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"tenuous" Definitions
  1. so weak or uncertain that it hardly exists
  2. extremely thin and easily broken
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It's survival, however tenuous — especially when tenuous — that proves intriguing.
Tenuous relationship 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.
Often it feels like the world in your paintings has only a tenuous grip on the figures, or that the figures only have a tenuous grip on the world.
Okay, so it's a tenuous line at best, but for the poor Star Wars fans desperately awaiting the arrival of the next film, it was one tenuous line too many.
The situation is just as tenuous on the AV front.
But the tenuous relationship between Twitter and its users remained.
There's a tenuous link with sounds used in the album.
Kroft's exit comes after a tenuous period for CBS News.
However, Ali Bongo's ties to Paris have been more tenuous.
But hope was still a tenuous concept, and fear persisted.
Cersei's legitimate hold on the throne is tenuous, at best.
And in the tech world, market power can be tenuous.
Mr McDonald says that Ms Abrams's claims "are very tenuous".
When genre lines become tenuous, crossover flourishes, which is marvelous.
You have only a tenuous connection to this person IRL.
After all, she has relatively tenuous links to the government.
But her allies admit her grip on Iowa is tenuous.
Some of the victims' connections to the divorce were tenuous.
Lebanon already is in a tenuous situation, economically and politically.
The real limiting factor is the tenuous life of sperm.
These usually have at least a tenuous tie to spirituality.
Comedians, in particular, are in a tenuous position right now.
Sessions's position is even more tenuous with regard to Baltimore.
Now the Bertschmanns find themselves in a tenuous financial position.
The connections between the sentences feel both tenuous and tensile.
It's time to abandon our tenuous role as global cop.
Commoners have always had a tenuous relationship with the stars.
Yet with yields scraping toward zero, this math grows tenuous.
McCain's tenuous political relationship with Trump has a long history.
Without Utah, Trump's shaky path to victory would become more tenuous.
It brought Sharpton back to a tenuous point in his career.
And despite a tenuous cease-fire, the fighting is not over.
And sure enough, some of his claims are tenuous or worse.
Recent Greek economic data has shown how tenuous the recovery is.
It would be a threat to the unpopular president's tenuous rule.
The present-day OLPC Association's relationship with these projects is tenuous.
They are asking a more tenuous question: What will Trump accept?
Temer hoped the Olympics would strengthen his tenuous grip on power.
Together, they represent the tenuous and ultimately frail nature of power.
He's aware of the tenuous position this type of system presents.
After Sarah's flip last week, a tenuous majority alliance had formed.
Yet progress for children in the global AIDS response is tenuous.
His exit marked the end of what became a tenuous relationship.
It is tenuous and dangerous and the administration's approach is careful.
But the relation between pay and performance remains tenuous at best.
Still, McConnell said, the GOP's hold on the majority is tenuous.
Heartland had a link to Alfa Bank, but a tenuous one.
The situation for acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker is more tenuous.
You want to whisper, and whatever intimacy is established seems tenuous.
The pockets of life have become more tenuous with each visit.
CRUZ: You know, Donald has a tenuous relationship with the truth.
"Donald has a tenuous relationship with the truth," Mr. Cruz said.
Reinforcing tenuous attachments to fake friends is what Facebook does best.
"Donald has a tenuous relationship with the truth," Cruz warned them.
Mr. Cohn's rapport with Mr. Trump has been tenuous at times.
But that could be a legally tenuous option for two reasons.
That's a kind of tenuous justification, though that was trotted out.
The tensions threatened a tenuous détente in the slow-burning conflict.
Both Mr. Sánchez and Mr. Torra have tenuous grips on power.
For those without a solid education, work will be more tenuous.
It's a lot to take in, with tenuous connections between scenes.
But, privately, several department officials acknowledged that their position was tenuous.
Mr. Carson operates in that tenuous spot between hope and unrest.
Other than money, Bloomberg's ties to the Democratic Party are tenuous.
Levin's potential support for the deal was always tenuous at best.
Despite this enormous expenditure, the reconstruction effort remains tenuous and incomplete.
Mr. Trump's relationship with the conservative moment was tenuous at best.
They found a tenuous link, too, between bad air and anxiety.
Individual PMI surveys showed while German activity accelerated, it looked tenuous.
But he didn't have a paying job, and everything seemed tenuous.
Being a midlist writer is the most tenuous position in publishing.
This is a tenuous balance, which league ownership is keen to preserve.
But events in recent months demonstrate how tenuous that dominance still is.
When Dr. Mark Perlin formed Cybergenetics in 1994, such techniques were tenuous.
A number of figures still in the administration are in tenuous spots.
I traveled to Beijing to chronicle this tenuous moment in Baidu's history.
"It was a very tenuous existence for many years," Barton Pine says.
I worry about my own tenuous employment as an adjunct English lecturer.
His visit comes during a tenuous moment between Washington and the kingdom.
After the tour, I asked Sampson about the company's tenuous financial position.
The connection between you and your elected representative is getting more tenuous.
America has already blocked deals on grounds of national security, some tenuous.
But the link between Christ and Rudolph is tenuous to non-existent.
They know their jobs are tenuous, and they rely on those paychecks.
The legal status of kratom has been tenuous for some times now.
Khomeini was tenuous, at best, and the Mojahedin suffered from its own
Of course, the connection to copyright law is a wee bit tenuous.
The landscape has never been more tenuous for safe and legal abortion.
However, its chances of becoming law in Chile's divided parliament are tenuous.
Companies with tenuous links to the new name also received a boost.
B.J. Rudell: The GOP's tenuous grip on blue and purple state legislatures.
McClure says she's never seen a naturalization document with such tenuous claims.
"We've got some very tenuous and dangerous days ahead," Garamendi said. Rep.
The new cease-fire, less than a week old, is already tenuous.
The meeting comes at a tenuous time between Trump and the press.
Ruben Tejada's role on the 2016 Mets always seemed a little tenuous.
Communities in the north can't possibly hang from such a tenuous thread.
Add a TV-addicted president and the situation becomes even more tenuous.
What, pray tell, made us doubt the brand's tenuous grasp on reality?
Put it all together and it's a tenuous path forward, at best.
It's a shocking reminder of how tenuous our hold is on earth.
Historically, the Reggae Girlz have received tenuous support from their national federation.
It gives one a sense of control, albeit tenuous, over the situation.
Any reprieve for investors could be tenuous, with trade partly to blame.
For acting schools that pay rent, the situation is even more tenuous.
However, he does note the tenuous short-term position the company faces.
Subsequently, a new army chief was named and a tenuous calm followed.
The first few days of my aunt's life were the most tenuous.
Her lack of poise and uneasiness showed how tenuous her position is.
Even Obama-era law enforcement officials had a tenuous relationship to reform.
HD 131399Ab also seems to have a tenuous hold on its orbit.
Tenuous as they may seem, Mr. Cahn saw the links as compelling.
Regulations have put the company's already-tenuous international growth plans at risk.
Only his tenuous bond to Syd seems to keep him from doing so.
She and McCloughan provide a tenuous kind of social protection to each other.
The line between "culture" and "politics" in Eastern Europe has always been tenuous.
Rival parties may be persuaded to desist, and a tenuous stability take hold.
The harsher Israel's security measures become the more tenuous his position will become.
Absent one or both of those states, Trump's path becomes tenuous, at best.
The reality is that gay rights in the US are tenuous at best.
The economic reasons for cutting rates at this time are tenuous at best.
CNN's Fred Pleitgen took a drive through Aleppo where a tenuous ceasefire holds.
The film has the power to expose its audience's own tenuous morality. Netflix.
We'll allow that this creates an extremely tenuous connection between the two women.
Until the last few years, Nate Young's relationship to the dancefloor was tenuous.
The relationship between President Trump and McConnell was tenuous at best throughout 2628.
Wade, the state of reproductive rights in America are in a tenuous position.
Many of those purged appear to have only tenuous links to the Gulenists.
The verdict issued by the Yugoslavia war-crimes tribunal accepts this tenuous argument.
Protestors' naïveté about these matters is understandable given their tenuous association with reality.
The state acknowledges in its suit that its position is tenuous at best.
" Her lawyers called the connections in these articles "highly tenuous and deliberately inflammatory.
As Douyu warns in its prospectus, its alliance with Tencent can be tenuous.
The link between that accusation and Comey's testimony may at first seem tenuous.
The prospect of any return on investment or reward is tenuous at best.
Yet Grace also illustrates how tenuous the golden age of data really is.
But analysts stressed that any recovery in the markets will likely be tenuous.
The trade truce, though, remains tenuous, and the negotiations could easily be derailed.
The reasons for keeping GE together — shared resources and technology — look increasingly tenuous.
The idea, which was legally tenuous, appears not to have gotten very far.
As White House press secretary, Sanders had a tenuous relationship with the press.
Immediately after his departure, the tenuous state of the Yankees' bullpen was exposed.
Not me, personally — my hold on reality is tenuous enough without chemical alteration.
The economy has pulled out of recession, but the recovery has been tenuous.
The continued spread of the novel coronavirus makes the SARS comparison increasingly tenuous.
The Syrian Democratic Forces itself is a tenuous alliance between Kurds and Arabs.
Washington and Beijing have yet to sign even a tenuous "phase one" agreement.
And the actual ending, while troubling, holds out a tenuous kind of hope.
The kind of metaphor Christle seeks is at once truer and more tenuous.
That generational progress, tenuous and subject to retrenching, is best viewed from distance.
The spoils of even a tenuous recovery remain the subject of bitter acrimony.
For two months, Chicago's status as a true two-newspaper town seemed tenuous.
The interview — and his new role — comes at a tenuous time for HTC.
It was priced so high because of a tenuous link with "Harry Potter."
As they've grown bigger, the tenuous balance between relatability and aspiration has shifted.
The future of the current bill being debated in the Senate is tenuous.
Republicans focused on maintaining their tenuous majority still face a steep and long climb.
Finally, the way that wellness programs are run makes genetic privacy even more tenuous.
But the tenuous peace Rajapaksa helped secure in 2009 came at a heavy cost.
By coming out, they risk losing their tenuous, budding relationships with new family members.
Sessions spoke, acknowledging the tenuous nature of his and Rosenstein's time leading the department.
Indeed, 2016's tenuous grasp on shared facts feels almost quaint by 2017 standards.
But unless no-deal becomes more likely, forecasts of its impact require tenuous assumptions.
That's what makes the whole China tariff situation tenuous for automakers such as Ford.
Especially in the inland communities where infrastructure was already tenuous, people were completely disconnected.
One can only browse so much news before one's grip on reality becomes tenuous.
But the long-term viability of this research remains in a tenuous regulatory place.
The crime scene was bloody and brutal, but the evidence against Lincoln was tenuous.
United States, she feels her place in America has grown only more tenuous since
For low-­income households, the connection is often tenuous, especially once introductory rates expire.
" Biden appeared to acknowledge his tenuous position Wednesday, conceding that he "got knocked down.
So at least there's a less than entirely tenuous connection in that crypto instance.
Populations in Pacific states like California, where there are barely a dozen, are tenuous.
Most examples I found seemed too long, too tenuous, or too complicated for me.
The search also indicates that Manafort may be in a tenuous position with prosecutors.
Analysts say Temer's increasingly tenuous position could become an obstacle for his reform push.
But these decisions were never easy, and the balance we struck was always tenuous.
But the two buns could also act as a rather tenuous butt metaphor too.
