Sentences with phrase «very tenuous»

There isn't one minority group that's meeting all of these benchmarks, and even middle - class families of color have a very tenuous hold on their economic status.

The link between finding that the common law does not protect spiritual connections to authority is very tenuous.

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

When the Human Rights Tribunal rendered its decision in favour of the plaintiff, on the basis of very tenuous «evidence», I was surprised and disappointed.

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.

A very dense gas may have the same temperature as a very tenuous gas of the same kind; and they have the same kinetic temperature T if and only if they have the same the same average molecular KE.

Solar correlation also appear to be very tenuous, at least as far as the longest temperature record is concerned http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/CET-SSN.htm However there is a good correlation with the oceans» currents distribution in both the North Atlantic http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/CET-NAP.htm and the Pacific ocean.

Anyway, the original ERBE data used by Lindzen - Choi was not corrected for decaying altitude (caused by the satellite orbiting through very tenuous atmosphere).

However, current reports still indicate that the situation at the site of Sweden's worst fire in 40 years remained very tenuous with concerns that a shift in the wind to the north might sweep the fire on into Norberg.

The downward spiral of food reserves has resulted in a very tenuous situation.

The guy is just telegraphing that he has some very tenuous and tendentious connections he is trying to make.

Of course climate changes (by its very nature) but linking current trends to AGW appears very tenuous (even by your research) and bearing in mind the uncertainties and the media and political need for the correlation to stick, its very dangerous ground to attribute anything.

In cases where I'm mediating a re-introduction between cats and the relationship is very tenuous, I recommend removing all catnip and catnip toys from the house.

Not long ago, very tenuous rumor had suggested the role might go to Rosamund Pike, but Pike has also been linked to the role of Moira McTaggert.

In the past, I have tended to err on the side of keeping too much in there, on the basis of a lot of very tenuous «what ifs».

Interplanetary space is defined by the solar wind, a continuous stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun that creates a very tenuous atmosphere (the heliosphere) for billions of miles into space.

«Roughly speaking, our galaxy looks like a pizza pie with an orange in the center — that's the galactic bulge — and then there is a very tenuous halo around the pie,» he explains.

That is, although the material in the corona is very hot, it is also very tenuous.

Absorption systems allow researchers to investigate very tenuous gas clouds.

It breaks my heart to pieces to think about people worrying about very tenuous and unfounded risks, when there are very real and all to common ones right there in front of them.

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

It's very tenuous.»

While their personal sincerity may remain intact, (11) organizationally this sincerity becomes very tenuous because of the overt money - making apparent in all of it.

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

But nearly all my contemporaries at school gave up on church, and I had a very tenuous relationship with it.

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.

Sorry for bringing out the worst in you Sabio, but your grasp of Luther is very tenuous.

And believing that one's Lord is a liar makes for a very tenuous relationship.

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

Saudi Arabia — the very tenuous king of OPEC — has stayed the course.

Not exact matches

Considering the possibility that maybe we're a rare civilization who made it past the Great Filter through a freak occurrence makes him feel even more conviction about SpaceX's mission: «If we are very rare, we better get to the multi-planet situation fast, because if civilization is tenuous, then we must do whatever we can to ensure that our already - weak probability of surviving is improved dramatically.»

I can't imagine how you reached adulthood without achieving even the most tenuous grasp of the science that has long since explained away the need for - if not the very existence - of gods.

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.»

The study also found that the very big congregations affiliated with a denomination tend to have tenuous ties at best to their national bodies.

«The very designation of martyrdom is a fragile and tenuous one, existing... between the twin extremes of suicide and victimhood.»

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

Even though astronomers assume that tenuous gas clouds account for a considerable fraction of the total mass of the Milky Way galaxy, very little is known about them.

«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.

«However, the tenuous outer atmosphere of the sun extends a long way beyond its visible surface, and it turns out the Earth would actually be orbiting within these very low density outer layers.»

«An analogy can be found by looking at Saturn, which has a tenuous but very large dust ring produced when meteoroids hit the outer moon called Phoebe,» Kalas said.

«Aurora [s] are very unlikely because (a) it's very unlikely there's a magnetic field to focus the charged particles into a small region of the atmosphere (necessary at other planets) and (b) the tenuous solar wind is likely deflected far [10s of Pluto radii] around Pluto,» Bagenal said in an email.

'' 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.»

Director John Crowley (Boy A, Intermission) does a very fine job with a good troupe of thespians, and while the film lacks a huge budget for large - scale action scenes, the more grounded developments definitely work in its favor in keeping a tenuous believability in what is mostly a story built on creative fantasy.

In very immature puppies and kittens, the problem is often severest during nursing when they can not concentrate on their tenuous (weak / difficult) respiration.

The Shin Megami Tensei franchise is very broad and encompasses many spin - offs that have only a tenuous connection to the main series.

One of the reasons I use frames in the way that I do - and I think it goes back to Romantic artists like Turner, who deliberately chose very sturdy, thick frames for some of his smallest, most evanescent pictures - has to do with my instinct that the more tenuous or fleeting the emotion you want to present the more its got to be protected from the world» (H. Hodgkin, quoted in M. Price, Howard Hodgkin: The Complete Paintings: Catalogue Raisonné, London 2006, p. 227) «I am a representational painter, but not a painter of appearances.

Since the very idea of a «psychedelic art» is tenuous, the exhibition does not propose a canonical presentation, but attempts to establish a series of artist experiments that relate to the many «plateaux» of the psychedelic, and its multiple histories as they unfolded in particular cultural contexts in Europe, Scandinavia, Latin America and Japan.

Without that information, the link to CO2 greenhouse warming is a very, very long jump to a tenuous conclusion.

Birkeland currents are interesting, although they seem to be a possible correction to direct solar irradiance only at the poles and only in the ionosphere, which is already enormously hot — between 1500C and 2500C — but so tenuous that you wouldn't feel heat if you stuck your arm out into the near vacuum of the ionosphere, you'd feel intense cooling as your blood started to boil and ordinary thermometers would radiate heat away faster than they would equilibrate (and hence would read very cold temperatures).

The supposed link between sunspots and global warming is so tenuous and has so many problems in its science, any effect sunspots have on our planet are likely to be very weak: