But claims to continuity with the past, however accurate they may be, provide only a tenuous basis for claims to territory or identity.
This may have seemed like a tenuous basis for divining Amy's mental state on the day of the shooting, but investigators wondered if Amy had seen the article as a kind of instruction manual.
This and other scant evidence, its report concluded, "would seem a tenuous basis for any firm conclusions as to Judge Garland's approach to the Second Amendment and firearms restrictions if he were to be confirmed to the Supreme Court".
The other problem is the non-binding nature of deeds and the lack of any enforcement mechanism for them, which may not result in concrete improvement of victim's right, and the link between the deed and obligations of subsistence rights is a somewhat tenuous basis for imposing a direct obligation on NSAGs.
Even on such a seemingly tenuous basis, Britain's counter-terrorism response was retooled.
You can't hate a caricature - they're merely used for the projection of beliefs that have a very tenuous basis in reality.
If so, these loyalists now possess a most tenuous basis to claim that their hostility to Senator Burris is motivated by a desire to neutralize a corrupt process.
My own relations with the Congress, which began on a remote and tenuous basis when, long ago, a member of the Senate appointed me to West Point, have since ranged to the intimate during the war and immediate post-war period, and, finally, to the mutually interdependent during these past eight years.
If the conviction that our gender is coequal with our newborn plumbing has an at best tenuous basis in Scripture, then it needs to be asked: what other purportedly authoritative ways of thinking about gender and its relationship to the body might be informing this conviction?
The tenuous basis for this claim is that a few of his paintings - most obviously The Singing Butler - have been widely reproduced on prints, posters, greetings cards, on coffee mugs, on umbrel las, on Marks & Spencer biscuit tins, and have sold in their millions - 12 million legally, but probably 10 times that in pirated versions.
Arjo et al. took this further suggesting that Seralini et al. "justify the use of commercial formulations rather than the pure active ingredient on the tenuous basis that environmental exposure is to the whole product.
