Sentences with phrase «tenuous time»

Press Secretary Sean Spicer's absence from the briefing room yesterday comes at a tenuous time, as Trump has asked senior advisers for weeks if he needs to change the face of his administration.

NAR will continue to press its two - pronged, high - low strategy during the tenuous times of a presidential election year to keep the business environment free of restrictive legislation and regulations.

Not exact matches

The Times has exaggerated the importance of things like the Iowa caucuses and primaries in terms of giving the public false confidence they actually have a say in what is an increasingly tenuous democracy.

At the time this Coin Index was compiled, ICOs were in a tenuous place.

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.

I would neither have liked nor disliked the abortion because before the development of sentiency there would have been no «I» at all, and for some time after the development of sentiency there would have been fetal «innocence» but only a tenuous selfhood at work (OOTM 103).17 Once again, an understanding of the theory of asymmetrical relations is what enables us to see that:

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

Picture this, we don't come out of the gate firing on all cylinders, Wenger speaks of how there wasn't enough time for the first - teamers to build chemistry, several key players aren't even playing because of Wenger's utterly ridiculous policy regarding players who played in the Confed Cup or the under21s and the boo - birds have returned in full flight... if these things were to happen, which is quite possible considering the Groundhog Day mentality of this club, how long do you think it will take for Wenger to recant his earlier statements regarding Europa... I would suggest that it's these sorts of comments from Wenger which are often his undoing... why would any manager worth his weight in salt make such a definitive statement before the season has even started... why would any manager who fashions himself an educated man make such pronouncements before even knowing what his starting 11 will be come Friday, let alone on September 1st... why would any manager who has a tenuous relationship with a great many supporters offer up such a potentially contentious talking point considering how many times his own words have come back to bite him in the ass... I think he does this because he doesn't care what you or I think, in fact he's more than slightly infuriated by the very idea of having to answer to the likes of you and me... that might have been acceptable during his formative years in charge, when the fans were rewarded with an scintillating brand of football and success felt like a forgone conclusion, but this new Wenger led team barely resembles that team of ore... whereas in times past we relished a few words from our seemingly cerebral manager, in recent times those words have been replaced by a myriad of excuses, a plethora of infuriating stories about who he could have signed but didn't and what can only be construed as outright fabrications... it's kind of funny that when we want some answers, like during the whole contract debacle of last season, we can't get an intelligent word out of him, but when we just what him to show his managerial acumen through his actions, we can't seem to get him to shut - up... I beg you to prove me wrong Arsene

And with the Twins dealing with a hamate injury to outfielder Byron Buxton, who has helped propel them to second - half relevance and the wild card spot they have a tenuous hold on, now is the time for the Angels to upgrade.

and that is oxytocin, which * CAN * calm a mother, and * CAN * strengthen a bond that it tenuous in stressful times.

The quote does not mention feeding method, yet natural childbirth advocates appear to have trouble bonding to babies unless they breastfeed them, and apparently, it takes them extra long to bond with their own babies since they insist that they must breastfeed them for extended lengths of time to strengthen the tenuous bond.

It's now clear tabloid journalists dispatched to Portugal to cover the disappearance of Madeleine McCann spent far too much time exaggerating the importance of even the most tenuous rumours.

«Most campaigns will shoot to have as many as three times the amount needed, given the tenuous veracity of street signatures.

«Prides, protection and parks: Africa's protected areas can support four times as many lions: Properly funded parks can conserve 83,000 lions, key to species» tenuous survival.»

From all these data, the scientists determined the cluster's mass: two quadrillion times the mass of our own sun, most of it dark matter and hot, tenuous gas.

This transient atmosphere is still extremely tenuous, with a maximum pressure at perihelion, when the comet is closest to the Sun, 100,000 times lower than on Earth.

The atmosphere of Pluto is tenuous, about a million times thinner than the atmosphere of Earth.

This was put together in 1974 as a theatrical release in honor of MGM's 50th anniversary, so it's really well put together and hosted by many of the stars who were there at the time (and some whose connection to MGM is tenuous at best — like Paramount's Bing Crosby).

It's also about the tenuous moment in time when sunny California, as the template for America at large, changed from the Summer of Love into something decidedly more sinister.

Franco, as Parker's tenuous buddy with daddy issues, smolders efficiently, and supporting players Harris (who gets, amazingly, in on the action) and J.K. Simmons (as cigar - chomping editor J. Jonah Jameson) shine yet brighter the second time around.

Linda Wertheimer talks to Joanna Kakissis and Peter Spiegel of The Financial Times about Greece's tenuous hold on the Euro.

The picture is compacted and truncated in such a way that the passage of time is hazy, the relationships between the major players is tenuous and built on stereotype, and the dialogue is the sort of stuff that plays like the awkward rip - off of The Man Who Would Be King that it is.

The whole thing looks and feels like an extended episode of some Starz series, and you almost get the sense that first - time feature film director Aleksander Bach is attempting to ape the Resident Evil movies, another franchise with bad writing, silly action and only the most tenuous connection to the video games that inspired it.

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.

Dymott uses a photographer's ability to alter and manipulate images through the developing process as a metaphor for the tenuous grip Ruthie has on sanity, although there are times when the author's poetic reach exceeds the novel's action.

But a tenuous friendship grows just in time for everyone to work together to survive a Category 5 hurricane.

Margot shifts through space - time as she grieves the loss of her grandfather, the heartbreak over a first love, and the tenuous relationships with her best friends, all while using quantum physics and scientific method to determine what triggers the wormholes and how to remain in real time.

With BlackBerry facing a tenuous and uncertain future, T - Mobile has decided it's time for a shift in strategy.

Some of the missions may feel tenuous at times or downright frustrating, but the story has a military feel, missions are challenging, and it works as a sniper game.

The Daily Fail Mail has published the results of a tenuous new study that purports to link (once again) violent games with violent behavior... but this time around, it's sports titles that have come under the pseudoscientific spotlight.

The breakdown and distortment of one's relfection is an eloquent metaphor and opens a provoking dialogue to the perhaps at times tenuous relationship in aerial cartography and photography between the categorization of the surfaces of objects and its true properties.

Martin Weinstein (NYC) creates paintings on 3 - 5 sheets of plexiglass layered together to form an image of illusionistic depth; he interprets this special theatre by depicting the same scene multiple times, and by inserting discontinuous elements... a reminder of the tenuous nature of reality itself.

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

LONDON, 12 May, 2017 — Just as one group of European scientists has defined the «so - called global warming hiatus» as an illusion, a second group has brought it back to tenuous reality — this time as a problem of definition.

The sharp difference a sign of Beijing's tenuous environmental situation, at a time when it's desperate to look good for an audience of billions.

That tends to scare the pants off a lot of our clients when we explain the very tenuous jurisdictional nexus that is at times necessary,» she said.

This time the photo is accompanied by the tenuous words «alleged image of supposed» handset — not inspiring us with confidence in his source.

While no one wants to be in career transition, it is a fact of life that this tenuous circumstance will likely be repeated several times.

«It's easier to empty them, bulldoze them, and rebuild to turn a profit,» he says after seeing this happen multiple times in Toronto's tenuous real estate market.

If the issue will take longer than 20 minutes or it's a client who is tenuous for being a repeat client, or I am in the middle of tight deadlines, I will estimate the amount of time it will take me, give the client an estimate and ask them if they still want me to proceed.