"Document That Proves Diana Was Pregnant," said a recent headline in The Daily Express, nicknamed The Diana Express because of its enthusiasm for even the most tenuous news about the princess.
For example, Douglas Murray and Denis MacShane have the most tenuous understanding of antisemitism and a disturbing propensity to demonise Muslims, and yet, certain Jewish student and community leaders seem to feel that it's helpful to promote and utilise such ill-informed commentators.
As Mr Obama arrives in his father's homeland on Friday for his first visit since coming to power, interest in the more eccentric members of his family, among them a brother living in Nairobi's slums, is generating serious capital for those with even the most tenuous of connections to Kenya's most famous offspring.
Of these three reasons, the health claims for organic foods have been the most tenuous.
In public, in his heyday as a South African white supremacist leader before apartheid's demise, Mr. Terre'Blanche roared and strutted and saluted, his blue eyes flashing, his voice sonorous with an exclusivist message — some called it neo-Nazi — that denied even the most tenuous black hopes for change.
Yet this so-called judgment - which requires the corporation to apologise for the documentary - puts a black mark against their names on the most tenuous of grounds.
For the 40 largest metros in the U.S., Forbes.com analyzed which were in the most tenuous situations and in the greatest danger of further slumping.
The power to control activity in Cyberspace has only the most tenuous connections to physical location.
Those thoughtful gestures, repeated over time, will make even the most tenuous of initial connections stick.
