But the CIA also rightly concluded that Iraq had at most only a slender link to al-Qaeda, even though that alleged link was a key part of the Bush administration's case for war.
It seems remarkable that James, of all people, who thought it atrocious for one person to assume command over the body and soul of another, should imagine himself as an emperor with half a continent under his sway, yet it may be that the novelist was planning one last work, and there is also a strange, if slender, link with his early life.
Therefore, non-linear finite element formulation taking into account the complete non-linear strain is needed in analyzing high-speed flexible mechnisms with slender links.
Yet some of the best poems here have the slenderest link to literal love, like the spooky and evocative "New Potato": This is just one of the leathery eggs the scuffed-up, dirty turtle of the moon buried early in spring, her eyes like stars fixed on the future, and, inside its red skin, whiteness, like all of the moons to come, and marvelous, buttered with light.
Built beginning in 1959, the slender road linking the two towns clings to the side of a massive gorge and is not for the weak of stomach.
Traditionally, Laos does have better sausage than Vietnam -- everything from blood sausage to slender pork links to water buffalo patties flavored with kaffir lime leaf.
Brac's restrained humor and quiet empathy are woven from strong yet slender threads linking Sylvain to his neighbors, such as chatty café owners and bakers; mysteries of love and grand patterns of life seem to arise from deeply sedimented traditions, long-unquestioned customs, and the overwhelming influence of landscape and weather.
It is also possible they linked the slender bodies of people on television with other status symbols such as expensive clothes and careers, and there may have been a lack of awareness that TV images are contrived and edited.
As the trophyless men from the banks of the River Avon prepare for tomorrow's profoundly testing match on the shores of the Mediterranean, where defeat against the three-times European champions will leave their chances of making the knockout stage of the elite cross-border tournament hanging by the slenderest of threads, another link springs to mind.
According to the "cosmic web" theory of the universe, clumps of so-called dark matter--the invisible stuff accounting for a lion's share of the universe's mass--are linked by slender filaments made of the same stuff.
It comprises a small domain, which is likely to include the pore, linked by slender bridges to a large cytoplasmic domain with four petal-like regions.
