And while he and greenmarket officials came to a tenuous agreement to coexist last summer, the jockeying for sidewalk space will soon resume as the greenmarket reopens next month.
But according to the tenets of interest-based bargaining, focusing too much on objective criteria such as price, or salary in the case of faculty positions, can produce a tenuous agreement in which basic human needs--security, economic well-being, a sense of belonging, recognition, control over one's life--are not met.
A tenuous agreement on a bailout plan for Wall Street that had been reached Thursday morning was threatening to fall apart by the time evening had arrived.
As part of the tenuous agreement that kept Brown as Speaker, Republicans now control half of the Assembly's committees and the staff jobs that go with them.
Nearing a tenuous agreement on health care reform that is likely to hobble or abandon the public option, Senate leaders now face another filibuster threat -- this one from the left.
A TENUOUS ceasefire agreement and a few days of relative quiet have provided war-weary Israelis and Palestinians with a glimmer of hope.
A tenuous UN agreement designed to hold the nation together is wearing thin and its critics claim it will expire on 17 December, the anniversary of its signing.
Mr Rajapaksa first won the presidency in 2005 when Sri Lanka was in the middle of a tenuous ceasefire agreement with the Tamil Tiger rebels.
In August 1693 Phips reached a tenuous peace agreement with the Abenaki people; it was eventually subverted by French intrigues to bring the Abenaki back on the warpath, and had no lasting impact.
As fighting rages around eastern Ukraine despite a tenuous ceasefire agreement between Russian separatists and the Ukrainian government, bodies continue to pile up in the morgues of Donetsk, with officials reporting at least 20 deaths over the last two days, according to Russian media.
Many ethnic groups have signed tenuous cease-fire agreements in recent months.
