Petraeus's Iraq progress report should give the administration the political space it needs to secure key 2008 fiscal year military appropriations and maintain tenuous congressional backing for its Iraq strategy.
Bar a couple of fancy-seeing-you-here cigarettes and knowing eye-rolls in the cloakroom queue, your best hope of sealing the deal in this situation is to find someone stupid enough invite 20 tenuous mutuals back to theirs for an afterparty.
ZORN KEEPS HIS HUMOR Jim Zorn said he knew his status as coach of the Washington Redskins was tenuous, even way back when his team was 1-1 and coming off a 9-7 victory against St . Louis
And the state's financial and psychic image to the nation, already tenuous, was further set back.
If a web server goes down and takes your site with it, or if an order is lost because your apparently smooth web shopfront has only the most tenuous connection with your back office, there is no hiding place.
I let it run rampant, and these are the results" — a jagged decade of health and productive work alternating with relapses, hospitalizations, electroshock treatments and slow climbs back to tenuous health.
Saying grace to an abstract God is an evasion; there are crowds, whole communities of actual people, many of them with aching backs and tenuous finances, who made the meal possible.
A net gain of one Republican seat would put that party back in tenuous control, as it was until James M. Jeffords of Vermont switched to being an independent in May.
What has more value to the people at large, a tenuous traffic artery that backs up traffic on Coast Highway and serves a few addled motorists, or a true town center, with cafe tables spilling onto the street, attractive benches, great night lighting, and perhaps an edible landscape where our community and its visitors meet, greet and hang out?
"He adores me," she said, shaking herself back to a tenuous equilibrium.
With jobs, credit and confidence all tenuous, the problem is reverberating back to the initial source of trouble: real estate.
