Sentence examples for tangential connection from inspiring English sources

Another of the sci-fi contenders has only a tangential connection to a great producer.

Meanwhile, the expanded definition of corporate liability has meant that companies with only a tangential connection to asbestos have been harshly punished.

The mystery of the epidemic makes a strange backdrop for the prickly domestic drama; the question of the coming baby's possible contamination is merely a tangential connection.

I have a tangential connection to the events portrayed in the movie, as I was working for Jerold Rafshoon, President Carter's communications director, in the White House during this time on the re-election media campaign.

There was a tangential connection here in that Biggs and another robber, Buster Edwards, got plastic surgery while on the run from a doctor who had remodelled the faces of fleeing Nazis.

However, the requirement for market positioning can sometimes lead to books being labelled as crime fiction when they have only a tangential connection with what this label is, even in a very general way, supposed to represent.

As for Iraq, I think that what we call AQ there is more of a nationalist Sunni insurgency with only tangential connections now to AQ central.

The F.B.I. was investigating numerous cases that involved international terrorism and may have had tangential connections to Al Qaeda, but one official said that despite Ms. Rice's account, the investigations were focused more overseas and "were not sleeper cell investigations".

But when you see it done – the enormous differences between them, the surprising and tangential connections – it's an inspiration, a vivid double-act, a real stroke of curating.

The report points out that others who had more tangential connections to Mr. Madoff, including anyone who attended the wedding of his niece to a S.E.C. staff member, were precluded from any involvement in the case.

"The number one complaint we hear across the country is that all the men in a place where there is a night raid are detained, even if they just have tangential connections to the insurgents, that they gave them food or are related to them.