Rothwell says that the GOP's claimed link between tax policy and productivity is tenuous.
The recovery is "just real tenuous," said JJ Kinahan, chief strategist at TD Ameritrade.
But when he tweets, he exposes himself as someone who has only a tenuous
Spoken in Dothraki, the Targaryen teaser is about Daenerys's tenuous place in the world.
That measure of optimism was tenuous for Houston, like it always is against Texas.
He believes a tenuous geopolitical situation could push prices to $1400 in a hurry.
"This is one more example of how tenuous the law really is," Kemp said.
And yet, even then, residents understood that the black hold on Harlem was tenuous.
The problem is that the hold of reason in human affairs is always tenuous.
Orlando is clearly a "standalone" attack with only a tenuous connection to ISIS. 2.
Finally, the tenuous security situation and constant political gridlock is crippling the Afghan economy.
Still, over the last two years, Pelosi's grasp on power has grown more tenuous.
Price's travel on private jets, at taxpayers' expense, only made his job more tenuous.
The tie between cleantech startups and fintech investors may seem tenuous at first thought.
But it's not clear whether weed jumpstarts anxiety disorders, and the association is tenuous.
And until this past weekend, Mr. Biden's path to the Democratic nomination appeared tenuous.
Victims whose connections to the bomber, and to one another, seem tenuous or nonexistent.
This was always a tenuous alliance, and it appears to have finally blown apart.
This one is the most complicated, and has the most tenuous line to Netanyahu.
The shifting dynamic has threatened the U.S.-backed government's tenuous hold on the region.
Chen embraces solid color and tenuous shadow, making both part of the viewer's experience.
It has a tenuous, momentary feel, as if one were reading a Turner painting.
Any connection between this new restaurant and the space's former tenant, Brasserie, is tenuous.
Tshisekedi's authority is tenuous given the large majorities enjoyed by Kabila's allies in parliament.
The pact has at times been tenuous, but the sectarian violence has mostly subsided.
But the tenuous relationship described in the statement above doesn't appear to be accurate.
The new connections we do form are tenuous, easily disrupted by the slightest inconvenience.
After all, she was still in Georgia, where LGBTQ rights were tenuous at best.
With its troubled economy and dearth of democratic institutions, its prospects were already tenuous.
Biden's possible resurrection in South Carolina also makes the case for Mike Bloomberg tenuous.
And while Giuliani's demagogic approach won him the election, it was a tenuous victory.
We can totally see the connection, but let's be honest — it's a tenuous one.
WeWork's public debut looks even more tenuous with CEO Adam Neumann's future in question.
"Obviously I lived, but it was a very long and tenuous recovery," she said.
But the Republicans' tenuous grip on the House is exposing the limits of gerrymandering.
Those searches have also faced criticism because the alleged gang connections can be tenuous.
But even the most generous readings of a path forward for Swalwell seem tenuous.
This puts Trump in a tenuous situation as the partial government shutdown drags on.
In the context of how we know Ramsay, the show's deference feels forced and tenuous.
Evidence that it could enhance a man without any such issues is even more tenuous.
It was always the character stuff that this series had a more tenuous grasp on.
Rumours of Russian cash for nationalist parties in Italy, Greece and Hungary are more tenuous.
In the meantime, the truce between the world's two largest economies looks tenuous at best.
Her safety felt tenuous, but anything was better than being in a home with him.
Trump's an unorthodox sort with, by most accounts, a fairly tenuous grasp on modern technologies.
But his freedom feels tenuous, because prosecutors could refile charges against him at any time.
Fittingly, it all feels a bit like watching a baby takes its first tenuous steps.
In an interview with PEOPLE, Cline says her relationship with her mother is still tenuous.
So the connection between this concept and today's rental news was a bit more tenuous.
Despite his tenuous health, the ailing senator was on hand for his daughter's big day.
The connection of this verse to the track it lies within is tenuous at best.
The country has made some progress in recent years, but it's been tenuous at best.
But, as the debate showed, Mr Trump's grip on the truth is tenuous at times.
"The corona is very tenuous plasma; it is not a hugely dense area," Fox said.
When Sasha comes home to open a new restaurant, the two have a tenuous reunion.
On a global scale, coal is still king, but its reign has become increasingly tenuous.
But that positive perception is tenuous due to the massive power outages in the state.
Members of the Italian witness-protection program lead a cautious, tenuous, and often tedious existence.
The figures showed that employers are not cutting jobs, even though economic growth remains tenuous.
Only in Tunisia, where France was the dominant western power, has tenuous democracy taken hold.
The tight race between Trump and Cruz has shattered a tenuous peace between the two.
The de facto alliance between Israel and its Sunni Arab neighbors is a tenuous one.
My mother clung to it — "We are middle class" — because our grasp was so tenuous.
Hunger's decline is a tenuous one, and for some communities it remains a major problem.
But if recent policy decisions and trends are an indicator, America's nuclear future seems tenuous.
The "peace" tranche of the peace and prosperity message is also looking a little tenuous.
Such tones served as the show's collective nerve, sometimes dreamy, sometimes tenuous, and often restive.
It goes to show just how tenuous our hold on our digital lives really is.
He has a tenuous relationship with the truth and an inch-deep understanding of policy.
But though they were supposed to fulfill this requirement, enforcement of the practice was tenuous.
It also features a spoken word section about the tenuous relationship between frustration and desire.
As long as the settlements exist, peace in the Middle East remains a tenuous prospect.
Negotiations to end the war remain tenuous, with no clarity on Mr. Assad's future role.
They refer to one another as "friends," but to me their bond looks very tenuous.
When we last left L'Rell, her hold on the Klingon Empire was tenuous at best.
How much power will a president with such tenuous claim to it get to wield?
On the one hand, he is trying to improve his tenuous relationship with Mr. Trump.
The two, wild and urban, have long had a tenuous coexistence in the Golden State.
Such a move would be legally tenuous and would face a near-certain court challenge.
Her financial situation had become tenuous after her partner of eight years died in 2015.
As tenuous as this agreement was, it did hold until about the spring of 2019.
The cosmic odds are weighted heavily against capturing a civilization in this tenuous radio blitz.
Its branches often have tenuous connections to the original movement founded in Egypt in 1928.
The fresh reminder of Instagram's competitive position comes amid a tenuous time for Snap's stock.
But the clashes between them underscore the tenuous grip it exerts on Somalia's powerful regions.
Republicans' tenuous majorities in both chambers of Virginia's state Legislature are in peril on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the job status of his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, appears to remain tenuous.
The relationship was always tenuous at best, but Corker's comments are a new low point.
Now, with a conservative majority on the court, Roe's fate appears as tenuous as ever.
Never has a 2-1 lead in a best-of-seven series felt so tenuous.
But as far as we know, its relationship to the Trump administration is tenuous and ambiguous.
And if you sit there and yell "fake!" that's not insensitive, it's ignorant, possibly legally tenuous.
And during the president′s short political career, he has shown a tenuous grasp of statistics.
It has only a tenuous grip on its own capital, where armed groups operate without control.
Somalilanders say their link to Somalia is tenuous, a fluke of a border drawn decades ago.
The link from one artwork to another is fleeting and their connections seem, at worst, tenuous.
Nowhere in modern culture does this tenuous relationship play out more tellingly than in hip-hop.
Even after Yanukovych fled in February 2014, The Family maintained a tenuous grip over Ukraine's assets.
Many turned out to be marginal figures who had tenuous, if any, links to al-Qaeda.
In a way, Jonathan's tenuous alliance with Ripley presages Mr. Wenders's own Faustian pact with Hollywood.
Cuts to these positions will make WeWork's insistence that it's a tech company even more tenuous.
North Korean negotiators will be acutely aware of the president's tenuous standing if talks do resume.
As a former Taoist and current atheist, I have a tenuous relationship with the spirit world.
Putin may have emerged as a Middle East power broker, but his gains elsewhere are tenuous.
Israeli aircraft struck back, hitting facilities belonging to militant groups, before a tenuous ceasefire took hold.
Both the business plan and the Famous branding embody a tenuous balance between boldness and hubris.
Temer said on Thursday he would not resign, but his hold on office has become tenuous.
Namely, the idea that when women have it, their grip is ever anything more than tenuous.
There&aposs also no costing estimate for HAMMER yet, which makes the plans even more tenuous.
The outer atmosphere is inflated and tenuous, making the radius immense and the surface temperature low.
The trip comes as the tenuous stability of the region is resonating for the Trump administration.
Yet, it's irresistible, particularly in an era where the American promise feels more tenuous than ever.
The episode focussed, as many do, on the tenuous relationship between Scott Disick and Kourtney Kardashian.
Until then, all we have is the feds' tenuous claims, and the Wiretap Report's dwindling numbers.
How does Newt get entangled in the tenuous wizard and No-Maj relations in the States?
But even the most generous reading of a path to the nomination for Swalwell seems tenuous.
There's a sense, however, that Nakamura's simmering push to superstar status in WWE may be tenuous.
In the years since the 2011 revolution, this tenuous situation has been compounded by new problems.
Despite the fact that it was kinda tenuous recording in that apartment, it was Woods's space.
Now, however, the government is starting to target people with only tenuous links to the cemaat.
The 2001 AUMF is tenuous legal authority for the use of military force in these situations.
By lying to Mueller, Manafort took a reckless gamble and put himself in a tenuous position.
I'm glad this embarrassing video exists, because my memory of those six minutes is so tenuous.
There's loveliness to be found in grimy city sidewalks and the tenuous plunge of new love.
The alleged exchange rate manipulation is a technically tenuous argument (in fact, theoretically and practically indemonstrable).
They had lower pay, less status and tenuous job security, particularly if they spoke their minds.
The ties between Communists and nationalists were always tenuous, precisely because the Communists recognized their incompatibility.
Because of that and Carolina's reputation, what was numerically a blowout felt a little more tenuous.
But the protections offered by those laws have always been as tenuous as they are broad.
But when Parliament is so weak, its legitimacy so tenuous, they can look like democratic upsurge.
The shifting dynamic has, in turn, threatened the American-backed government's tenuous hold on the region.
That puts political journalists in a tenuous (and, if things get really bad, possibly unsafe) position.
Any fracture in the facade or unity might topple our tenuous, newly earned, mostly illusory strength.
Three other senators were facing similar allegations — claiming travel and housing expenses based on tenuous claims.
And the evidence against Kavanaugh is more tenuous than in almost any other high-profile case.
President Trump's first Supreme Court appointment, Neil Gorsuch, proved how tenuous Justice Kennedy's pronouncements can be.
And indigenous communities already have a tenuous hold on the land they live and work on.
As Yemen's ongoing connectivity issues underscore, though, the fallback options for some regions are more tenuous.
But his control beyond Damascus is "tenuous", and "crime and warlordism are rampant", says the panel.
But even with all that going for them, the path to a majority is still tenuous.
There is no more tenuous comfort than that which rests on the possibility of another's remorse.
Now, given the tenuous state of the media industry, the company has plans to exploit it.
Trump has had a tenuous relationship with the technology industry, especially with firms in Silicon Valley.
And that could make the bill's fate in the more narrowly divided Senate much more tenuous.
The president repeated this criticism of Comey, whose links to Blagojevich's case were tenuous, on Tuesday.
The protests have also created a tenuous unity in the ethnically and regionally divided Sudanese society.
Always somewhat legally tenuous, these will be cast to the wind at the soonest possible opportunity.
