Sentence examples for tenuous relation from inspiring English sources

These definitions have only a tenuous relation to Wagner's unsystematic method.

Even policies are marketing – since, like a lot of marketing, they bear only a tenuous relation to the truth.

The cult was also partly the result of geography, of the spread-out conditions of American literary culture, which gave American writers a very tenuous relation to their audience.

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.

A concrete example of such a model, focused on shedding light on the particularly tenuous relation between production pressure and safety, has been provided by Cowing, Paté-Cornell, and Glynn (2004).

The occurrence of neurological deficits alone or accompanied by renal impairment was significantly higher in the death group than in the survival group, which suggested that neurological deficits especially together with renal impairments might be a possible prognostic factor for sTTP patients although the accuracy of using this tenuous relation is debatable.

Winning the trust of Jewish Democratic voters is all the more difficult for Mr. Obama because of the tenuous relations between blacks and Jews.

The United States typically grants visas to diplomats and heads of state from around the world, including from Iran, Venezuela and other nations with tenuous relations with Washington, to visit UN headquarters in New York City.

If a U.S. trade ban caused the company to fold, it's easy to see how that could severely impact already tenuous relations between the two countries.

In the past 20 years, archaeologists and Native Americans have achieved a measure of reconciliation, but a new controversy threatens their tenuous relations.

The importance of effective communication in veterinary service provision in Nigeria - 'especially when government agencies are dealing with people who have had only tenuous relations with them' - has been acknowledged for decades (Awogbade [1979]).