Sentence examples for tenuous ties from inspiring English sources

Already tenuous ties between the cricket team and the fourth estate were irreparably damaged.

To harp on about modern Greeks' tenuous ties with ancient Hellenic culture is to miss the point.

Of all the choices NASA made, the selection of the Intrepid drew the most complaints, as critics scoffed at New York's tenuous ties to the space program.

For New Yorkers with even tenuous ties to Puerto Rico, it is something to set the alarm for, even on an overcast day like yesterday.

Some of those disqualified appeared to have only tenuous ties, if any, to the Baath Party, the only official political entity allowed under Mr. Hussein's government and one that dominated social and economic life.

Franz Liszt, in the free-wheeling forms of his symphonic poems, simply pursued the individualistic line to its ultimate consequences, severing whatever tenuous ties to traditional structures the works of his immediate predecessors had still maintained.

Eviction can force a change in school and break a very tenuous tie to a job".

His own hopes for a sixth title seem tenuous, tied as they are to Howard's moody self-absorption.

The current publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., has continued to take a hands-off approach to news and opinion, and, like several of his cousins, he has only a tenuous tie to his Jewish heritage.

In a fit of mercantilism in 1971 the U.S. torpedoed the dollar's already tenuous tie to gold.

Charlotte, N.C.-based Jackson and Cavan Meade are the entrepreneurial young stars of the enthusiastic pitch video for Genetipetz, animal body part "plushups" that have a tenuous tie to genetics.