Tenuous moment Trump's deliberations this week over how to respond to the deadly chemical attack occurred at a tenuous moment for his presidency, with the special counsel's investigation winding its way further into the President's inner circle and many of Trump's trusted aides rushing for the exits.
We watch in mutual horror as the dish congeals before our eyes, before taking a tenuous forkful.
Even on a calm day, salt water laps over the road's tenuous boundaries and splashes the concrete.
The next seven-day span may go down as the most tenuous of Trump's first 100 days.
Those with deep ties to the party deserve greater input than those with tenuous or nonexistent connections.
Rather than waiting for those tenuous experiences, I urge people to be proactive and follow their values.
When, if ever, do the tenuous bounds of peace and disruption in protest veer off into harassment?
And it gives Democrats a path — if a tenuous one — to win the Senate majority in 2018.
As the downsides from tariffs become clearer, the reasons to strike an agreement, however tenuous, will prevail.
So even if the connection between snacks and hardware seems tenuous, it's all related in the end.
But because more than 503 hours had passed since DeLeon first experienced symptoms, his condition was tenuous.
Governments are weak, unpopular and often have only a tenuous grip over remote parts of their territory.
It's a tenuous relationship that I wouldn't quite call friendship; it's more like a mentorship of sorts.
Down the line, as the startups seek to expand into adjacent markets, that tenuous alliance might change.
Mara feels like a more tenuous pick than she should, but she's the beating heart of Carol.
These include villain-then-tenuous friend Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) and the mysterious Mr. Nobody (Kurt Russell).
At the time, it seemed like they were on a tenuous path to reconciliation (they even kiss).
And Sutton, despite her friends' efforts to intervene, transitioned her affair with Richard into a tenuous relationship.
But even the most generous reading of a path to the nomination for Swalwell was always tenuous.
CNN global affairs correspondent Elise Labott described the agreement to cease hostilities as both significant and tenuous.
The Diyanet, meanwhile, has extended its mosque programme to countries whose connection to Ottoman history is tenuous.
But the longer low inflation persists (here and around the world), the more tenuous that story becomes.
The fresh allegations have injected a new level of uncertainty into Kavanaugh's already tenuous path to confirmation.
Korea has almost nothing in common with India, apart from a tenuous connection through ancient Buddhist history.
What's in store for the country now that those tenuous checks on his worst impulses are gone?
But there are signs that Biden's support among black voters may be more tenuous than once thought.
"Some tenuous connection to a politically fraught issue does not justify abdicating our judicial duty," Thomas wrote.
But rumors about a link to Cupertino, no matter how tenuous, have still paid off for Hertz.
The relationship between stocks and recessions is very well-studied, but unfortunately, the relationship is very tenuous.
Mars Express made tenuous detections of methane, but its instruments were not sensitive enough for definitive conclusions.
Cather's legacy occupies a tenuous spot in the small town, which has a population of 1,050 today.
Even if these electricity claims are tenuous — and many experts say they are — Trump might well succeed.
That's their evolutionary motive: to create lots and lots of kids, because their lives are so tenuous.
As Prokopi's financial situation becomes increasingly tenuous, these dinosaur bones become his only hope for avoiding ruin.
Still, it's possible the political situation, and the tenuous balance of power in the Senate, could change.
In Europe, the trade war presents another unwanted source of concern at a time of tenuous progress.
Most of the Lighthouse Winmore's 123 crewmen were Chinese, but other connections to China were more tenuous.
On this veteran avant-garde pianist's second album with Snowy Egret, the quintet moves with tenuous grace.
Although he was in the United States legally, seeking asylum from gang persecution, his status was tenuous.
"Some tenuous connection to a politically fraught issue does not justify abdicating our judicial duty," Thomas added.
" (FT) • Brook Sutherland writes, "The reasons for keeping G.E. together — shared resources and technology — look increasingly tenuous.
If the shooter has any links to a jihadist group, however tenuous, we have the "terrorism" conversation.
And it's a tenuous time to be a young activist, let alone a young activist of color.
Which is a happy ending, and a tenuous one, because the temptation to drink never goes away.
This is the lot of Afghanistan's towns, far from the tenuous security that the main cities provide.
If this law creates an "anchor," it is attached to a very long and very tenuous chain.
The GOP holds a tenuous 51-seat majority with McCain, who is away from Washington battling cancer.
While Bethany waits for the decision on her appeal, she and Zaina continue their tenuous existence together.
Bangui has enjoyed relative stability since an inter-religious conflict came to a tenuous end in 2015.
Eight years after "The Walking Dead" debuted on AMC, the future of its zombie universe feels tenuous.
And he'll discuss a tenuous Iran situation with other world leaders, including Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Given Bolsonaro's tenuous legislative position, evangelicals could influence policies on guns, labor, the environment, human rights, or poverty.
He checked in with Booth every day, but otherwise his link to the team was tenuous at best.
The Russian president may have emerged as a Middle East power broker, but his gains elsewhere are tenuous.
The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition.
Research suggests that mandate claims, despite their tenuous connection to reality, can be effective in affecting legislative behavior.
"I just think it's very tenuous for justice to say, 'We can have this stuff and you can't.'"
Strand suggests San Diego but we don't know if San Diego is safer than L.A. It's quite tenuous.
In a statement to Politico, a Romney spokesperson said the connection between Black and the senator was tenuous
That, and the fact that we have no hard results, makes extrapolating from these data tenuous at best.
"Having been divorced myself, there were times when my relationships with my children were very tenuous," he said.
The money woes paint a picture of an increasingly tenuous business, one that's been disrupted by rocket malfunctions.
To be sure, the U.S. could find itself in a tenuous position due to its own monetary practices.
It was 1963, and Peppiatt laid claim to but a tenuous introduction to the renowned painter he sought.
His success in November could be crucial to helping the GOP maintain its tenuous grip on the Senate.
Officials in the district of Swabi and the village of Shabqadar have followed up with legally tenuous edicts.
Given the way that marijuana legalization has slipped back and forth, is the current success of legalization tenuous?
As unstoppable as Golden State feels right now, the dominance of this current group is temporary and tenuous.
It is a bold move by the President during a tenuous and pivotal time in U.S.-Cuba relations.
IDC's latest stats suggest that both companies' market positions were far more tenuous than they may have seemed.
Moon's campaign platform is likely to upend the tenuous status quo when it comes to the Korean Peninsula.
The dispute is likely to exacerbate fissures in the tenuous alliances that shape Middle East politics, analysts say.
The link Redford is trying to draw between Sundance's independence and its relative diversity remains tenuous at best.
Brett Kavanaugh's seemingly tenuous relationship with the truth is still haunting those who watched him testify on Thursday.
And since that first debate, the Vermont senator's poll position has only grown more tenuous -- with Massachusetts Sen.
Then within that tenuous system, only a small fraction of those drops grow large enough to form precipitation.
It's important and it has an ever-so-tenuous similarity to their narrative, and they sneak it in.
The currency and the political system of the UK, previously viewed as a solid bet, suddenly appeared tenuous.
That same coalition, which has held together despite a very tenuous political consensus, is now penetrating Western Mosul.
Yet the city has managed to preserve a tenuous air of normalcy, at least in its downtown districts.
Tenuous Bluetooth connections are the problem that has most consistently plagued the first generation of truly wireless earbuds.
Over the weekend, nature made the regime's future even more tenuous by removing one of its two pillars.
"I think it's too tenuous given that we are in the midst of a slowing economy," he said.
But the connection between "paid patriotism" and players being mandated to be present for the anthem is tenuous.
Finally, the relationship between stock prices and real investment that expands the economy's capacity has gotten very tenuous.
Beardall, also a University of Texas Law School professor, said the claims Texas makes of harm are tenuous.
Today, I got started in the puzzle with EMIR/EWER in the southeast, which gave me TENURES/TENUOUS.
It's also a tenuous one, as a handful of the online beauty community's brightest stars have recently learned.
The darkness that floods in is tenuous, a temporary fright before the projector's light re-illuminates the space.
But many biologists doubt that such a tenuous hold on life could extend for a few billion years.
Without a past to glorify and uplift you, how do you propel yourself into an unknown, tenuous future?
The union of states and the republican form of government were new, tenuous, vulnerable and open to debate.
While calls months ago for his resignation have quieted, his relations with some residents remain strained and tenuous.
And Mr. Trump's provocations are making the Republicans' control of the Senate, perhaps even the House, more tenuous.
While I felt increasingly invincible the more I learned in medical school, my dad's health grew increasingly tenuous.
It was possible last week to squint and see tenuous signs that the tape was gaining intermittent traction.
In part four, we'll take in the grand scope of Rueda's vision and contemplate its tenuous political fate.
Of course this is hard to do when your campaign has a tenuous relationship with the Republican Party.
Mr. Sanders's ties to the borough since leaving it after one year at Brooklyn College are somewhat tenuous.
If you looked at it from a modern lens, then the connections to religion seems a bit tenuous.
The choices that, upon further examination, seem like they were shaped by some tenuous bond to the past.
This documentary takes us into her adopted home in England and explores the tenuous relationship with her father.
The difficult-to-trace spread of the coronavirus across two continents is straining an already tenuous global order.
As far as China and the United States are concerned, a tenuous truce seems to have been declared.
CBS's "Training Day," beginning on Thursday and set in the present, has a tenuous connection to the original.
Such revelations undermine the tenuous trust that Xi must maintain with the Chinese people, lest the system crumble.
But to watch this shape-shifting, all-knowing man with a tenuous connection to humanity fall in love?
The past episodes also reflect the tenuous relationships Bloomberg had with unions during his three terms as mayor.
I believe that centers for critical creativity are the lifeblood of a very tenuous environmental and political future.
So if they both need each other, the question becomes how this increasingly tenuous relationship will play out.
In defense of the pay package, a Tesla spokesperson pointed to the tenuous nature of the judge's ruling.
"Anything in the South was still tenuous," said Coraleen Rawls, collections manager at the Motown Museum in Detroit.
The international community is backing the Government of National Accord, which maintains a tenuous hold on the capital.
The timing matters because Jones's victory narrows the Republican majority in the Senate to a tenuous 51 votes.
The tenuous situation of contested borders with neighboring countries — especially Vietnam — is the object of much nationalistic fervor.
The downsizing exacerbated an already tenuous relationship between teachers and CPS administrators and drew swift rebuke from students.
I wonder if these tenuous expressions would translate at all to a bronze cast from a clay original.
He's got control of the enemy vessel, but it's tenuous, because he's only got a small staff of loyalists.
The authors built their case meticulously, but to me the impact and mid-ocean volcanism looks tenuous at best.
Sony has, of course, said Kesha can work with other producers, but the veracity of that promise is tenuous.
And Trump and Ryan would also have a joint achievement that could cement their so-far tenuous political alliance.
Some researchers are now starting to point to the first, still-tenuous hint of a familiar suspect: North Korea.
The Impact are fifth in the East, currently in a playoff spot, but it's a tenuous spot at best.
Many, like Spielman, have been recommending purchasing Altria stock in recent months even as JUUL's fate became increasingly tenuous.
Traders reacted negatively on Monday to Trump ratcheting up the rhetoric amid this tenuous time and China's retaliatory tariffs.
Some members of Abu Sayyaf pledged allegiance to ISIS in 2014, though the connection between the groups remain tenuous.
She's in her early 20s, and her life is a fog of existential ennui occasionally punctuated by tenuous connection.
Recent Greek economic data has shown how tenuous the recovery is, with inflation rising and economic growth contracting again.
