Sentence examples for a tangential connection from inspiring English sources

Another of the sci-fi contenders has only a tangential connection to a great producer.

It has a tangential connection to the war, serving as Union Gen. George Meade's headquarters before the Battle of Gettysburg.

Meanwhile, the expanded definition of corporate liability has meant that companies with only a tangential connection to asbestos have been harshly punished.

The mystery of the epidemic makes a strange backdrop for the prickly domestic drama; the question of the coming baby's possible contamination is merely a tangential connection.

There is a tangential connection between the good witch in the beauty closet and Verena Baptist Robin Weigertthe the apostate daughter of a prominent diet guru.

I have a tangential connection to the events portrayed in the movie, as I was working for Jerold Rafshoon, President Carter's communications director, in the White House during this time on the re-election media campaign.

To the Editor: I, too, was fascinated by the Dodge house, which I remember well and to which I have a small, tangential connection: My great aunt, Adele McMillan, was married to William Crawford, the contractor who built the New York house.

The judiciary has allowed the "deep- pockets" theory to prevail: Companies with only the most distant, tangential connection to a case have been hit with huge liability judgments.

Some of the books being published this fall have a bizarre keepsake quality to them -- CBS News's "What We Saw" comes with a DVD of the network's news coverage of the day -- and some, like Philippe Petit's account of his 1974 high-wire walk between the towers ("To Reach the Clouds"), have only the most tangential connection to the events of Sept. 11.

More recently, Trump has fumed over Corker's tangential connection to last month's Alabama Senate Republican primary runoff election, in which Trump's favored candidate, Sen. Luther Strange, was defeated by former judge Roy Moore, who enjoys the backing of many of Trump's supporters in the state.

For when it comes to EU agriculture, the public debates that you hear and see in news headlines usually have only the most tangential connection to the real ideological disputes that lie underneath.Thus it is with this week's protests by dairy farmers in France, Brussels and elsewhere.