The influence advantage that voters have over non-voters is more tenuous; the distance between the concerns of the campaigns and the experience of the country has narrowed.
Though the movie is scripted and the story is constructed (Porterfield's co-screenwriter is Amy Belk), he never gives the sense of doling out the details of a story that he knows, but, rather, of finding it out as it goes along — and the exquisitely tenuous fragility of his inquisitive but respectful distance from his characters bears it out.
It underscored the military's tenuous control in Chechnya, even within a short distance of its main base in the republic, and highlighted, many said, the urgent need for military reforms.
"But it's coming along," he said with a laugh last Friday in a long-distance phone interview hampered by a tenuous satellite connection and the enormous racket of the huge cat crashing through the waves.
PAGE A8 Unrest in Bolivia Spreads President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada's hold on power in Bolivia grew more tenuous as demonstrations demanding his resignation spread and key political allies scrambled to distance themselves from him.
When the Spanish first entered the Mesopotamian region, distances between settlements were so great that supply lines were tenuous, and the settlers found it necessary to produce their own subsistence crops.
It revolves around Saturn in a prograde, circular orbit at a distance of 294,660 km (183,090 miles), which is within the planet's broad, tenuous E ring.
Dione has a diameter of 1,120 km (696 miles) and revolves around Saturn in a prograde, nearly circular orbit at a mean distance of 377,400 km (234,500 miles), which is within the outer part of Saturn's tenuous E ring.
With six games remaining, the Men in Red hold a tenuous grasp on the fifth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference and will look to put distance between themselves and the idle Philadelphia Union this weekend.
With more than a decade's distance from the attacks of September 11th, the rationale for U.S. involvement in Afghanistan has become increasingly tenuous.