However, that doesn't explain everything and even could hint that no matter who wins, the business climate remains tenuous.
"Chapter 453" is an exploration in all of the tenuous alliances that will dominate House Of Cards season 6.
The use of chemical weapons clearly violates international law, but history has shown us that moral restraints are tenuous.
All this is taking place in an increasingly tense environment and with the United States in a tenuous position.
It's a complicated question that calls for a tenuous balance that many of us are still struggling to find.
The track, meanwhile, explores a tenuous relationship with desire over a jazzy keyboard progression and a lithe house rhythm.
On the surface, one could see that these speakers had at least a tenuous relationship to the night's topic.
Hours earlier, Clinton had dashed on stage to claim her somewhat tenuous victory before the networks even called it.
But beneath the surface, Cruz's hold on Iowa is tenuous, a close observation of 15 of his events reveals.
In it, she touches on her childhood sexual abuse, her eating disorder to her tenuous relationship with Burt Reynolds.
Trump has long advocated a policy of pushing China to pressure with its neighbor and tenuous ally, North Korea.
She's already on thin ice with many of her party members — and her position could get even more tenuous.
Whereas state-owned banks often hide their party background, their shadow peers play up their government connections, however tenuous.
The pivotal moment came at the par-five 17th, where her tenuous one-stroke advantage looked likely to evaporate.
On one side, goalie Ben Bishop, who saved 222 of 28 shots, including 15 in a tenuous first period.
"It's that location where we will see the very tenuous atmosphere of Mercury called an exosphere," Dr. Green said.
Anyone with a perceived connection to ISIS , however tenuous or unclear, is being killed or cast out of society.
Disagreements over encryption standards are also threatening to cleave the tenuous relationship between the private sector and government officials.
What I try to impart to young people is how fragile, how tenuous, but also how precious it is.
The use of chemical weapons clearly violates international law, but history has shown us that moral restraints are tenuous.
It had never occurred to me that more distance, more barriers, more tenuous connections would lead to purer readings.
When the good news came that the pipeline would be halted, however temporarily, all those tenuous bonds broke down.
And he's bemoaned Europe's handling of migrants, using the tenuous situation there as rationale for his own hardline tactics.
They succeeded over the weekend, although control of the road remains too tenuous to allow for regular aid access.
It employs case managers devoted to overseeing tenuous, often costly, transitions between the hospital and home for complex patients.
But the concordance, however tenuous, between this patient and my dad was something I was not prepared to process.
"It's a tenuous balance," she said, adding that it works only because there are two cabins on the property.
But Sri Lanka is not the only country whose government has an increasingly tenuous relationship with the social networks.
Mainstream leaders, including Ms. May, have warned that revoking Brexit would shatter Britons' already-tenuous faith in their democracy.
Weekends, vacations and humane schedules are a rarity in restaurants, where hours are long and time off is tenuous.
Many have never worked in the private sector or have only outdated or tenuous connections to non-academic employers.
Mr. Kirstein often said he was amazed each night as the curtain rose, so tenuous was the whole enterprise.
We have accepted this tenuous situation because, for a very long time, computer security has mostly been about data.
" I want to repeat that: "Neither is a good look at a time when trust in media is tenuous.
More broadly, Hong Kong's position as a Chinese city that exists outside the mainland's laws has become increasingly tenuous.
Over the weekend and into Monday, rocket attacks targeted the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, and Libya's tenuous ceasefire faltered.
The United States and China had achieved a tenuous pause in a trade war that had damaged both sides.
Mr. Ozawa's command of spoken English has always been tenuous, to his regret, as he notes on several occasions.
This is our country, and no one has the right to undermine the tenuous democracy we hold so precious.
One could easily become confused about the tenuous relationship between Europe, America and the rest of the known world.
But we shouldn't get bogged down in the particulars of the letter or its tenuous relationship to the facts.
Markle and Harry have had, at best, a tenuous relationship with the tabloid press that's followed their lives incessantly.
His political fortunes are tied to those of Republican leaders in Congress, but the trust between them is tenuous.
Even so, the committee could still send it to the full Senate, where Mr. Tillerson's chances would be tenuous.
Francisco, who requested his full name not be used due to his tenuous life in Mexico, is not alone.
And with that, I lost the last tenuous threads that tethered me, albeit incredibly briefly, to the dream world.
We enjoyed less than a decade of tenuous freedom in Russia before Vladimir Putin launched its post-democratic phase.
Protests set off by economic crisis and misrule have forged a tenuous unity among various ethnic and regional groups.
From this tenuous footing, Sakai managed to scramble to the roof of a nearby building that hadn't washed away.
Lawmakers will begin working out some of the more tenuous aspects of the funding bill as early as Tuesday.
Mr. Trump is showing only a tenuous grasp of the legislative process and mercurial leadership in rounding up support.
But, I'm hyper-aware right now of the tenuous situation that exists when we critique a smaller developer's work.
He missed a series of races, and entered a tenuous legal battle in order to be cleared to race.
However, there are many reasons why this is a tenuous conclusion: No one can conduct a survey of ancient populations.
My personal connection to Linkin Park has been tenuous (read: nonexistent outside of karaoke booths) over the last 14 years.
The bill has been postponed but Lam's position has become tenuous because of the embarrassment the shift has caused Beijing.
There is some hope that negotiations could be salvaged, but this situation highlights how tenuous any US-China deal remains.
If anything, billionaire Tom Steyer, whose viability is tenuous and needs a big surprise soon, held the stage more prominently.
Though the link might seem tenuous, literary history is well stocked with works that were penned with listeners in mind.
References to WarGames, Back to the Future, and Infocom text adventures are actually motivated, tenuous though that motivation may be.
The tenuous connection between Angels in America and Trump — which was there, however subtextually, from the beginning — was suddenly overt.
They're speaking more softly in Richard Nelson's Rhinebeck these days, as if a raised voice might upset a tenuous balance.
As a songwriter, his themes encompassed love in all its manifestations, religion, faith and the tenuous state of the world.
But ISIS claims responsibility for many attacks, and analysts say sometimes the links between events and the groups are tenuous.
But if this summer has showed us anything, it's that Taylor Swift might have a tenuous relationship with the truth.
Mr Rouhani's popularity has plunged, and with it his control (always tenuous) over the Revolutionary Guards and other hawkish factions.
They began to experiment with LSD, which had a disastrous effect on Jones' tenuous mental state, giving him horrendous nightmares.
This means we're about to catch up to what exactly goes wrong to make Philip and Elizabeth's reunion so tenuous.
But one GOP vote has been looking increasingly tenuous: Susan Collins of Maine, the most moderate Republican in the Senate.
And notably, the normalization of a presidency that seemed so tenuous in January is an accomplishment in itself for Trump.
If it doesn't have an economic return, it's going to be incredibly embarrassing and hurt the city's already tenuous economy.
This was the other, more tenuous link between them: They had all been accused of committing blasphemy on the internet.
A stable but tenuous peace existed with Israel, and ISIS and al Queda didn't control large swaths of the nation.
Unlike presidents of the past, his grip on the decades before his inauguration appears, at times, tenuous or non-existent.
Announced yesterday at Google's opening I/O keynote, the Pixel 3a arrives at a tenuous time for the smartphone industry.
Despite my tenuous grasp of the languages, I often make the right choice to help endear me to these aliens.
Faraji believed that our gains were too tenuous to risk putting our child in anything but a top-notch school.
Tensions flared and a tenuous bipartisan coalition that had won the program's approval in the House of Representatives disintegrated. Gov.
Upon learning this, I felt, at once, that my brain was miraculous and that the whole process was completely tenuous.
The NSR, then, can exacerbate pre-existing north-south disparities within the EU, adding stress to the already tenuous union.
But all can fall apart still -- and that would send the bill back to its tenuous standing of this morning.
Bullock has so far remained on the team's roster, but McAdoo conceded that Bullock's position with the club was tenuous.
Still, the basis for the court's decision shows how tenuous the conclusions should be in this area of the law.
This tenuous guilt-by-association brief is probably why the Veselnitskaya meeting with the Trump inner circle didn't last long.
The result is often less intimate, more casual friendships between men, making the connections more tenuous and harder to sustain.
When the occasional essay fails to hold interest it's because the connections Cole draws to some European lineage remain tenuous.
While Islamists were quite favorable to these regimes, the regimes' ties to domestic Islamist actors have been tenuous at best.
The title grows to encompass the tenuous divisions between art making and commerce, collectors and institutions, "good" and "bad" art.
But Ferrero also challenged that assertion, arguing that this claim was tenuous, as far as recent health research was concerned.
Yorke's tenuous relationship with rest haunts ANIMA, a Carl Jung-inspired album that combats the fugue state of modern existence.
An important foundation for prevention has been developed, but without congressional action it remains tenuous and difficult to build upon.
A couple of hours earlier, when Bauer had walked so morosely off the mound, things had looked tenuous for Cleveland.
Historical anniversaries Lastly, let us mark our tenuous, yet immortal hope for the future by looking back at the past.
The statewide wolf population at the time was only 81 animals, with only four breeding pairs, statewide numbers were tenuous.
Silas is a charming, struggling writer — closer to Casey's age and living a tenuous, yearning life much like her own.
If the print side of Advance Publications is on tenuous footing, the situation is less dire for the Newhouse family.
As tenuous as he can sometimes feel, he is certain he knows the narrative about himself that will eventually prevail.
Its brazen effort might seem tenuous or pretentious if not guided by good faith and exemplified powerfully in sundry titles.
"[The demonstrations] show that Law and Justice's control over the country is more tenuous than they would like," he said.
I see people using iPhones or TapeACall, and those things are so unreliable-seeming and tenuous I can't bear it.
The White House could try to bypass Congress on capital gains indexing, but it would be a legally tenuous move.
Their tenuous prosperity is built on selling food from the United States, and their diet is both sustenance and curse.
I had become a cliché, defining a community I barely understood along the tenuous lines of race, class, and consumption.
Instead, they're introduced through a panorama of character studies — tentative, tenuous and stray observations of people humbled by their emotions.
Over the past year, piecemeal cease-fires between the government and Sudan's various rebel movements have delivered a tenuous peace.
This is a tenuous position to hold, however, and it is causing rifts within the ranks of the Awami League.
But more so, while the ties between cleanliness and godliness are tenuous at best, cleanliness and sleepiness are certainly tethered.
JOE KERNEN: I don't think -- brush fires and climate change – that is not -- that's a tenuous link at this point.
With Quick slowly working his way back, Budaj has come to terms with his tenuous place as the Kings' starter.
Mr. de Blasio's insistence on marching was made somewhat more tenuous after the May 22 terrorist bombing in Manchester, England.
And while Cory Booker drew a connection between Harris's departure and a process warped by wealth, the link is tenuous.
On Wednesday, with the clock ticking down, a clearly frustrated McConnell called out Trump for complicating an already tenuous negotiation.
While they've since distanced themselves from Mensch, it's the kind of tenuous connection that could play well come campaign season.
"It's a tenuous kind of subject, I suppose, because in many ways, it's not really representing real life," Pearce said.
For now, it does not appear that McGahn's fate in the White House is as tenuous as that of Kelly.
Those measures are intended to add more Republican votes in the House without upsetting the tenuous balance in the Senate.
In 2006, Hezbollah had a tenuous position in Lebanon's political landscape after the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
"The boundary between professional and personal life has become tenuous," and cases of burnout are becoming more prevalent, she said.
