As Elizabeth Stanko, professor of criminology at Royal Holloway College, London, says, "fear of crime is like a sponge: it absorbs all kinds of social anxieties".A further problem with targeting people's fears is that they bear only a tenuous relation to patterns of crime.
Tenuous allegiances form and dissolve.
As it was, this undeniably brilliant staging fit an emergent pattern: arresting images, tenuous narrative.
A third characteristic of the depletion pattern appears when depletions in tenuous and translucent clouds are combined to display the gas-to-dust mass ratio, Rg/d, as a function of the percentage of the dust mass carried by Fe (Fig. 3, left, and Frisch and Slavin (2003)).
Even at its most tenuous and hollowed out, he finds some shape, a sense of cyclic pattern.
That moment is London in 2007 and 2008, on either side of the global financial meltdown, and Pepys Road is at once an illustration of the pre-crash condition of ever-increasing real-estate wealth and a shorthand for the patterns of behavior that built to that tenuous apex.
The evidence for a shift in the infectiousness of the smallpox virus is tenuous, and depends on relatively small changes in the age pattern of mortality, raising the possibility that these changes are artifactual.
In one of the most tenuous justifications in the history of planning applications, the designers claim the pattern "references the stone tracery of an adjacent church".
Like a fickle paramour, El Niño is visiting California again — but the weather pattern is weak this year and its relationship with the state is tenuous, experts say.
Cutting et al. (2010) linked their results to fractal patterns in human cognition (Gilden, 2001, 2009), but at the time the linkage seemed tenuous.
It's not too tenuous a stretch, given that Miró was thinking along these lines in ways that involved pattern as well as color.
