However, Ali Bongo's ties to Paris have been more tenuous.
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Sessions's position is even more tenuous with regard to Baltimore.
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Without Utah, Trump's shaky path to victory would become more tenuous.
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They are asking a more tenuous question: What will Trump accept?
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The situation for acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker is more tenuous.
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The pockets of life have become more tenuous with each visit.
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For those without a solid education, work will be more tenuous.
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The connection between you and your elected representative is getting more tenuous.
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The landscape has never been more tenuous for safe and legal abortion.
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Add a TV-addicted president and the situation becomes even more tenuous.
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For acting schools that pay rent, the situation is even more tenuous.
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The harsher Israel's security measures become the more tenuous his position will become.
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The kind of metaphor Christle seeks is at once truer and more tenuous.
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Finally, the way that wellness programs are run makes genetic privacy even more tenuous.
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United States, she feels her place in America has grown only more tenuous since
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Still, over the last two years, Pelosi's grasp on power has grown more tenuous.
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Price's travel on private jets, at taxpayers' expense, only made his job more tenuous.
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WeWork's public debut looks even more tenuous with CEO Adam Neumann's future in question.
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Evidence that it could enhance a man without any such issues is even more tenuous.
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It was always the character stuff that this series had a more tenuous grasp on.
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Rumours of Russian cash for nationalist parties in Italy, Greece and Hungary are more tenuous.
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So the connection between this concept and today's rental news was a bit more tenuous.
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Cuts to these positions will make WeWork's insistence that it's a tech company even more tenuous.
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There&aposs also no costing estimate for HAMMER yet, which makes the plans even more tenuous.
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Yet, it's irresistible, particularly in an era where the American promise feels more tenuous than ever.
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Because of that and Carolina's reputation, what was numerically a blowout felt a little more tenuous.
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And the evidence against Kavanaugh is more tenuous than in almost any other high-profile case.
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As Yemen's ongoing connectivity issues underscore, though, the fallback options for some regions are more tenuous.
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There is no more tenuous comfort than that which rests on the possibility of another's remorse.
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And that could make the bill's fate in the more narrowly divided Senate much more tenuous.
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Mara feels like a more tenuous pick than she should, but she's the beating heart of Carol.
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But the longer low inflation persists (here and around the world), the more tenuous that story becomes.
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But there are signs that Biden's support among black voters may be more tenuous than once thought.
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Most of the Lighthouse Winmore's 123 crewmen were Chinese, but other connections to China were more tenuous.
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IDC's latest stats suggest that both companies' market positions were far more tenuous than they may have seemed.
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And since that first debate, the Vermont senator's poll position has only grown more tenuous -- with Massachusetts Sen.
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Over the weekend, nature made the regime's future even more tenuous by removing one of its two pillars.
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And Mr. Trump's provocations are making the Republicans' control of the Senate, perhaps even the House, more tenuous.
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She's already on thin ice with many of her party members — and her position could get even more tenuous.
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It had never occurred to me that more distance, more barriers, more tenuous connections would lead to purer readings.
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Lawmakers will begin working out some of the more tenuous aspects of the funding bill as early as Tuesday.
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This was the other, more tenuous link between them: They had all been accused of committing blasphemy on the internet.
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The result is often less intimate, more casual friendships between men, making the connections more tenuous and harder to sustain.
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"[The demonstrations] show that Law and Justice's control over the country is more tenuous than they would like," he said.
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Mr. de Blasio's insistence on marching was made somewhat more tenuous after the May 22 terrorist bombing in Manchester, England.
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"It starts to get more tenuous, the wider the circle is for executive privilege," said a former senior administration official.
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Numbers don't lie As the death toll continues to mount, maintaining support for arguments detailing long-term solutions becomes more tenuous.
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Support for higher education is a bit more tenuous, with funding down nearly 15 percent in just the past five years.
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Last month, Iran breached the limits set by the 2015 agreement, making the future of the international pact even more tenuous.
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While Democrats could struggle to hold some of their more tenuous seats — like those won narrowly in 2018 by now-Reps.
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The idea that startup founders are infallible looks more tenuous amid tales of excess and bad judgement at some high-profile firms.
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But rather than applauding the move, those who have been incensed by more tenuous conflicts are seething that Pruitt is cracking down.