"It starts to get more tenuous, the wider the circle is for executive privilege," said a former senior administration official.
As the Knicks lurch toward the end of another disastrous season, Anthony's future with the organization seems tenuous at best.
That is why it's imperative to recognize that all the progress of the last 50 years is tenuous and fragile.
Pelosi's bid for speaker is looking less tenuous after Fudge dropped out, but she's not out of the woods yet.
The logic is tenuous, but defensible, at least so long as the world isn't in a state of extraordinary crisis.
The two flit and play on tenuous thresholds, darkness and comedy, delving into a man's pain and his fatalistic insanity.
The apparently mixed message failed to convince some investors, who saw it as too tenuous a commitment to more stimulus.
But few movements have let the smug tendency so corrupt them, or make so tenuous its case against its enemies.
Especially as a matter of international law, the administration's theory for why the United States will have authority to keep carrying out such operations indefinitely amounts to "a tenuous legal justification atop of another tenuous legal justification," said Jack Goldsmith, a Harvard Law School professor and former Justice Department lawyer in the Bush administration.
They represent starkly divergent developments that, while not suggestive of crisis at the doorstep, showcase the tenuous nature of global stability.
Fair enough, her relationship with Owen is tenuous right now, so she's ultrasensitive, but the look of panic on her face!
These new products come amid tenuous relationships with chip supplier Qualcomm, who is battling Apple over the royalty costs of chips.
Wages are falling, housing prices are soaring, for the many, debt is mounting and the prospect of secure employment remains tenuous.
The CRC wanted it bundled with something, and he was just relieved that vaping had a tenuous connection with clean air.
His rise to fame was particularly turbulent and full of burnout, and his relationship to his pushy father was pretty tenuous.
Numbers don't lie As the death toll continues to mount, maintaining support for arguments detailing long-term solutions becomes more tenuous.
Aside from outlining new policy, Sessions didn't miss the opportunity to rehash the tenuous link between violent crime and undocumented immigration.
Support for higher education is a bit more tenuous, with funding down nearly 15 percent in just the past five years.
Obama hopes the trip will further demonstrate the White House's commitment to improving the historically tenuous relationship between Cuba and America.
The first quiz question asked readers to compare their sex lives to other parts of life with some pretty tenuous analogies.
Still, whether members of the Rules and Bylaws Committee propose as aggressive a change already appears to be a tenuous proposition.
There's a tenuous connection between weed and weight loss Research suggests that experiences like mine and Brand's might not be unusual.
But those leads are tenuous enough that, more than in past races with similar national polling, Trump still has a chance.
But compared to the other options, all of which are expensive, it would be an investment in the state's tenuous future.
Uber, like other players in the gig economy, has a tenuous relationship with those who make a living from its software.
At the same time, his connection to figurative sculptors, such as Mary Frank or Stephen de Staebler, is tenuous at best.
Moreover, while the book runs for just over a century, we only see the beginnings of a tenuous existence for humanity.
Yes, but: This progress is tenuous, and one year will not make up for the 30-year rise in overdose deaths.
Even so, that satisfaction seems tenuous: 45% are concerned that a "major health event" in their families could lead to bankruptcy.
In parts of Libya that are still safe, security is maintained by competing militias connected in a tenuous set of alliances.
Experts worry Trump's rhetoric could hurt the US by feeding North Korean insecurities and adding instability to an already tenuous situation.
What was already a somewhat tenuous relationship between two men who could not be more different is even more awkward now.
Mere seconds after the bonding moment of surpassing a speeding train together, Brian and Dom's tenuous friendship is tested once again.
Such mental conditions are commonly at play in these kinds of attacks, even when the connection to terrorism is less tenuous.
For Clarise McCants, Color of Change's criminal justice campaign director, the tenuous freedom of probation and parole hits close to home.
If the marchers are protesting Trump's tenuous relationship with the truth, they need to be champions of truth themselves, he says.
The science linking Harvey to global warming is tenuous, however, but may be firmed up over time by peer reviewed studies.
Nevertheless, the relationship between the police and sex workers can approach a tenuous détente that allows the collectives to assert themselves.
The problem with having fuzzies in these processes is that it puts bosses in the tenuous position of being the judge.
Baker and Hogan's Democratic opponents tried in vain to link them to Trump by any possible association, no matter how tenuous.
Economic growth is a centerpiece of Republicans' efforts to maintain an increasingly tenuous grasp of control on the House and Senate.
We are talking about the man who is in charge of America's nuclear arsenal in an increasingly fraught and tenuous world.
But I took solace in knowing our aggressive approach was getting results, and that the Taliban's support was tenuous and weakening.
"Earlier on Wednesday, Trump discussed the tenuous trade war with China and bemoaned to reporters that it wasn't "my trade war.
Generally speaking, the line between controlled selection and untrammeled accretion is tenuous, as is any clear distinction between connoisseurship and pathology.
Given Mr. Trump's dismal standing with Latino voters, his prospects look tenuous in traditional swing states like Colorado, Florida and Nevada.
Early coverage of the oncoming storm has focused, under­standably, on the seemingly tenuous state of the levees alongside the Mississippi River.
He's in a very tenuous position, where it wouldn't take a lot more bad news for things to come crumbling apart.
In this 150-year timeframe, there's no period where political control has been as tenuous as in the last four decades.
Safe to say it will make the tenuous connection between Kendall and Gigi Hadid seem like a walk in the park.
If our digital screens are separating us from human interaction, you better believe AI will further tear that tenuous social fabric.
Israel and Gaza militant forces reached a tenuous apparent ceasefire on Monday after intense fighting over the weekend left dozens dead.
The episode demonstrates just how tenuous it can be to alter the foundations of monetization systems that independent creators rely on.
Officials have also questioned Russia's commitment to a Syrian ceasefire, which is in a tenuous state since starting late last month.
That's not all:The final regulation took a few other shots at hospitals, but those policies are on similarly tenuous legal ground.
But as his 2020 White House campaign appears increasingly tenuous, it's time to start thinking about socialism in America post-Bernie.
It should be obvious that a hope for peace, no matter how tenuous, is more welcome than the threat of war.
I think that some of the entry phrases' relationships to film were a little bit tenuous, but clever enough to pass.
Last month, Iran breached the limits set by the 2015 agreement, making the future of the international pact even more tenuous.
The job of commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department has proved to be one of the most tenuous in the country.
Paramount has delivered nine consecutive quarters of improved financial results for Viacom, its corporate owner, but a turnaround is still tenuous.
But his prospects in those states appear increasingly tenuous as Biden has reclaimed his position as the primary race's front-runner.
The movie won tenuous praise from critics — more for nailing the blockbuster genre than for cinematic craft — and raves from audiences.
"This level of economic growth is no reason to celebrate," he said, adding a full recovery was still distant and tenuous.
The allegations are likely to further strain what is already an extremely tenuous relationship between the president and the intelligence community.
But as the Jewish population of the Lower East Side aged and died or departed, the synagogue's existence became increasingly tenuous.
Klotz's defense was patchy, tenuous, and rooted largely in speculation, but it could be enough to withstand the government's meagre evidence.
"I really fear what that does to their sense of hope, which can be tenuous to students anyway," Mr. Luft said.
While Democrats could struggle to hold some of their more tenuous seats — like those won narrowly in 2018 by now-Reps.
SoftBank, the Japanese group Mr Son controls, and the VF then gave the firm $4.4bn, despite its tenuous claim to techiness.
Privately, several Pentagon officials acknowledged that their position was tenuous, since Congress would ultimately have to agree to replace the funds.
Yet, thanks to plenty of saved capital, the city should be able to navigate the tenuous period, according to the report.
While Dilma's impeachment may not have been a "coup," its legitimacy from a legal standpoint was tenuous at the very best.
The president narrowly won his recently declared home state in 20043, and he maintains a tenuous 22004 percent approval rating here.
As her coinage suggests, this once large swath of the population is narrowing, its members finding their financial situation increasingly tenuous.
Once he wrote in the margin of one of Strout's manuscripts that "perhaps this is a somewhat tenuous connection," he recalled.
Chinese officials are leery of continued talks, since they don't have to give up much under the current, albeit tenuous, agreement.
I used these different varnishes, like the nail polish, gel medium or even latex, to accentuate the tenuous presence of the subjects.
The camera has a vibration-free silent shutter, so taking shots in the wild or other tenuous scenarios won't be an issue.
"The diffuse ISM was historically considered too harsh and tenuous an environment for appreciable abundances of large molecules to occur," Cordiner said.
Party coalitions are so large and diverse (because we basically only have two for the whole country) that their binding is tenuous.
"The rationale for substantial gains from here seems kind of tenuous unless we can get a ramp up in revenue," he said.
Unless you were breaking up with someone, or waiting for news of a birth or death, your connection (pun intended) was tenuous.
It's not really a point of contention, and never is my tenuous status on the Jennings Verizon family plan actually in jeopardy.
The racial overtones of Mr Trump's appeals are hard to miss, as is their tenuous relationship with basic principles of electoral democracy.
After 13.8bn years of the expansion of space since the Big Bang happened, cosmological gravitational waves would now be tenuous things indeed.
But I also have to say, having been divorced myself, there were times when my relationships with my children were very tenuous.
Chinese officials and academics, especially those with a reformist bent, were acutely aware of their tenuous grasp on economics at the time.
The attacks are designed to prove that the American "puppet government" under Mr Ghani has only a tenuous hold over the country.
The separation between Sanders and Our Revolution, structured as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, has always been a tenuous and fluid one.
However, this in itself indicates a tenuous level of support and any recovery in the relationship will be slow and half-hearted.
Large firms made high-profile acquisitions of property, sports teams, film companies and other assets with tenuous connections to their core activities.
It feels like a tenuous acknowledgement of the crushing responsibility of being young, Black, and outspoken in a place like St. Louis.
Full-on democratic collapse tends to occur in recently established, relatively impoverished democracies, in which civilian control of the military is tenuous.
ITT's own documents showed that its tenuous bachelor's degrees were sold for as much as $90,000 while the school was in operation.
This "uncertainty" combined with a small number -- just 25 -- of cannabis-using patients makes the results "really tenuous at best," he said.
All those tenuous threads finally snapped, culminating in a massive fire and a hasty escape, facilitated, once again, by the resourceful Strand.
Inspired by the traumatic and tenuous aftermath of the birth of his son, Kevin Richard Martin's new record is tense and harrowing.
With three weeks until the Iowa caucuses, Trump is trying to break Ted Cruz's tenuous grip on first place in the state.
He compared that campaign to the tobacco industry's bid to convince the public that the link between smoking and cancer was tenuous.
This should frighten all of us as potentially pernicious to the tenuous détente reached between communities and those sworn to protect them.
Hamid's innocent questions about his father and Abhay's increasing frustration with his job merge to form a tenuous connection between the two.
Continuing caution over Detroit reflects concern that while the city is heading in the right direction its financial condition is still tenuous.
The curation feels tenuous and sparse, preventing greater works from artists like Libby Rothfeld, Julien Ceccaldi, and Sam Lipp from taking flight.
A member of Congress playing a wink-and-nod game with mob violence lends a dangerous legitimacy to an already-tenuous situation.
Civility, always a tenuous thing, cannot be quickly restored in a society that has learned to hate in public, at full throttle.
The idea that startup founders are infallible looks more tenuous amid tales of excess and bad judgement at some high-profile firms.
