Stravinsky's links to Beethoven are tenuous; his influences were elsewhere.
Although robust populations of dolphins can handle whale watching and other human influences, more tenuous groups might not make it, he says.
Instead, the stated independent position of the regulator – independent from other actors – becomes visible for what it actually is: a tenuous network of competing influences, interests, roles and responsibilities in which the safety of a medical implant is constructed through the interpretation of its performance according to underlying commercial interests.
The only acceptable error rate should be zero [21], but given the complexity of the process and the rather tenuous understanding of the processes influencing perception, there is a feeling that "the search for zero error is doomed from the start" [30].
Anyone who calls me a grime producer is mistaken because clearly I'm influenced by it, but influence is the most tenuous of words.
The evolving dynamic between Idzik and Coach Rex Ryan will be fascinating to watch as their relationship progresses, and for all of the concern about Ryan's shrinking influence within the organization and his potentially tenuous job status, it was obvious that he endorsed the picks.
But the link between the microbiome and how we feel and behave seems far more tenuous, if only because diseases of the mind are influenced by so many factors, and often elude clear biological pathways.
On Wednesday, whatever tenuous grip he still had on any vestige of political influence seemed to slip away as he was charged in federal court in Manhattan with stealing more than $220,000 in federal housing subsidies.
In Lebanon, Hizbullah's military force rivals that of the country's army, and it has maintained a tenuous military balance with Israel.Not waving but drowningIran's rising influence is a concern for Saudi Arabia and America.
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.
