Private equity firm Actis' deal to buy into one of India's only remaining large domestic confectionery players, Nutrine was called off at the eleventh hour early this week underscoring once again how tenuous are the agreements reached with family-owned businesses in Asia.
"The wall of separation" between the Church and State may be a guiding principle of American politics, but the huge cultural space that evangelical Protestantism and other politically active religious movements have gained in the United States demonstrates how tenuous are the boundaries between the secular and the religious (Lazcano 2005).
How tenuous is a bond made through mutual torture?
Had his doctors realized that how tenuous was the connection between lowering A1C and heart disease, the biggest threat to these patients, they might have been less insistent.
This kind of talk is premature, given how tenuous is the progress of talks between North Korea and South Korea toward ending the hostilities between their two countries and denuclearizing the region.
But that may be because with each patient story, she has brought us closer to understanding how flimsy is the veil separating us from them, how tenuous is the illusion that we are invulnerable and cannot be touched by a catastrophic accident, diagnosis or death.
Although the Court professes willingness to draw hairline distinctions between different types of tort suits brought by workers against unions under federal labor laws, this willingness, in my view, only suggests how tenuous is the evidence of "congressional intent" on which the Court relies to back up its per se rule here.
It surprises even Zhenya herself to learn how tenuous is her sentimental attachment to the idea of community action -- no match at all for her competing desire to shake up, if not to destroy, a home that has become for her a veritable prison of numbness and grief.
Which, fairly or not, underlines how tenuous is the hold of Frias, and ultimately Bolsinger, on a rotation spot.
Is it true, he asks, that some troops are being moved from Afghanistan to Iraq -- and, if so, "is that wise, considering how tenuous things are [in Afghanistan]?" Pace's voice turns icy.
French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Theresa May are also staying home as they deal with crises, a reminder of how tenuous geopolitics are in many parts of the world.
