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If it is a strained relationship, if the connection between the idea and its object is tenuous, then we are dealing with an unclear idea.

Recently that tenuous partnership was frayed, causing some of those bubbles to pop loudly enough for the entire business to hear.

Swine flu looks likely to hold for the time being, though as it changes and spreads its connection to pigs will become increasingly tenuous.

I kept a tenuous connection with the History School , wrote my two essays a week , and attended an occasional lecture .

When a weak amateur with a great instrument meets up with a professional string player, the relationship often becomes tenuous.

"Social mood and risk appetite are what shape financial markets, and social mood at this point is tenuous, " Harrison said.

Clearly Josephson's overall grasp of science and cuisine (and web design) is tenuous, but he's still got a chance to turn things around.

reveals how a word can be transferred from one sphere of activity to another while retaining only a tenuous connection with its past.

However, fears remain that the tenuous pick-up in interest could reverse.

Was there a foundation for the tenuous , instinctive fears that I couldn't seem to shake?

The president, by contrast, has focused on locking in his tenuous gains, touting the outcome as a "ten to zero" landslide.

The idea is certainly appealing considering the fact that the world's rising oceans make on-shore resorts a bit tenuous.

It's a useful figure for the tenuous connections that complicate this tale and, ultimately, make a novel of it.

Dates are still pretty tenuous, but last month another Chinese space official said the country would send a man to the moon by 2025.

Although these two tyrants fought against a common foe, it was only a matter of time until their tenuous alliance collapsed.

The tenuous state of the chromosomes during the period between cell divisions should not suggest that they are inert at this time.

Two recent Australian and international studies suggest that the link between SHRM theory and practice is still somewhat tenuous.

Such links are tenuous, but so are those even between nearby villages in Europe, where different dialects can be largely incomprehensible.

In other words, the intersection between polite professionalism and honest conversation can be a tenuous crossroads.

These twin engines of global economic growth appear to be on a course that will only aggravate their tenuous relationship.

Every cubic kilometre of the ring contains around 20 tiny particles of dust, making it so tenuous, it would be invisible from the inside.

Iraq's WMD failed to materialise, and the links between al-Qaeda and Saddam's regime proved to be tenuous at best.

For this there is only tenuous empirical support when interest rates are close to zero.

Unfortunately, the relationship between natural justice and the law is sometimes tenuous, as it is in this case.

A shaft of light from a street lamp falls past tenuous bamboo railings onto a figure in a glittering white sari .

Here, delicate rings of colorful glowing gas ( nitrogen-red, hydrogen-green, and oxygen-blue) outline the tenuous walls of the hourglass.

Moreover , statistical research suggests that the link between spending and educational outcomes is tenuous .

Outages like this shake users' already tenuous faith in the reliability of services that hold their most important data files.

"I think all of us in this race are all holding our breath collectively one game after another because it is so tenuous, " he said.

Even at its most tenuous and hollowed out, he finds some shape, a sense of cyclic pattern.

Given globalization, the furious pace of mergers and acquisitions, and continuous cost pressures, job security is increasingly tenuous.

Dugongs are now legally protected throughout their range, but their populations are still in a tenuous state.

Kim Jong-il's death should not have come as a complete surprise to anyone, given his tenuous health.

Drug trafficking and human trafficking, already thriving in tenuous security conditions, will "indirectly affect us all. "

The banking system is dysfunctional. The central bank has only a tenuous hold on monetary policy.

With Jens Lehmann's Arsenal future a tenuous one, Arsene Wenger is rumoured to be considering a move for Cruzeiro goalkeeper Fabio.

The West Coast in the US is particularly tenuous, due to the fragility of the underground structure.

The African connection is rather tenuous, but it appears to be the most likely.

The ring itself is tenuous, made up of a thin array of ice and dust particles.

With Mr. Assad's hold on power appearing more tenuous by the day, the visit underscored Iran's increasingly dogmatic view of the conflict.

As tenuous as the current state-building is, it rests on the creation of institutions critical to any sustainable economy.

Do not allow investors to diversify the investment will be large swings in stock and plate in front of tenuous.

During interphase the chromosomes are too tenuous to be stained.

He followed the tenuous trail of the rainbow comet, a natural stellar phenomenon said to lead directly to Roon.

We both know how tenuous a relation there is between a man's intentions and the consequences of his acts.

Often, social discontent has begun in Russia's far-flung regions, where Kremlin control is comparatively tenuous.

Yemen's capital, San'a, was quiet on Tuesday but clashes erupted elsewhere in the country, underscoring the tenuous security situation.

During these tenuous times, a last ditch effort by Imperial loyalists employed an imposter as Grand Admiral Thrawn .