But the usefulness of such measures appears doubtful, since many of those who have struck had only tenuous relations with official religion.
With orchestral music playing in the background, news clips of reporters asking about Brown's tenuous start with the Raiders begins to play.
It's hard to miss, that curvy, orange-tinged region of space forming what looks at this great distance like a tenuous connection.
In a sense, it represents the severing of my last tenuous connection with the institutions to which I dedicated my adult life.
It was Olbermann's review that mattered, though, and which set fire to the tenuous bridge between the troubled project and the studio.
They are released from the strictures of time and regimented life — but the reference to Johnson's politics feels tenuous, if not forced.
In an interview with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, s/he attempts to define intersectionality and its tenuous position in the art world.
Many fear that the American withdrawal will upend that tenuous balance and create a power vacuum, an opportunity for ISIS to return.
But rather than applauding the move, those who have been incensed by more tenuous conflicts are seething that Pruitt is cracking down.
And also tenuous, because it's often accompanied by an expectation that you have to assist friends and family who are less fortunate.
The legally tenuous maneuver would fulfill a long-held dream of many investors and conservatives — and face a near-certain court challenge.
But the report also recognizes how tenuous the strategy is, as any member can object to the request and derail the bill.
In contrast, clients in their mid to late 40s who have saved twice that amount may find their plan much more tenuous.
Then the life-saving monitors would hiss and pump, click and beep, and I would focus again on my own tenuous mortality.
The weeks leading up to last weekend's European Parliament election saw a poisoning of the already tenuous relationship between the coalition partners.
Some renters move in swearing they will never leave, only to find that their occupancy is as tenuous as their lease term.
A tenuous deal between Turkey and Russia was the only barrier to a Syrian government assault on Idlib Province, where he lived.
Verlander had allowed just one hit through five innings, but did not feel close to victory with a tenuous 27-21975 lead.
That ruling dealt a fresh blow to the tenuous relations between Moscow and Athens, which has long courted Russia as an ally.
Casey's job status was tenuous even before the start of Game 4, and so much of it was because of one man.
Mr. Macron, at the head of a fledgling political movement, marked a victory that was always as tenuous as it was momentous.
President Trump's unilateral withdrawal from the region quickly, and predictably, unraveled a tenuous peace on the volatile border between Syria and Turkey.
That's not all: The final regulation took a few other shots at hospitals, but those policies are on similarly tenuous legal ground.
But as the 2020 race accelerates he is in a tenuous position that means the Democratic nomination is an especially attractive prize.
But the Russian sphere of influence was tenuous: hundreds of thousands of square miles held by only 1,000 or so scattered colonists.
For most of that time, it effectively had no central government, followed by a government with a tenuous hold and limited power.
President Michel Temer's already tenuous political support evaporated within hours after recordings of his conversation with Joesley Batista, an agribusiness mogul, surfaced.
If Mr. Trump reneges on his predecessor's commitment, it could further fray a relationship that has become more tenuous since his election.
But a year later, his position as head of the legislature — and his claim to the presidency — appear to be increasingly tenuous.
After months of tenuous back-and-forth, West fired the management team handling the negotiation, and Shults had to start from scratch.
Since then, the Senate has also failed to push through a new health-care bill and the efforts continue to look tenuous.
To make matters more tenuous, global producers, subsidized by their own governments, were flooding the market, creating an unprecedented amount of oversupply.
Those parallels are tenuous at best, but early Superman's politics resonated (and still do) with the views of many liberal Jewish voters.
This tenuous détente is likely to last for a while as a stopgap measure, but it does little to resolve the tension.
Ghadhban's position as oil minister is also tenuous given Iraq's prime minister resigned last week and a new government will be formed.
For the generation of women who entered the work force during the financial crisis, a job and career can feel incredibly tenuous.
The Christian migrants in the United Arab Emirates have suffered their own human rights violations and tenuous labor conditions, Bishop Hinder said.
For many Asian Americans of my generation, this year has been a powerful reminder of our awkward, tenuous position in American society.
When IS captured the city last May regime, it was seen as a sign of the Syrian government's increasingly tenuous military position.
Not having someone permanently in charge of the State Department, especially given tenuous situations in Iran, North Korea, and Syria, is obviously problematic.
It takes the momentum that makes the hurricanrana remotely plausible and... replaces them with an even more tenuous grasp on your opponent's head?
The Social Democratic Party's place within the coalition is also looking tenuous with voters appearing to punish it for not remaining in opposition.
And it&aposs part of this pathological Mueller investigation that they can&apost let go of the more and more tenuous it become.
There's a trust -- however tenuous given the unpredictability of the man in the Oval Office -- that aides say could result in transformative change.
"Pushing these people back just to make a point when the security situation remains tenuous is a terrible idea," one diplomat told Reuters.
In the end, it seems that the link between Californium and PKD is tenuous, although I'm sure it did wonders for marketing purposes.
While the ties to international terrorist cells are more tenuous in this case, it is clear that extremist beliefs played a crucial role.
The Sunni monarchs and dictators keep a tenuous control on their Sunni populace: Each time one falls, terror that threatens the west ensues.
Given their tenuous, always contested position in the American political economy, absent the active support of the federal government for unions, they wither.
Valencia is only halfway through its league schedule, so its hold on first place — just ahead of Sunday's opponent from Catalonia — is tenuous.
Whether intentional or not, Splinter's decision to publish Miller's number illustrates the tenuous position Twitter is in after years of arbitrary rule enforcement.
"The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition," President Trump tweeted last week.
Fraught relationship The relationship between Trump and Priebus has been tenuous almost since Trump announced his campaign, including periods of disagreement and détente.
WeWork, a real estate business with a tenuous claim on being a tech company, might be imploding, but tech real estate is thriving.
The advance so far is being hailed a success, but the gains are small and the troops' hold on the area is tenuous.
Japan, cowering under a mammoth public-debt pile, is weighing raising its consumption tax, though the last rise strangled a tenuous economic recovery.
Similarly, reports of tensions between Harry and William — sparked, it seems, by Harry and Markle's move to Windsor Castle — are tenuous at best.
Northwestern kept its tenuous NCAA Tournament hopes alive with a 60-52 Big Ten victory over Wisconsin on Thursday night at Kohl Center.
With that split, any tenuous alliance that may have existed in America's political far right is now rapidly waning, along with its membership.
Hempstead, New York (CNN)Donald Trump's tenuous relationship with the truth didn't stop at the doors of the first presidential debate of 20063.
And while President Trump has plenty of enemies, it's no secret that his personal relationships are fraught, or predicated on tenuous business dealings.
But others see it as an ambitious and bold move that could potentially lead to some kind of tenuous peace for the country.
"Even if flows fail to materially increase in each country, we reiterate our view that the oil price recovery is tenuous," they added.
That doesn't mean the console — if it's real — isn't coming out in the U.S., it just further reinforces how tenuous any speculation is.
That is unlikely to happen, but, given the tenuous control of GOP leaders over the party on Capitol Hill, there are no guarantees.
With the DB11, Aston has doubled down on continuing the lineage of the V12 engine, which, until this moment, seemed tenuous at best.
The communication channel is a relic of the coldest days of the Cold War; another reminder of how tenuous global stability has become.
Anyways, uh, the point is that PETA's relationship to Naruto is extremely tenuous and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has taken note.
There's also more tenuous, or impossible love (the kind you go all in for anyway), like every song from A Star Is Born.
But CNN's most recent poll in the Silver State put Trump way ahead of the field, with Rubio in a tenuous second place.
Astronomers have long suspected the missing matter sits in threads of gas between galaxies, but it's hard to detect because it's very tenuous.
Social Security is in a tenuous position, and while it may work out fine, it's not wise for us to count on it.
The wait staff's grasp of the menu was tenuous at best, and while servers were friendly, they seemed to be a bit distracted.
The expected gathering of industry officials with Trump would follow a tenuous period in the relationship between technology companies and the White House.
The conceit that activism ties these people together is tenuous, and in its absence, the thing they have left in common is trauma.
This was a populace that had no history of effecting change, and the faith in it, when it came, was tenuous unless absolute.
Following decades of civil war, the business elites' commitment to democratic institutions in Guatemala has been tenuous, and this could destroy it entirely.
However, as US President Donald Trump's attention drifts and Chinese leader Xi Jinping grows more powerful, Singapore finds itself in a tenuous position.
The situation becomes somewhat more complex when speakers from outside the university, with only tenuous connections to the community, are invited to talk.
Some figure they have a better chance at finding opportunities in the capital than in a small town where they have tenuous connections.
Why it matters: Many Western observers dismiss the Xi-Putin bromance as a tenuous friendship that poses no real challenge to the West.
To classify one artwork as better than another has been a resolute taboo throughout recent art history, making it an arguably tenuous choice.
We also already have good reason to conclude that heritable genome modification is unacceptably risky and that medical justifications for it are tenuous.
But Iran's compliance is tenuous, and further belligerence from the US could give Tehran a reason to stop abiding by the deal's limitations.
Or maybe one of your friends is droning on about how they don't like Nothing because of tenuous ties to other problematic bands?
And though many fashion shows and private dinners had an at-best tenuous connection to the actual art, it all looked, well, marvelous.
In 2017 we learned how tenuous our hold was on the truth, how unrepentant the president is for his mountain of baldfaced lies.
The Saints (10-4) needed to beat the Jets (5-493) to maintain their tenuous hold on first place in the N.F.C. South.
Francis is not expected to meet with the North Macedonian Orthodox Primate Stephen in an effort to avoid aggravating an already tenuous relationship.
But other proposals are similar to ones the same industries have pushed for years and have only a tenuous connection to the pandemic.
But the path for a full U.S. withdrawal remains tenuous, with some of the potential pitfalls presenting themselves just days into the deal.
The heartbreak of courageous movements that failed — as they did in Egypt, Yemen and, most tragically, Syria — underscores how tenuous gains can be.
The steel tariffs, while tenuous on economic grounds, turn out to be so exemption-ridden as to matter little for the U.S. economy.
Mr. Birney, a recent Tony winner for "The Humans," inhabits and fills Ken's tenuous world with a paradoxically commanding air of self-effacement.
Priebus left the White House in July after several months in which his future as President Trump's chief of staff often appeared tenuous.
Overall, he found, "middle-income neighborhoods are tenuous," while neighborhoods at the top and bottom of the economic ladder have remained strikingly stable.
Hunter has faced a backlash over his legal woes and found himself in an increasingly tenuous position in Congress following his guilty plea.
More important, Nevada exposed his four main rivals as weak, divided, and grasping at increasingly tenuous arguments about how they can still win.
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).
The progress officials have made is tenuous: A power line there briefly failed on Thursday, leaving many cities, including the capital, without power.
But that accusation ignores the truth, which, as we all know, is a concept with which Trump and Republicans have a tenuous relationship.
This push comes at a tenuous moment for Apple, as it grapples with the fact that its core iPhone business is in decline.
Though the military advances were tenuous, government forces said that Tuesday represented a critical moment in their weekslong offensive to retake western Mosul.
But he did not rule out the possibility that some members in swing districts could get cold feet, citing tenuous public opinion polls.
That's when sincerity meets the absurd and the already tenuous belief one has in the validity of an anonymous online posting is tested.
History shows us that presidents and presidential candidates have a tenuous relationship with the truth when it comes to their personal health details.
After all, it's always been a tenuous argument that the repeal, signed by Hillary Clinton's husband Bill during his presidency, caused the financial crisis.
