With the help of Squanto and the friendly Wampanoag, who taught them how to exploit the local fish and game, plant corn and squash, and also protected them from other hostile tribes, the band of colonists succeeded in establishing a tenuous foothold at the edge of the North American wilderness.
The sensational charges drew a worried response from Washington and brought Iraq's tenuous partnership government to the edge of collapse.
For them, the changing climate is an immediate life-or-death challenge that has pushed their already tenuous existence to the very edge.
Keeping Republicans on edge are several Trump advisers with tenuous ties to Ryan and the party establishment who might be more responsive than others to outside pressure, including chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon and senior policy adviser Stephen Miller.
However, the city's position was always tenuous; it was located on the south-eastern edge of the province, facing hostile and increasingly powerful Berber tribes.
Night clouds or noctilucent clouds are tenuous cloud-like phenomena that are the "ragged edge" of a much brighter and pervasive polar cloud layer called polar mesospheric clouds in the upper atmosphere, visible in a deep twilight.
Meanwhile, the town's Catholic priest (Javier Bardem), whose faith is shaken, becomes involved at the edge of the romantic intrigue as a tenuous yet sympathetic advisor.
The rancor and sadness were banished Saturday night at K.D.'s, an open-air roadhouse on the edge of Monrovia, which reopened two weeks ago after a tenuous cease-fire came to town.
We came up with the idea of an orbiting structure on the edge of the vulnerable, one where the form looks tenuous.
Older buildings, monuments of tenuous, halfassed business ambitions, are falling to rubble at their edges...
