His manner of speaking acknowledges the slight comedy of his situation: a black man, holder of tragically tenuous rights, dressed to the nines and participating in the courtliest of rituals.
Many slum dwellers are also squatters, claiming tenuous rights to the land on which they live.
One result is that most of the world's slum dwellers a billion people remain cut off from the legal economy, working outside the tax system and with only tenuous rights to the land on which they live.
Rarer still to see it from the leader of a tenuous right-wing coalition of ultra-religious parties.
Indigenous groups' environmental problems stem from their tenuous rights to the land they occupy, advocates say.
The platform is in a seemingly tenuous position right now, especially as it is rumored that Google is working on building numerous dedicated virtual reality hardware devices of its own.
Given that climate change affects everyone whether they consent to it or not, then unregulated use of natural resources infringes the property rights of others and is ideologically equivalent to trespass, so the tenuous property rights house of cards comes crashing down.
Subsistence agriculture in much of the developing world is dominated by women, and tenuous land rights can quickly lead to the loss of access to water and then more abject poverty and hunger.
They do not have recognized properly claims to local areas (at best they now enjoy only tenuous usufructory rights).