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In contrast, clients in their mid to late 40s who have saved twice that amount may find their plan much more tenuous.
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If Mr. Trump reneges on his predecessor's commitment, it could further fray a relationship that has become more tenuous since his election.
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To make matters more tenuous, global producers, subsidized by their own governments, were flooding the market, creating an unprecedented amount of oversupply.
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It takes the momentum that makes the hurricanrana remotely plausible and... replaces them with an even more tenuous grasp on your opponent's head?
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And it&aposs part of this pathological Mueller investigation that they can&apost let go of the more and more tenuous it become.
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While the ties to international terrorist cells are more tenuous in this case, it is clear that extremist beliefs played a crucial role.
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There's also more tenuous, or impossible love (the kind you go all in for anyway), like every song from A Star Is Born.
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Rosengren said he is worried that lower rates could put the economy on more tenuous ground by encouraging people and firms to borrow excessively.
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It will have an assured majority in the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, but its hold on the 320-member Senate is more tenuous.
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Their safety and future here feels more tenuous, and the messages they have heard throughout this election have in many cases revictimized and retraumatized them.
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With more tenuous times in the future,As the world grows more dire and dark,When it all gets too hard,There's always the bard.
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"As we enter a period where all of that has passed, the companies are stronger, the outlook for growth is a lot more tenuous," Odeluga added.
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But army soldiers reportedly protected and defended the protesters against some of these attacks, a sign that al-Bashir's hold on power was becoming more tenuous.
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And the promise of an economy that reliably generates jobs, living wages and retirement security seems arguably more tenuous than at any point in living memory.
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Out from there, the tiers contain more casual friends with whom you invest less time and tend to have a less profound and more tenuous connection.
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Tesla shares will fall dramatically the rest of this year because CEO Elon Musk's plan to go private is becoming more tenuous, J.P. Morgan said Monday.
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While some Cossacks trace their ancestry back to the paramilitary groups broken up by the Soviet Union after the Russian Civil War, others have more tenuous links.
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"As the economy has gotten faster and people's lives have become more tenuous, the speed at which people get paid starts to matter lot more," he said.
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Among these working-class individuals, one might think that Mr. Trump would do best with people with lower incomes and more tenuous connections to the job market.
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The irony is that by creating a new challenger in Arya, Dany's show of force might have backfired and made her control of the throne more tenuous.
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Although Trump still has confidence in Kelly, according to Sanders, the Porter debacle has clearly made the chief of staff's grip on his job far more tenuous.
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But as she begins to slip away, falling into a coma before being taken off life support, Dog's grip on reality becomes more tenuous in his grief.
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During more than four decades in power, Omar Bongo cultivated close relations with a succession of French presidents, but Ali Bongo's ties to Paris have been more tenuous.
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But that's because Gen Xers (which all of the kid characters on Stranger Things would be) had a much more tenuous relationship to world events than the boomers.
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The strong corporate earnings, coupled with the solid economic growth, has been enough to partially offset worries over global trade, particularly as U.S.-China relations become more tenuous.
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As an adult, the death of a childhood pet is a rite of passage, a tangible reminder that our connections to adolescence grow more tenuous with each passing year.
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The greatest threats to the global economy today are political The unprepared state of most economies means that co-operation is more important than ever, but also more tenuous.
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Kengeter's position became more tenuous earlier this week when a Frankfurt court ruled against a settlement that would have helped him and Deutsche Boerse put the case behind them.
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The China link seems more tenuous, but the country cut holdings of U.S. Treasuries to more than two-year lows in August as its trade war with Washington intensified.
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Amid naturally fitting examples, such as Jennifer Kent's The Babadook (2014) and Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014), there are much more tenuous ones.
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Young children have a much more tenuous grip on the passage of time and therefore, on the emotional impact that passage has on us — regrets, paths not taken, doors closing.
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At first blush, WeWork's connection to the future of technology appears more tenuous than, say, the British virtual reality start-up Improbable, which SoftBank poured $500 million into in May.
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The actor Lennie James is a maestro of anguish, giving it many shades and otherwise revealing on Sunday that Morgan's hold on his sanity is more tenuous than it seemed.
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These are livelihoods, traditions, entire social structures that are destroyed, and if they are replaced at all they are often replaced with something much less robust, less secure, and more tenuous.
