Each line of tires has a slightly different tread designed for hugging the road better in wet weather, but all of them operate loosely on the principle that the placement or depth of grooves on the tire can keep the tire from accumulating water and hydroplaning.
If companies start to do this, they could avoid the fate of Google and Facebook, which are now operating, however loosely, under government scrutiny after abusing customers' privacy.
The ruling could remove the cloud over open-source software like Linux, an operating system loosely modeled on the proprietary Unix.
Operating in loosely coordinated groups, they are fighting on two broad fronts, a string of ethnic Albanian villages to the northeast of Skopje and the Tetovo region in the west.
Meanwhile, the national political correspondents Jeff Zeleny and Jim Rutenberg operate more loosely to follow developments, with Mr. Zeleny focusing on campaign dynamics and Mr. Rutenberg on investigative matters.
The best sketches from "Portlandia" and "Key & Peele" are passed virally, friend to friend; Web sites like Funny or Die and College Humor operate as loosely run studios, producing material that viewers vote up and down.
But political leaders balked at the price, leaving it up to individuals and organizations, loosely operating under the umbrella of the historical society, to honor the exposition.
For many years, the global cruise line industry has operated under a loosely defined system that tends to escape scrutiny by courts and regulators.
WASHINGTON — For 40 years, the North American electric system has operated as three loosely linked grids, but a new transmission company is aiming to unite them.
"We are already an international business," he said suggesting the business would operate in a "loosely federated way" in Scotland – as it did in Ireland – if necessary.
Those quite likely refer to unorganized, opportunistic scammers, or maybe smaller gangs that operate in a loosely organised fashion.
