Sentence examples for a tenuous relation to from inspiring English sources

When, in March 1989, Italian authorities requested that the bronze be returned, Getty Museum director John Walsh replied that the request was an "unwelcome surprise". The statue has "little possibility of being related to Italian cultural heritage," he wrote, and only a "tenuous relation" to Italy's patrimony.

These definitions have only a tenuous relation to Wagner's unsystematic method.

Even policies are marketing – since, like a lot of marketing, they bear only a tenuous relation to the truth.

As Elizabeth Stanko, professor of criminology at Royal Holloway College, London, says, "fear of crime is like a sponge: it absorbs all kinds of social anxieties".A further problem with targeting people's fears is that they bear only a tenuous relation to patterns of crime.

The cult was also partly the result of geography, of the spread-out conditions of American literary culture, which gave American writers a very tenuous relation to their audience.

However, the harshness of the punishment may be an important consideration where the asserted power to expatriate has only a slight or tenuous relation to the granted power.

They bear as tenuous a relation to reality as Israel's insistence back in the 1980s that the overwhelmingly nonviolent First Intifada comprised a "campaign of terror" by "mobs," or, more recently, its repeated denials that the Israeli military deployed white phosphorus in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead.

The United States typically grants visas to diplomats and heads of state from around the world, including from Iran, Venezuela and other nations with tenuous relations with Washington, to visit UN headquarters in New York City.

Passivity has an ambiguous relation to subjectivity.

A concrete example of such a model, focused on shedding light on the particularly tenuous relation between production pressure and safety, has been provided by Cowing, Paté-Cornell, and Glynn (2004).

The occurrence of neurological deficits alone or accompanied by renal impairment was significantly higher in the death group than in the survival group, which suggested that neurological deficits especially together with renal impairments might be a possible prognostic factor for sTTP patients although the accuracy of using this tenuous relation is debatable.