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But the forts dotted across the barren hills are a reminder that security is more tenuous outside Miran Shah than the briefing given by the army in an underground bunker suggests.
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And although Klinsmann is confident, a poor result in the next qualifying game — at home against Honduras, with a trip to Panama scheduled days later — would make things even more tenuous.
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"For too long, Congress has allowed our armed forces to be used with ever more tenuous links to a vague and obsolete authorization of military force," Gallego said in a statement.
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That the basic reality is the US economy is in a strong position, that Chinese leaders' own position is more tenuous, and that Trump is simply an aggressive negotiator playing for advantage.
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High returns on equity capital may therefore be linked to a more tenuous status for workers and to a drop in the share of GDP which is paid out as labour income.
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Read: Trump: Black communities in worst shape 'ever, ever, ever Clinton's hold over Latinos was even more tenuous, despite Trump accusing undocumented immigrants of being criminal aliens and promising to deport them.
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This is not specifically a U.N. organization and ties to the U.N. are even more tenuous than those of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change that the Palestinians joined in 2016.
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Knowing these basics seems like a given, but the research on confabulation shows it is not, and further, that our grasp on reality may be more tenuous than we'd like to believe.
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Life at the low end of the income scale has grown more tenuous: the inflation-adjusted income of households headed by a non-college graduate fell by 19% between 1999 and 2014.
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Hagedorn suggested the main reason procurement sees advertising agencies positively is that desperate agencies are increasingly willing to work for less — even if it makes their own long-term profitability more tenuous.
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As the show progressed and she developed more familial and lasting connections with other characters, her complete rejection of all things "good", both magical and non-magical became more tenuous over time.
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Shareholders may have been blinded by Facebook's dizzying growth over the past few years, but we now know that the edifice of that growth is far more tenuous than we ever knew before.
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With its statement, Hamas is trying to offer a more mainstream-friendly version of its vision for the Palestinian cause, and to gain ground against Mr. Abbas, whose influence is growing more tenuous.
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That might be the most likely outcome of all of this — that North and South Korea move closer together and the U.S.-Korean alliance becomes more tenuous, and nothing changes on the nuclear side.
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But that lead became more tenuous when the FBI announced just 11 days before the election that it was probing new evidence regarding her use of a private email server while secretary of state.
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Many others, like nearly all of nonmetropolitan Iowa, have very low unemployment rates and a much leaner and more tenuous pool of potential workers from which to draw for the jobs that go wanting.
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And the economic case for recycling plastic is getting more tenuous, as it's cheaper to make plastic from freshly pumped oil than it is to recycle plastic, given the current low price of crude.
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As our claims to postwar enlightenment or exceptionalism grow more tenuous by the day, Gironcoli offers a reverse angle shot conflating a past he knew too well with a future he wouldn't live to see.
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He annoys me this season so I loved it, but it's of course becoming clear that Clarke has lost control of the situation and that her justification for the lie is getting more and more tenuous.
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The record is still composed of strung together moments of fragile beauty, but there's something a little more tenuous about it, a sense that if you lean on it too hard it'll all come crumbling down.
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Building a robust mobile game that meets console/PC gamers expectations has been one of the more tenuous pursuits of the past decade, and one that has more often than not led to watered-down experiences.
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Pro-Europe activists were despairing, some channeling their anger into efforts to help Europeans in London navigate the reality of reduced rights and a more tenuous life in a country they had long made their home.
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The ANZ vacancies series is closely watched by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) given it counts actual job ads, while Australian Bureau of Statistics data is based on more tenuous intentions by firms to hire.
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And while the US commitment to South Korea may, after a series of tweets from Trump, be more tenuous than it has been in years, the military alliance between the United States and South Korea remains strong.
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Still, a fragile partnership already on tenterhooks will now grow ever more tenuous, especially because cutting aid to the Pakistanis is unlikely to compel them to crack down on the terrorists that target American troops in Afghanistan.
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My father, on the other hand, begrudgingly used a walker for the last years of his life, as his balance became more and more tenuous and his legs progressively weakened from normal pressure hydrocephalus and spinal stenosis.
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These policy changes place Sci-Hub on a more tenuous footing in the US. But if America's access were further restricted, it would be a blow to the site, and to many of the "capitalists" that use it.