Historically, however, the linkage between high GDP growth and investment returns is tenuous.

With occupancy being the driver, that's the most tenuous of recoveries to have.

In the tribe regions, the North and West of the capital, the Pakistani army is loosing its tenuous grip.

Your argument is very tenuous, since it relies so much on speculations and hearsay.

The balance is tenuous, but right now it's working to his advantage.

The fighting comes after a tenuous week-old U. N. brokered cease-fire between rebels and government forces fell apart Sunday.

In only a tenuous sense, then, is E. coli a species in the way that, say humans or mice are species.

Mitra admits that the analogies between bird culture and human culture are tenuous.

If our self respect is based on the praise of others then our self respect will be very tenuous.

If Mr Lewis's grip on his job looks tenuous, his bank's grip on Merrill's talent is equally shaky.

Molecules in the more tenuous upper atmosphere are preferentially scattering blue light.

The high degree of integration envisioned in the R&D lab was tenuous at best inside most organizations.

As long as prices are falling, banks will take more losses, consumers will feel cautious and the economic recovery will be tenuous.

Political consequences may follow. Mrs Arroyo came to office in a "people-power" revolt in 2001 and her grip on power is tenuous.

This weak link can be even more tenuous than might first be apparent.

Hispanic schoolchildren who have gone through the program have a connection, however tenuous, with both Spanish and English.

On Thursday, officials said as many as 17 more people may have died, but they described the links to heparin as more tenuous.

But there are equally tenuous claims for a link between McCartney and Everton.

In spite of our feelings of invincibility and immortality, our existence is far more tenuous than we might think.

The most egregious excessive bonus payouts now include a tenuous link to performance.

In spite of our feelings of invincibility and immortality, our existence is far tenuous than we might think.

The key of processing tenuous hole by plain lathe is the design of clamping apparatus.

Of course any such label is tenuous; it is relative to many contexts and open to many interpretations.

"The linkage to performance is sometimes tenuous, " Dunn said.

Concentration of control of mass media has congealed at a tenuous time in American history.

The answer is that the ring is very tenuous, made up of a sparse collection of ice and dust particles.

This is a very tenuous situation and I am not updating about the risk of banks, social security checks and the like.

Since love is the most romantic , the deepest and the most tenuous poem , we are from here and end from some where unknown .

The stock market is simply too inefficient, and its links with the real economy too tenuous, to make this a good strategy.

Higher oil prices, among other things, could undo tenuous job gains.

For now, the link between shortened telomeres and aging is tenuous at best.

Time, however, made Reich's grasp on reality more tenuous, particularly after he fled to America in 1939.

But the NTC itself acknowledges that its legitimacy is tenuous.

The air at a great height is very tenuous.

Life on Earth, you see, is not only brief but dismayingly tenuous.

But now the relationship between value creation and job creation is more tenuous.

After the clone fell in combat, C'baoth let go of whatever tenuous grip he had on reality and self-control.

The risk rally does, however, look very tenuous.

The tribe's relations with other Garou are tenuous.

Now, the most tenuous of news reports has ramped the talk up again.

My gut feeling is that we are still in a tenuous economic recovery. If you are the buyer, you are taking on more debt, and more risk.

Our existence is far more tenuous than we might think.

Canada's defences in the north remain tenuous.

The air ten miles above the earth is very tenuous.

The tenuous connections between love and ownership are very much at issue in this novel.

So photographing there, I was hoping to highlight the tenuous relationship between truth and fiction, in both his life and in photography.

branches tenuous, black when dry, short branches spiny, 5-10 mm, thorns needle like.

Several times in my life, a tenuous connection was strengthened by the exchange of Christmas cards and letters.

This is where hopes of an Asia-led rebound are most tenuous.

For example, the relationship between happiness and income is complicated, and after a point, tenuous.

It can be quite difficult to detect the local ISM because it is so tenuous and emits so little light.

The picture, then, when General Anderson took over the entire battle front, was that of a long tenuous line stretching from Bizerte to Gafsa

Roy: Durkon, either you have some tenuous grasp on what's going on, or you've gone stark raving mad. Please tell me it's the former.

Calculate Approximately Critical Load of Tenuous Long Compressive Bar by Chart Multiplication Method

Specification for mixing and application of concrete with tenuous sand

Discussion on the Technology of Processing Tenuous Hole by Plain Lathe

Design and Application of Concrete and Tenuous Sand Mixture Ratio

Preserve tenuous links with one's former friends

ideas too tenuous to be adopted

Lacking substance; tenuous or flimsy:

The gloom about jobs is overdone, but the outlook remains tenuous

The tenuous air at a great height

The Tenuous Thread of Identity

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