Laden, and current leader, Ayman al - Zawahri, said Benjamin, the former State Department counterterrorism coordinator.

The hopeful side of the picture is that the number of persons who are disturbed by this state of affairs, because they doubt if a vague and tenuous piety can sustain a civilization, is obviously growing.

Kansas State's hold on No. 2 is tenuous, with just.32 points per ballot separating the Wildcats from Oregon, but the top four — Notre Dame checks in at No. 4 — all earn more than 22.85 points per ballot, a suggestion that both a) the top four of undefeated teams is the best consensus grouping in college football right now and b) there is an extra ballot messing with the math.

The stability of the former slave state was tenuous at best while the gold - masked Sons of the Harpy murdered citizens and Unsullied alike, a situation that could worsen with Queen Daenerys skipping town (and escaping assassination) by taking flight on one of her dragons.

State Sen. Joseph Robach, a Democrat - turned - Republican, will not run for the congressional seat once held by late Rep. Louise Slaughter, saying he believes he can have the «greatest impact» if he stays put in the Senate, where his party holds a tenuous one - vote majority.

«It's tenuous at best right now — across the board,» he said, when asked if the GOP - controlled state Senate was on board.

Republicans control the State Senate but it's a tenuous hold.

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.

The Daily News reported on Monday that Miner, who has had a testy and tenuous relationship with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was striped of the post at the state Democratic Committee over the weekend.

In a sign of the tenuous nature of the state Senate Democratic peace deal, Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters he could forgo calling special elections, which would push off the replacement of departing Democratic Sens. Ruben Diaz Sr. and George Latimer until next November.

The party maintains a tenuous hold on the state Senate, its last lever of power in Albany.

The IDC - Republican power - sharing agreement again looked tenuous in November 2017, as more state and national figures began calling for the IDC members to rejoin the mainline Democrats.

However, DiNapoli warned that the state's budget situation remained tenuous.

Just how tenuous Ferguson's grip was became apparent in 2006 when he beat state Assemblywoman Linda Stender, 49 percent to 48 percent.

The miserable state of the economy is the prime culprit for Granholm's vulnerability, but the millions that likely Republican nominee Dick DeVos is willing to spend makes her situation all the more tenuous.

Now GOP officials, looking to maintain a tenuous majority in the state Senate, are hoping to unify the party leading up to the general election.

Jones» other source of hope, though tenuous, comes from a population of devils in the north - central part of the state, on the front lines of the cancer's steady westward march.

And the recent warm spell in the United States happens to be more than offset by cooling elsewhere in the world, so its link to «global» warming is weaker than tenuous.

But in basal breast cancer cells, ZEB1's state is more tenuous, with repressing and activating markers coexisting on the gene.

Corzine says the state should borrow the funds, despite a tenuous fiscal situation there, because it needs to attract top scientists.

The Michigan Supreme Court advised the Legislature that the «State School Aid Bill» allowing the purchase of education services from private schools violates neither the First Amendment nor the first of Michigan's Blaine Amendments (Article I, Section 4) because any support given to religious institutions is tenuous at best.

There have now been a few successful lawsuits brought to challenge various versions of these tests, with rulings centering on tenuous connections between the skills being tested and those necessary to do the job.120 To address some of these underlying concerns, the TeachNY Advisory Council, supported by a grant from the New York State Department of Education, drafted policy recommendations in May 2016 around teacher preparation recruitment, selection, and cultural competence in the hopes of finding ways to improve teacher quality and diversity.121

Sometimes districts make the mistake of saying, «Let's see if overhauling the HR department has an effect on student test scores,» when that link is tenuous at best, even using state - of - the - art statistical methods.

Although an important element of the state's application was buy - in from local teachers» unions, their support for the proposed reforms remains tenuous.

Other works featured in LIVESupport include «Church State,» a two - part sculpture comprised of ink - covered church pews mounted on wheels; «Ambulascope,» a downward facing telescope supported by a seven - foot tower of walking canes, which are marked with ink and adorned with Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) of the spinal column; «Riot Gates,» a series of large - scale X-Ray images of the human skull mounted on security gates and surrounded by a border of ink - covered shoe tips, objects often used by the artist as tenuous representation of the body; «Role Play Drawings» a series of found black and white cards from the 1960s used for teaching young children, which Ward has altered using ink to mark out the key elements and reshape the narrative, which leaves the viewer to interpret the remaining psychological tension; and «Father and Sons,» a video filmed at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network House of Justice, which comments on the anxiety and complex dialogue that African - American police officers are often faced with when dealing with young African - American teenagers.

Between 1997 and 2002, Justine Kurland traveled across the United States photographing girls living vastly different lives, but all in the tenuous places between childhood and adulthood.

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.

We use quasi-steady assumptions in engineering all the time, in circumstances with equally tenuous steady states.

And the recent warm spell in the United States happens to be more than offset by cooling elsewhere in the world, so its link to «global» warming is weaker than tenuous.

(The fact that nuclear disarmament disappeared as a political issue just at the moment that the bomb was acquired by Kazakhstan and the Ukraine - brand new states whose futures remain unpredictable — merely demonstrates how tenuous is the link between political reality and the rise of mass movements).

Nearly 1.4 million state electricity customers await a Colorado Public Utilities Commission (COPUC) decision on Xcel Energy's legally tenuous Colorado Energy Plan (CEP).

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.