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After five seasons as Dallas's undisputed starter, Lehtonen feared his hold on the job had become more tenuous with the arrival of a goaltender who had a Stanley Cup title and two conference finals appearances on his résumé.
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With the wealth of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connected accessories available today, the argument for modularity is more tenuous than ever before, and without that advantage, there isn't really anything the Z2 Force can do better than its competition.
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The real risk is the opposite, that too many of Pelosi's freshman members — often, by their nature, holding more tenuous seats — will feel pressure to say they came to Washington and got something done by making a cheap sale.
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A connection with pregnancy and childbirth seems more tenuous, and is sometimes too far a stretch, but Ms Runcie sets the theme early: the sea is "a gradual process of becoming, of widening and ageing and growing into more".
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Their recent arrival provided researchers an opportunity to study the animals with the goal of better understanding how to prevent human-bear conflicts — not just for black bears, but also for bears like grizzlies whose numbers are more tenuous.
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Though he styles himself a political risk-taker, the mayor is only taking the plunge after Sanders emerged victorious from the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, rather than when the Vermont senator's chances seemed more tenuous last year.
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Control of the House is decided by swing districts, the ones that lean only narrowly toward Democrats or Republicans, and the GOP's grip on power is more tenuous than the numbers — 238 to 193 — might lead you to believe.
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What was once a two-game division lead has turned into a nine-game deficit, and with the irrepressible surge of the Athletics out west, even the Yankees' hold on the first wild-card spot has become a little more tenuous.
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Read: Trump: Black communities in worst shape 'ever, ever, ever Clinton's support among Latinos was even more tenuous, despite Trump pledging to build a wall on the Mexican border, accusing undocumented immigrants of being criminal aliens and promising to deport them.
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Pray, then, for frontwoman Emily Haines, who we can only assume will have to spend the next few weeks looking for ever-more tenuous excuses to walk away from Billy Corgan while he rants about maybe having sex with a ghost.
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Lots of research attests to these more tenuous connections, including Dr. Yahirun's 2013 study showing that stepchildren and stepmothers are less likely to live with or near each other than biological mothers and children, and less likely to move closer.
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With greater federal funding, the report said, researchers could focus more on basic research — more tenuous, potentially less immediately applicable areas of A.I. — and through the grant-making process, the government would have a greater say in how the technology develops.
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American officials say these actions by Russian personnel and their Syrian allies are devised to present a constant set of challenges, probes and encroachments to slowly create new facts on the ground and make the U.S. military presence there more tenuous.
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In a year when a man whose own party calls him a fascist is squarely leading the Republican primaries and a self-declared democratic socialist is leading an unexpectedly robust insurgency on the Democratic side, Fukuyama's argument is looking more and more tenuous.
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The Chao Lay's right to the sea is even more tenuous as they often lack permits and licenses for fishing, and get arrested or fined for straying into newly established marine protected areas or island parks that authorities say are key to conservation.
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"It's not just symbolic — we really can't afford to lose any seats at this point," said Representative Tom Rooney, Republican of Florida, noting that "the factions" among congressional Republicans make their majorities more tenuous in practice than they may seem on paper.
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Some candidates have more maneuvering room than others to challenge the two leaders: Whereas Mr. Buttigieg and Mr. Sanders are flush with cash, Ms. Klobuchar is in a far more tenuous financial position and has yet to qualify for the debate in November.
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While Turkey is a NATO member and is slated to buy F-35s, its relationship with America and the West has become more tenuous and tense, and Turkey needs its own weapons to guarantee its security as it drifts closer to Russia.
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The character of Howard Beale — who is transformed into a populist sensation after he threatens to commit suicide on live television, and whose audience grows bigger and more fervent as his grasp on reality becomes more tenuous — remains his most famous creation.
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The ICBA worries that allowing technology companies like SoFi (which recently lost its CEO to a sexual harassment scandal) into the banking system through an ILC would encourage massive companies with a more tenuous relationship with banking to own banks — like Amazon, Alphabet, or Walmart.
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At a time when Disney can insistently bill an almost entirely computer-generated Africa as "live action," as deepfakes become increasingly elaborate, as Ang Lee's Gemini Man pairs Will Smith with his 20s-era self, the integrity of images has become more tenuous than ever.
