Judges' reactions have varied, with some declining to order restitution, including one in Texas and another in Maine, usually saying that the link between possession and the harm done is too tenuous to reach the level of "proximate harm" generally required under the law for restitution.
While political gains have been tenuous there has been much progress in lowering the level of violence, the report indicated.
Yet beneath the bitterness coloring national affairs — down at the level of neighborhood, family, coffee shop, tavern — a tenuous belief in the collective good remains, perhaps moderating national dismay.
Denied this information about Mars' core, the inferences become more tenuous and model dependent, but comparison with Earth suggests the level of detail that will emerge once Mars is studied seismologically.
The new president, whoever he is, will take office with the most tenuous of electoral margins, considerable public doubt that he won fairly, and a severe level of rancor on Capitol Hill.
This season, their mining of the traditions of Sicily reached new levels of tenuous.
This may be an artifact of the tenuous nature of most higher-level relationships revealed in this study.
Levels of violence are down but Iraq is a patchwork quilt of tenuous relationships.
Researchers estimate that one in 38 children in the United States still have harmful levels of the metal in their systems, but evidence linking this exposure to dementia later in life has been tenuous.
A tenuous ceasefire in eastern Ukraine appears on the brink of breaking down entirely, with a Nato official warning that the recent escalation of fighting in some areas surpassed levels of violence seen before the September truce.
