Indeed so tenuous has the president's office become that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a former Socialist finance minister, recently took to calling Mr. Chirac a head of state "along the lines of the Queen of England".
It is more likely, Winter said, that any connections between the gunmen and either AQAP or Isis are "very tenuous indeed".
Much of his book is literary criticism by other means, and there are places where the continuity of his oracular theme is tenuous indeed.
The group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, had not previously claimed or carried out attacks in Afghanistan, however, and its emergence fueled suspicions that Al Qaeda, the Taliban or Pakistan's spy agency — or some combination of those three — had teamed up with the group to send the message that Afghanistan's future stability remained deeply tenuous and indeed dependent on the cooperation of outside forces.
Indeed, guest workers are in a tenuous position, usually living in labor camps or other housing run by their employers, with little connection to the surrounding community, and little understanding of their legal rights.
So it's fortunate indeed for NYC, her loyal, yet tenuous tourist base, citzens and her economy in general, that this new initiative, LinkNYC and its overall consortium, CityBridge has a plan.
Indeed, the poll underscored Mr. Bloomberg's tenuous connection with Hispanic and black residents, despite his repeated efforts to reach out to them by emphasizing issues like low-income housing.
Despite the name Ireland King of Arms did not appear to exercise heraldic authority in Ireland, and indeed the connection with Ireland seems rather tenuous.
The complete sequencing of the RETA genome will be essential for determining whether these sequences are indeed encoded within its genome; regardless, even excluding these tenuous CDS of the accessory data set, the rickettsial-like CDS of the accessory data set together with all CDS of the core data set provide substantial evidence for RETA as the intracellular denizen of T. adhaerens fiber cells.
And, indeed, by comparison steel bars, and even lead, felt light and somehow porous, tenuous.
In late 1959, she wrote this to Paul Brooks, her editor at Houghton Mifflin: "In the beginning I felt the link between pesticides and cancer was tenuous and at best circumstantial; now I feel it is very strong indeed".
