Toqueville pointed out in the 1830s that the tenuousness and distance of government in America required men to do many community jobs for themselves; and, although government seems now to have become all-embracing, creeping into every fissure of life, many Americans still like to think that they can help the community by their own efforts when the need arises.
And with that suddenness comes tenuousness: Will the greening of business disappear just as quickly as it came?Hardly.
A succession of acting presidents and a November 2010 parliamentary election that was disputed by the Communists spoke to the tenuousness of Filat's power.
The events briefly related show, first, the growing estrangement between East and West; second, the difficult position of the pope between the Byzantine emperor and the Frankish king; third, the tenuousness of the imperial hold over Rome and central Italy.
Regular programming began to return in the following weeks, but with noticeable tenuousness.
If you find this argument a bit bizarre, given the mayhem that followed the invasion and the tenuousness of historical what-ifs of this kind, and more than a bit self-serving, you aren't the only one.
In the current case, Chauncey's emphasis must necessarily be different — rather than the tenuousness of anti-gay laws, and the relatively late arrival of an identity called homosexuality, he must stress a persistent, structural hostility toward homosexuals.
My husband was ruminating on the tenuousness of existence, and, probably true to the actual Paleolithic experience, I found that I was spending more and more time preparing the few foods that we could eat.
All were impressive for their earnest economy; the Denisov and Schnittke works moved most with their evocations of fragility and tenuousness.
Spain's big step also reflected the tenuousness of the Vatican's hold on the everyday mores and behaviors in many developed democracies still spoken of as Roman Catholic.
The presidents — of Guinea, Niger, Ivory Coast and Benin — may be democratic exemplars in Washington, but these heroes of the ballot box maintain shaky holds on power, pointing to the tenuousness of democracy in parts of the continent.
