Campbell, who would be returning to Afghanistan for his third tour since 2003, had high praise for the Afghan security forces that the US has cultivated, citing "great progress" by the Afghan soldiers and police and predicting they will "hold firm" during the tenuous presidential transition.
There were moments when the connections between dancers, however purposely tenuous, read too vaguely, or when transitions between sections were forced.
With the military divided between supporters of the new government and those loyal to Mr. Saleh, Yemen's transition is among the most tenuous of the Arab Spring.
This fill pattern is indicative of a blockage at the point of transition between complete structure and tenuous branches, where the resin can only pass in fine, high velocity streams.
The revolutionaries in Tunisia, Libya and Yemen celebrated too, because the political transition these countries are experiencing is tenuous and the forces of the former regimes are still alive, awaiting an opportunity to crush the democratic process.
It will be the focus of these democrats to expand a vibrant, independent civil society that can begin to serve as a check on the still overwhelming power of the government and transition from working in a highly authoritarian environment to a freer but still tenuous situation.
Suárez then won office in Spain's first free vote since 1936, and helped direct the country's tenuous steps toward democracy for the next four years, earning him widespread praise as the architect of Spain's vaunted transition from dictatorship.
