Values range up to roughly 30,000 years, after which the nebula is so tenuous that it cannot be distinguished from the surrounding interstellar gas.
"The age claim is so tenuous that it distracts from a legitimate concern over the mining of such information," he said.
Mr. Wahid's hold on power is so tenuous that most organizations are waiting to see how the political drama plays out before they make new commitments.
The talks are so tenuous that even Stephen J. Hadley, Mr. Bush's ever-optimistic national security adviser, conceded there was little reason for the three leaders to get together.
In short, my imagined food independence was so tenuous that an hour of weather had turned me back into a consumer with a shopping cart.
And the economy's progress is so tenuous that the president seems wary of boasting about whatever he's done to improve it, for fear of seeming indifferent and out of touch.
To listen to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Commissioner Kelly — and their hallelujah chorus on the editorial boards of The Daily News and The New York Post — is to hear the same sad argument: Our victory over crime is so tenuous that only the mass stopping and frisking of black and Latino men keeps a sea-tide of violence at bay.
The future of Keefe Memorial Hospital, the only medical center for 40 miles, is so tenuous that this spring it asked children to color pictures based on the theme "What if the Hospital Closed?" "We're the bastard stepchild," said Victor Weed, a retired banker.
The feel of the dances was so tenuous that it was hard to tell whether it was an "on" or "off" moment when Ms. Chalom drank from a water bottle at the side and Julie Ann Dobo, the evening's lighting designer, strode out at the last minute to move two lights.
In short, the evidence that Saddique had at any point been in possession of the CD or was ever aware of its contents was so tenuous that the trial judge rightly concluded that the case should be withdrawn from the jury.
