These urban battles wiped out major pockets of al Qaeda resistance, but left fragile and tenuous gains for subsequently deployed Marines and Army soldiers who encountered snipers and improvised explosive devices on daily patrols.
Only a small fraction of the six million victims has received any tangible aid -- 500,000 at last unscientific count...the situation made all the more compelling by a total washout of bridges and roads in the affected areas leaving a tenuous helicopter lifeline as the only means to reach the people desperately in need of food and potable water.
In fact, after the Bulls' talented forward, Augustus Gilchrist, made an easy basket midway through the second half, Wright yelled out to his team, "He's their leading scorer!" To make matters worse, Villanova's soft interior defense and thin rotation have been left even more tenuous after center Mouphtaou Yarou exited for good with a possible concussion with five minutes left in the first half.
The lack of production by him and Estes have left their status tenuous.
The Shabab, which has pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda, is now left with a tenuous grip on a few small towns in southern and central Somalia.
That's the way it was supposed to work, but when Lance and Kirsten left Florida the tenuous sense of obligation weakened and finally vanished, and Lance was no longer sending any money to the P.O.
We have dreamt it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time; but we have left in its architecture tenuous and eternal interstices of unreason, so that we know it is false".
The announcements came as the international community searched for a means to break a bloody battlefield deadlock that has killed hundreds in the contested cities of Misurata and Ajdabiya and left the rebels in tenuous control of a few major coastal cities in their campaign against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
He lost a living icon of the French left and crippled his already tenuous hopes of a second term in the Elysée Palace.
Now Spencer and Vander Wal will try to pry at-bats away from White, who has a tenuous hold on left, while Mondesi plays right every day.