Michelle Jones's experience of marginalization unveils the tenuous predicament of minority students who make their way (or don't) into the elite world of academia.
That may have more to do with Romney's tenuous connection to Utah than with the criticism he has expressed of candidate and President Trump.
The origins of Shulkin's tenuous position inside the Trump administration date back to the scandals that rocked the VA health system in early 2014.
A series of bizarre murders in the neighborhood and Sapana's tenuous link with one of the victims adds to the twist in the story.
Like graffiti, the art world's interest and commodification of skateboarding is often tenuous, as both disciplines are based on rule breaking and freeform expression.
It is important to understand, however, that the tenuous situation surrounding the dam and its spillways was not a danger that cropped up overnight.
Aim straight for Taylor's tenuous relationship with their father, Douglas (Kevin Pollack), by forcing Taylor to sell out the IP to his aerospace tech.
But Observer, a cyberpunk meditation on the frailty of perception and the tenuous bonds that tie people together, made me question my own eyes.
The tenuous nature of the deal struck by the campaigns should have been evident by the involvement of the candidates themselves: virtually non-existent.
Unfortunately, she got tangled in the tenuous power struggle between Varys and Littlefinger, and ends up betraying the latter and paying with her life.
The role facts play in both the fortunes of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is not even tenuous; their effect has been relatively zero.
Instead, he settled on this answer … 'In the work of Detroit artists, there appears to be a tenuous and tentative bond: that of assemblage.
Hit and miss suggestions Testing the app out ahead of launch, the predictions seemed a tad tenuous and/or hit and miss at times.
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's tenuous 3-percentage-point national lead when the conventions began is now a durable 8-point national lead, and growing.
The movie does not shy away from depicting the harsh reality of this dubious couple, plainly depicting their tenuous and, at times, abusive relationship.
On Sunday, Last Week Tonight host John Oliver gave perhaps the best description so far of Donald Trump's tenuous relationship with the Republican establishment.
Still, the Trump administration, with the support of a Republican-controlled House and Senate, could, and almost certainly will, ignore the tenuous climate agreement.
If, however, Republicans do hold on to their tenuous two-seat margin in the House, they are expected to use it to full effect.
But as new US President Donald Trump's attention drifts and Chinese leader Xi Jinping grows more powerful, Singapore finds itself in a tenuous position.
Growth is certainly slowing, but the problem with this view is that the Chinese stockmarket has only ever had a tenuous relationship with reality.
One of those identities was the source of a tenuous but alluring connection to Satoshi: a diplomatic passport from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
"The rationale for this purchase, supposed to create an integrated clean energy company, seems somewhat tenuous to us," said Emmanuel Rosner, analyst at CLSA.
Luca Guadagnino, Call Me By Your NameChristopher Nolan, DunkirkAlexander Payne, Downsizing Both Aronofksy and Payne's projects sound super weird, so they're both tenuous here.
With the world at peace, Rowling uses the book to show how tenuous their world is, and how it could have been extremely different.
If you, like many of us, sometimes find that you have a tenuous grasp on your finances, there are ways to avoid the fees.
The proposed peacekeeping force will join the UN's 12,000-strong mission already on the ground to maintain a tenuous peace deal signed last year.
Last month, Mukasey said in a statement, "Joel and Wikistrat have only a tenuous connection to the special counsel's investigation and are cooperating fully."
Islamic Jihad and Israel declared a halt to fighting across Gaza on Thursday but a lasting ceasefire appeared tenuous as they differed on terms.
While the links between violent video games and violent behavior are tenuous at best, there are genuine issues in the industry that need addressing.
"Security conditions are tenuous inside both IDP [internally displaced persons] camps and pop-up prisons," the final report for the Syria Study Group reads.
The tenuous relationship has been evident as US forces struggled to establish a "safe zone" buffer in northern Syria between the Kurds and Turkey.
Party divisions, rapidly changing demographics and a very fervent and ardent opposition remain dangerous threats to the GOP's tenuous hold on national political power.
Maduro has sought to show that the military remains on his side, but opposition leaders and U.S. officials have said that support is tenuous.
Many economists have attributed the weakness in the yuan to dollar strengthening globally, but that hasn't tempered depreciation fears amid a tenuous economic recovery.
So these creatures have these pathetic, tenuous lives, which revolve entirely around sex—isn't it kind of mean to deprive the triploid of that?
That deal is looking increasingly tenuous, and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany called last weekend for an end to negotiations with Turkey, infuriating Ankara.
And investors are concerned that tenuous signs of inflation could mean central banks around the world will start to remove their support even faster.
"All candidates need to back up their words with a concrete plan for action, especially given the tenuous thread by which reproductive freedom hangs."
"Our baby daughter is due this August," I have finally been able to tell people, after the tenuous early months when this felt unutterable.
Queerness has never been more visible, more trending and more in demand and yet, our lives and our livelihood feel extremely tenuous and fragile.
The connection between a three-course meal (star: roast beef salad) and a play about a newscaster going bonkers (star: Bryan Cranston) is tenuous.
Success with containment could be tenuous, and the world could remain on a kind of indefinite lockdown until a vaccine or treatment is found.
Coach Luke Walton's job status is tenuous at best, and 10 players on the current roster do not have guaranteed deals for next season.
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions had a tenuous hold on his job when President Trump called him at home in the middle of 2017.
The Aggies came into Saturday's title game in a tenuous spot for an at-large berth at No. 43 in the NCAA NET rankings.
And for just a moment, a low-pay, tenuous job at Berry's seems, in contrast, like a pretty good way to make a living.
The first of those was tenuous on its own, said Ms. Brown, who is now an analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Before the rally, Mr. Parnas shook hands with the candidate and told him about a long-ago, if tenuous, connection to the Trump family.
Their results, published this year in Nature Human Behavior, found only a tenuous relationship between adolescent well-being and the use of digital technology.
Even so, studies show that e-commerce actually creates less of a carbon footprint than brick-and-mortar stores, although it's a tenuous edge.
This falls in line with what former detainees now living abroad have told us about the often tenuous reasons they were sent to camps.
Miller Tabak equity strategist Matt Maley, who correctly called last year's bottom and rebound, says history also suggests a tenuous position for Tesla's shares.
Mr. Ghani and Mr. Abdullah have coexisted in a tenuous unity government that was cobbled together with American help after the disputed 2014 election.
Most did not want to attack Soleimani in Iraq, given the presence of U.S. troops there and the already tenuous situation on the ground.
Women and girls face disproportionate harm from climate change because it is a powerful "threat multiplier," making already tenuous situations or existing vulnerabilities worse.
Flynn, who was the intelligence director for the NATO&aposs coalition in Afghanistan, had a tenuous relationship with the Obama administration at the time.
Nonetheless, it's important not to forget the big picture: In today's economy many jobs are tenuous, and millions of workers are experiencing wage stagnation.
Meanwhile, we have continued to dump American blood and massive amounts of money into Afghanistan with only a tenuous stalemate to show for it.
At first, the connections to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' landmark graphic novel and director Zack Snyder's flawed but ambitious 2009 movie seemed tenuous.
But Parker could not finish the opportunity as Lee swatted away his layup and maintained the Knicks' tenuous advantage, at least for a moment.
Rosengren said he is worried that lower rates could put the economy on more tenuous ground by encouraging people and firms to borrow excessively.
With the tenuous present moment—which Roth couldn't have predicted when he wrote his novel—this miniseries goes even darker than its source material.
My own connection to mass shootings is a tenuous one, but it is one that affects my work as a museum professional and critic.
VICE: Saying a specific ideology is relevant to this Waffle House shooting is tough, because the connection to the chief suspect seems so tenuous.
Introducing a standalone relief bill into this packed schedule, as Trump advocated earlier this week, could throw an already tenuous legislative schedule out of whack.
Given the (increasingly) tenuous legal status of cannabis in the US, Bricken sees Facebook's attitude toward pot as a matter of shutting down political speech.
On the flip side, for Apple, a 1 percent improvement to Siri has a much weaker and tenuous relationship with how many iPhones are sold.
From the moment the blue wall crumbled and formerly safe states flipped to Donald Trump, the left has had a tenuous grasp on political reality.
Amid a tenuous market, AMZN's missed sales and EBIT ( despite lowered expectations ) and a below-Street guide, proved enough to weigh on shares after market.
Many industry watchers say Ghosn has been the glue holding together a tenuous alliance between French automaker Renault and Japanese car companies Nissan and Mitsubishi.
At some points, mostly when exposition is necessary, the balance seems tenuous —but Castle Rock boasts some incredible performances that help smooth the show's seams.
What has been equally evident in this huge uptick has been the fact that the rationale for a new valuation paradigm has been somewhat tenuous.
Its link to voters is tenuous: turnout in European elections is low and falling, and voters tend to decide largely on national not European issues.
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.
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.
Others have argued that the show is exploitative and Taberski is using his tenuous connection as a "friend" of Simmons to create a hit show.
The energy situation in Australia might be tenuous — but it's a stretch to start calling for a future filled with Warboys and Thunderdomes right now.     
The report underscores the tenuous nature of Clinton's efforts to convince Americans to entrust the White House to Democrats for another four or eight years.
As authors' lives go, Tolkien's was eventful, and the connections between his biography and work aren't as tenuous as they are in so many biopics.
The tenuous ceasefire in Syria appears to have collapsed following this attack and the earlier one that killed 62 Syrian army soldiers in Deir Azzor.
Our working day was saved but we had come face-to-face with the tenuous nature of the supposedly frictionless operations of het nieuwe werken.
Seoul-based artist Suki Seokyeong Kang's objects seem poised on the verge of becoming activated, in a tenuous space between what is aesthetic and utilitarian.
Drop Dead Gorgeous expertly toes the lines between reality and fiction with its mockumentary format, as well as the tenuous rhythm of a dark comedy.
He's is speaking, broadly, of the tenuous state of geopolitics in our current moment, but he also has feelings about other less obvious societal forces.
Although they each come back, the series no longer depicts an unshakable quartet, but the random, tenuous sorts of ties that connect us in reality.
Several studies have asked whether student debt is nudging youngsters to put off marriage vows and stick to birth control, but the link seems tenuous.
In all, this is a tenuous time for the tech industry, and it might mean the beginning of the end for this current boom cycle.
Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) has extended its reach through tenuous local alliances, and struggled to control parts of the east despite support from abroad.
His tenuous freedom is granted to him by Mr. Bridge, a shadowy figure with the federal marshals, who has hired him to track escaped slaves.
Thomas was deeply critical of his colleagues and said that a "tenuous connection" to a "politically fraught issue," does not justify "abdicating our judicial duty."
He was cut a few weeks into the season—an introduction to the business of pro football, where jobs are tenuous and contracts aren't guaranteed.
"The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition," Trump wrote in a tweet Monday morning.
But much of this feels tenuous, the sort of material an editor commonly asks for, reproaching a writer because her manuscript is Not Personal Enough.
That would complicate an already tenuous cap situation, and might make it even more likely that Stamkos has played his last game for the franchise.
She learned Bengali first, from her parents, but her grasp on it remains tenuous: She speaks with an accent and does not write in it.
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.
There is also fear that a trade bill, which has tenuous support in both chambers and which Mr. Obama greatly desires, would sail through Congress.
Clinton's growing lead in the polls, her campaign to defeat Mr. Trump with early get-out-the-vote efforts is advancing along a tenuous path.
