Meanwhile, they received little compensation in return and spent years away from home to live tenuous hand-to-mouth existences as factory or construction workers.
When Somalia's tenuous transitional administration handed power to a new government in 2012, the newly declared Federal Republic of Somalia had only limited control over the country.
Lane is unable to walk or speak, and his control of his hands is tenuous, too; he communicates with Brady by forming letters with his fingers, which Brady interprets by reciting phrases back to Lane.
Cummings said that the state of affairs in Damasak, like many towns that have changed hands, remains tenuous.
It is her gauzy garment, and it is held in her narrow and tenuous grip, in her delicate hand.
Its brilliance is complicated, and tenuous, and in the wrong hands it fails completely, as when Joan Baez recorded an oddly upbeat and mindless version of it, in 1971.
A tenuous Lib-Lab conlithen, othere othandhand, would want to try to run for longer, to make sure that electoral reform happens.
My grandparents, on the other hand, possessed only the most fragile, tenuous claims to any Europeanness.
Brown's future at Texas might remain tenuous, but another blowout at the hands of the Sooners would probably have sealed his fate.
The connection between the tilt and spread of Nephi and Aristotle's hands may be as tenuous as the one between the faces of Nephi and Romney — who knows if Friberg had Raphael's mural in mind.
23 25 The link between disease threat and hand washing is, however, still tenuous.