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The states' claim to injury, let alone the kind of injury that gives them standing to sue for nonenforcement of the immigration laws is even more tenuous than the long-ago claim of the environmentalists, thrown out of court by Justice Scalia's Lujan decision.
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What's more ominous for Mr. Biden is that his support with younger nonwhite voters is far more tenuous: Among racial minorities under 25, Mr. Sanders was the favorite at 73 percent, followed by Ms. Warren at 27 percent and Mr. Biden at only 22019 percent.
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But her support for the industry appeared more tenuous last month, when she said Facebook's refusal to take down a doctored video of her that made her appear drunk demonstrated how the social network contributed to misinformation and enabled Russian interference in the 20183 election.
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Photo: Carl Court (Getty Images)Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, whose status as an unwanted guest at the Ecuadorian embassy in London has been growing ever more tenuous for months, could reportedly be booted at any time, according to reports in CNN and the Times of London.
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According to new research by OpenUp, a behavioral research start-up based in New York, online shoppers have a good grasp of how much time they spent browsing for and purchasing items — but they have a far more tenuous grasp of how much money they spent.
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It has also been a valuable market for American goods, importing over $7 billion in 85033 as the 36th largest export market for the U.S. Yet South Africa's stability and strength now look more tenuous, and this has had an impact on its influence throughout the continent.
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But it is hard not to imagine that the staffers most likely to be chewed up and spit out of politics by a toxic work environment might be those whose finances or lack of personal connections make their grip on their place in Washington more tenuous.
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He has found evidence that there are some similarities between people with substance abuse disorders and people who excessively use social media, but he also has soon-to-be-published research demonstrating that some of those parallels, specifically those related to decision making, appear to be more tenuous.
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All of this will make Merkel's fourth term knottier and more tenuous than any before it, which will also sap her power to set German priorities in EU reform and in global affairs in general -- at a time when leadership and moderate conservatism are more critical than ever.
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The sport's standing in the public's eye became more tenuous in the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby two weeks ago when the colt Maximum Security crossed the finish line first in America's greatest race, only to be disqualified for interfering with his rivals and nearly causing a pileup.
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"Despite the fact that rates were not raised at the September FOMC meeting as we predicted, the truce at Federal Reserve has never been more tenuous and appears to be on the verge of an outright civil war," Doug Roberts, chief investment strategist at Channel Capital Research, said in a note.
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Decades later, Nancy's relationship (as well as her husband's more tenuous one) with an astrologer has been the subject of articles in USA Today and the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times focused on her horoscope habit in her obituary last year, noting that she was mocked for it.
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Many murder cases are built on science — fingerprints, ballistics, DNA — but Mr. Giuca's case was built from the start on something much more tenuous: the shifting stories of a group of privileged young people who were partying with him and Mr. Fisher on the late-night-into-morning when Mr. Fisher died.
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Famed Hollywood figures Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, and Bryan Singer have been the subject of disturbing accusations of child sexual abuse over the years, but as Molly Lambert recently wrote for MTV News, "Bambaataa's position is more tenuous... because he is not protected financially or insulated from the backlash" in the way many white men are.
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As much as Kjellberg might wish for his comedy to be seen as over the top and exaggerated, Disney and YouTube's respective reevaluations of their business relationships with him are a bold reminder that we're living in a historical period when joking about controversial subjects is a more tenuous proposition than ever — and one that could have serious real-world repercussions.
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Shulkin, who won unanimous confirmation by the Senate last year, had enjoyed bipartisan support and the backing of the President who touted his legislative victories at VA. But toward the end of the year, the situation seemed to grow more tenuous by the month -- with Shulkin telling reporters that Trump administration political appointees have been working to oust him over policy differences.
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Though the connection between external threats and reformist dissent has been more tenuous this century than it was during the Cold War, and though such dissent has posed much less of a challenge to the powerful than it did in the past, many elites after 9/11 did connect domestic dissent to terrorism and did implement policies with a potential chilling effect upon that dissent.
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If Dems are looking at 2018, it's not just the immigration issue that is important to those women but Trump's stance on women's issues in general — critical of planned parenthood, abortion, his support of Roy Moore in Alabama, his disdain for political correctness and his overall boorishness may counter whatever gains he may get, on immigration, from older white non-college men and women (and even the latter support may be more tenuous).
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