The hiring could fray Trump's already tenuous relationship with GOP leaders, and has put Republican lawmakers on high alert over the direction of the campaign.
The tweets are the latest salvos from the president in an ongoing Twitter storm surrounding the tenuous Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.
Everywhere I turn are reminders of life's tenuous nature: blood pressure machines, orange cylinders of medication, genetic testing, ultrasounds and EKGs of my children's hearts.
On top of his own negative track record on race, Farr has been nominated for a judicial seat that has a long and tenuous history.
The break with Amazon and the lack of interest in his memoir from several major publishers highlight how tenuous his once hallowed position has become.
Even that figure relies on counting replacement projects as new wall, on contracts that have yet to be awarded and on funding that is tenuous.
In the sea of viral clips of Alex Jones, he always appears larger than life — and, crucially, in tenuous control of whatever narrative he's spinning.
"Prediction, in general, so far as these diseases are concerned, is a tenuous proposition, more likely to yield false confidence than actionable intelligence," writes Quammen.
"'Public space' as both a concept and reality has a tenuous history, particularly what types of people and activities are allowed for," Mx. Field said.
And I have been reading and writing ever since — not simply to survive but to carve out my own tenuous place on this unsteady earth.
While the territory of the Islamic State's self-declared "caliphate" has been wrested from the group, the security situation in much of Syria remains tenuous.
Trump has mobilized the white identity electorate, and in doing so has put the tenuous American commitment to racial and ethnic egalitarianism on the line.
"Their ability to get away with the things that they've done is threaded together by a very worn and tenuous sweater of lies," McGorry explains.
The already tenuous ice on Hosmer Pond, a 54-acre body of water, began to melt, worrying the planners, the would-be participants and me.
Taliban leaders know that accepting any of those concessions could jeopardize their tenuous control of the movement, potentially snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Such a move has at best a tenuous basis in law and none in logic, and it will burn through federal funds better spent elsewhere.
His church is one of a number in China that have resisted government oversight, opting for a tenuous independence, often moving premises and risking closure.
Ms. Ndiaye is still employed by the school, though she said she felt her position was tenuous because of her close relationship with Mr. Burns.
Even after the peace negotiations stopped in September following a spike in Taliban violence, Mr. Khalilzad continued his shuttle diplomacy to preserve this tenuous opportunity.
Their tenuous situation has been aggravated in recent months by open warfare between Myanmar's military and another ethnic group native to the state, the Rakhine.
Mr. Gentiloni's support in Parliament could be tenuous, and it could last only as long as the internal maneuvers in Italy's quarrelsome political parties allow.
The case's connection to Hampden, a rapidly evolving neighborhood in North Baltimore, is a tenuous one: Mr. Jackson's most recent address was a rowhouse here.
But even as the drama in Peru's Congress halted the upheaval of ousting the country's leader, it also revealed the president's tenuous hold on power.
Mr. Sánchez has a tenuous grip on power, at the helm of a Socialist party that controls only one quarter of the seats in Parliament.
The raids have done significant damage to the already tenuous relationship between immigrant communities and local law enforcement, making immigrants — and all Americans — less safe.
It makes sense for Pelosi to throw this sort of rhetorical grenade then, given her current somewhat tenuous position within her own caucus on Trump's impeachment.
The line between private and public property can seem tenuous in the digital age, but this one thing should be clear: Your photos are your own.
If a U.S. trade ban caused the company to fold, it's easy to see how that could severely impact already tenuous relations between the two countries.
Sometimes the missing's links to the living are tenuous, and the agency has to enlist genealogists to find relatives who can supply DNA samples for comparison.
This had the effect of expanding the war from two enemies into a war with dozens, many of which had only tenuous ties to 22001/93.
But we wanted to be sure to be attentive to the historical reality which would demonstrate that women students occupied a tenuous role within the institution.
"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.
Headed into season eight, Tyrion is still advising Dany, but he seems to be in a tenuous position as Dany's relationship with Jon Snow grows stronger.
Given that, for court now, to say no, all of this evidence of possibly of wrongdoing, or whatever yields to very tenuous claims of executive privilege.
A jingoist Uncle Sam tethers his and a second balloon — blank, as Trump is a one man band — by a slender, tenuous, and easily ruptured restraint.
By saying criticism comes from all-sides with Facebook in the middle instead of directly rebuking the President's statement, Zuckerberg puts Facebook in a tenuous situation.
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.
In case you forgot what a tenuous position we left Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen, Cersi Lannister and the rest in, it all comes flooding back—fast.
I'm thankful that I can say that my relationship with my mother has never been as tenuous as the one depicted on screen in Lady Bird.
To a press corps frustrated with Spicer's aggressive attacks on reporters and tenuous relationship with the facts, the press secretary's imminent demise is a compelling narrative.
Neutrinos eschew the strong and electromagnetic forces, maintaining only the most tenuous of ties to the rest of the universe through the weak force and gravity.
Mercer and Marcus have struck something of a tenuous political alliance, even though they themselves are not personally close, according to people familiar with their relationship.
"You don't mess with the criminal justice system in this way ... the President is on very tenuous ground here," Ben-Veniste told CNN's Don Lemon Friday.
Protests erupted in the capital city of Bujumbura in April 203 after President Pierre Nkurunziza announced he would seek a constitutionally tenuous third term in power.
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.
Another strategy that governments take — both historically and in the past few months — is to take aim at the somewhat tenuous First Amendment right to anonymity.
Toni Erdmann, a breakout at Cannes, screened at Fantastic Fest this year, even though it's a family dramedy, without even a tenuous connection to genre film.
We've seen our fair share of shocking headlines recently: tenuous IPOs, the "retailpocalypse" and a fickle market have reset the way we size up subscription businesses.
While Korea's reunification remains tenuous, and her ties to her family will likely stay broken, my grandma preserved something special from our pre-war Korean heritage.
It's also a hell of a lot more helpful than whining about the tenuous links between games and real world violence after every new mass shooting.
All of that has hit the European economy in one of its most vital sectors, tourism, just as a tenuous recovery was starting to take hold.
A similar uptick would be bad news for Republicans; a bigger one would start to make Mr. Trump's path to victory in Florida look very tenuous.
They can lean hard into the "no collusion" finding, which in turn makes it easier to argue that any Democratic-led probes are partisan and tenuous.
Kansas City's title defense is on tenuous ground, as the Royals sit fourth in the American League Central largely because of a 16-31 road mark.
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.
The article also stresses that the CIA supplying any more powerful weapons is a "Plan B" if the tenuous cease-fire and peace talks completely collapse.
He is not alone in that reckoning, although many people in both parties declined to be quoted by name given the tenuous politics of the issue.
New Horizons had already discovered haze in Pluto's tenuous atmosphere, rising more than 120 miles into the sky and separated into at least 24 distinct layers.
There is no excuse to be made for this, but a reason for it might have been that the existence of communities considered heretical was tenuous.
Political plight Though Trump's address did not mention his own tenuous political plight, it was impossible to separate it from the riotous political climate in Washington.
Even as the camps fill with water and the health and safety situations become tenuous, the recent rains are only a foreshadowing of things to come.
If you have any allegiance, however tenuous, to Stella's viewpoint, which many critics support in one way or another, you are likely to misunderstand Barré's work.
It has millions of fans, a minimal number of them involved in gang activity, and the correlation between listening to drill and committing violence is tenuous.
Undaunted, researchers looked into whether probiotics might be beneficial in a host of disorders, even when the connection to gut health and the microbiome was tenuous.
"(Purnama's) prosecution showed non-Muslims and many Muslims that the freedoms of expression and religion in Indonesia are tenuous," New York-based Human Rights Watch said.
In "Athena," Gracie Gardner's fierce and lovely comedy at Jack, two high school épée fencers forge a tenuous friendship, advancing and retreating as they train together.
Mr. Atencio acknowledged that the country was passing through a tenuous, challenging moment but said that changes in political systems were always hard and required perseverance.
Success with containment can be tenuous, and the world may have to remain on a kind of indefinite lockdown until a vaccine or treatment is developed.
Success with containment could be tenuous, and the world may have to remain on a kind of indefinite lockdown until a vaccine or treatment is found.
Though he said he expected to be fine after skipping one start, his explanation of his condition made it clear just how tenuous his health remains.
Could Charter officials have quashed such coverage out of concern that it might anger Mr. Cuomo, and thus jeopardize its already tenuous relationship with the state?
The eight-day-old at the heart of it all, Sasha, was mercifully sleeping, wrapped against Ms. Spadola's chest, but everyone knew the peace was tenuous.
As provocative and often entertaining as these and his more personal observations are, their connection to the emergence of "the grid" is often tenuous at best.
While the end of his tenure came amidst an apparently tenuous relationship with superstar quarterback Aaron Rodgers, the duo worked well together in their early seasons.
The margins in space are so thin, the hold so tenuous that unnecessary requirements can mean the difference between success and never taking flight at all.
Beyoncé considers herself a feminist, but for black women feminism can be a tenuous balancing act—advocating for women's rights while supporting black men against racism.
The party's hold on power is tenuous, and if even a few of its lawmakers joined in a vote of no confidence, they could topple him.
But many analysts and business leaders now see Xi's faith in markets as tenuous, and that 2013 reform pledge as a mere holdover from his predecessors.
Hundreds of people were killed, mostly at churches and hotels, in attacks that shattered a tenuous postwar peace and raised fears of retribution against innocent Muslims.
Bouake was at the epicenter of two major army mutinies this year that revealed President Alassane Ouattara's tenuous grasp on his military and associated armed groups.
The tenuous relationship here to the Kavanaugh story is simply to consider the way the cultural environment has evolved, perhaps especially in the last few years.
Further escalation has only been averted – for now – because Iran limited the proportionality of the strike and avoided U.S. casualties, but the situation remains extremely tenuous.
"This ring is so tenuous that even if you were standing in it, you would be hard pressed to see it in the optical," says Rebull.
On the other hand, relative to the enormous stakes involved, the paper just reveals how dreadfully thin and tenuous our knowledge of social tipping points is.
The consequences of an expanded ban might have serious repercussions globally, too: It could reverse recent, albeit tenuous, strides in diplomatic relations with the affected countries.
Less picturesque complexes, though, tend to be occupied by migrant workers, many of whom lack of residency permits, which makes the future of these homes tenuous.
Impeachments come at times of tumult, when pent-up pressures seem to explode into conflict, when the fabric of society feels tenuous and the future uncertain.
This is one of those situations where, even though we're looking at a tenuous rumor, the desire to believe it is enough to spark a conversation.
The Interpreter India may be reinterpreting its nuclear weapons doctrine, circumstantial evidence suggests, with potentially significant ramifications for the already tenuous nuclear balance in South Asia.
But the allegations from Ford, which snowballed into allegations from Deborah Ramirez and more, once again for a time threw the relationship into a tenuous place.
Now, global investors are viewing his rise as a key risk ahead of the election, which could shake up the already tenuous state of NAFTA renegotiations.
McMaster's relationship with Trump is said to be tenuous, though the president plans on keeping him in his NSC role, at least for the time being.
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.
Hip-hop has hit middle age, with rappers like Jay-Z and Kanye West pondering their longevity and tenuous places within the genre's hierarchy through rhyme.
Trump news was swirling, as always, dealings with Russia and North Korean standoffs, reality itself appearing as absurd, our grip on it as tenuous, as ever.
While the government maintained a heavily fortified but very tenuous presence in the provincial capital, the Communists owned the countryside and the allegiance of the people.

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