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Many of us don’t live with our grandparents anymore, with each generation, the traditions and the superstitions and what you’re supposed to eat and do gets a little bit more tenuous. – Joanne Kwong	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In the early season, we bounced back from these stretches, this has kind of been the longest duration where things have been kind of tenuous for us. It’s certainly a test. We have no choice. We have to pull together and we have to dig ourselves out, and we’ve got to find a way. – Wes Unseld	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
As Canada prepares to further open the border next month, the United States is failing to reciprocate, jeopardizing an already tenuous recovery for thousands of businesses, families, and communities across Upstate New York. – Chuck Schumer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We know there is more work to be done to ensure the bad apples do not define all officers — the vast majority of whom put on the uniform each day with integrity and servant hearts, we must all come together to help repair the tenuous relationship between law enforcement and Black and minority Americans. – Tim Scott	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The world is braced for a second wave of infection - what lies ahead is a tenuous and uphill battle, defeating the pandemic requires concerted efforts from all countries. The major ones in particular should play an exemplary role in promoting collaboration. – Wang Yi	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
This may only buy 180 more days to reach a deal on Patriot, while S-400 is deployed, and Turkey is removed from the F-35 consortium, the end result is, in a best case scenario for Turkey, a tenuous waiver from sanctions, an angry Congress, and a future without an aircraft Ankara has paid well over a billion dollars to procure. – Aaron Stein	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The diffuse ISM was historically considered too harsh and tenuous an environment for appreciable abundances of large molecules to occur, prior to the detection of C60, the largest known molecules in space were only 12 atoms in size. Our confirmation of C60 + shows just how complex astrochemistry can get, even in the lowest density, most strongly ultraviolet-irradiated environments in the Galaxy. – Martin Cordiner	Found on CNN 4 years ago
From our standpoint we wouldn't characterize Tesla as having a robust liquidity position by any means, but it's less tenuous than it was six to nine months ago. – Bruce Clark	Found on CNN 5 years ago
While you're in it, life seems epic. Fiery, tenuous, and unpredictable. But once you have some distance from it, everything seems to shrink, until it's almost out of focus. So you begin scanning your life looking for something interesting or beautiful. But all you see is ordinary people assembled in their tiny classrooms and workspaces, each of us moving around in little steps, like tokens on a game board. – John Koenig	added by TrekReichen 5 years ago
The security situation remains tenuous and it is the position of the US government, there is no disagreement, that the security of our staff, the safety of our staff, the security of our personnel is our highest priority, we are looking at every option available to us to provide assistance, technical expertise to the region, but the security situation is a significant impediment. – Tim Morrison	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The direct connection between the Italian government and the S&P 500 is tenuous, but it indirectly reminds people of geopolitical uncertainty. – Ed Keon	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
There is some evidence here that President Trump is starting to realize some of the political benefits of robust economic growth, but the connection is tenuous now and the White House would be wise to carefully nurture it in advance of the November elections. – Daron Shaw	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
There is a great disparity between the protection enshrined by the law and women’s lives and experiences, and land security for millions of women and their children remains tenuous. – Francis Birungi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Senator Durbin has been outspoken in his criticism of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and supportive of Ukrainian efforts to reform their economy and defend their nation. This letter is a forgery and was obviously written by somebody with a tenuous grasp of the English language. – Ben Marter	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
That's why we flew with tanker aircraft - militarized airliner with extra gas - to provide that tenuous communications link and extra gas should we experience aircraft malfunctions. – Peter Bartos	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The King's reputation among Islamists is already tenuous, and will only grow more so, in recent months, pressured by the UAE, upon whose financing Jordan is dependent, he has cracked down on the Jordanian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. – Michael Rubin	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The outlook is tenuous for some countries, given the sensitivity for oil, investors will be a little bit more circumspect and demand a higher risk premium when it comes to these kind of commodities-sensitive countries in the current backdrop. – Kevin Daly	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. – A. W. Tozer	added by anonymous 10 years ago

Many of us don’t live with our grandparents anymore, with each generation, the traditions and the superstitions and what you’re supposed to eat and do gets a little bit more tenuous.

– Joanne Kwong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the early season, we bounced back from these stretches, this has kind of been the longest duration where things have been kind of tenuous for us. It’s certainly a test. We have no choice. We have to pull together and we have to dig ourselves out, and we’ve got to find a way.

– Wes Unseld

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As Canada prepares to further open the border next month, the United States is failing to reciprocate, jeopardizing an already tenuous recovery for thousands of businesses, families, and communities across Upstate New York.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We know there is more work to be done to ensure the bad apples do not define all officers — the vast majority of whom put on the uniform each day with integrity and servant hearts, we must all come together to help repair the tenuous relationship between law enforcement and Black and minority Americans.

– Tim Scott

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The world is braced for a second wave of infection - what lies ahead is a tenuous and uphill battle, defeating the pandemic requires concerted efforts from all countries. The major ones in particular should play an exemplary role in promoting collaboration.

– Wang Yi

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

This may only buy 180 more days to reach a deal on Patriot, while S-400 is deployed, and Turkey is removed from the F-35 consortium, the end result is, in a best case scenario for Turkey, a tenuous waiver from sanctions, an angry Congress, and a future without an aircraft Ankara has paid well over a billion dollars to procure.

– Aaron Stein

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The diffuse ISM was historically considered too harsh and tenuous an environment for appreciable abundances of large molecules to occur, prior to the detection of C60, the largest known molecules in space were only 12 atoms in size. Our confirmation of C60 + shows just how complex astrochemistry can get, even in the lowest density, most strongly ultraviolet-irradiated environments in the Galaxy.

– Martin Cordiner

Found on CNN
4 years ago

From our standpoint we wouldn't characterize Tesla as having a robust liquidity position by any means, but it's less tenuous than it was six to nine months ago.

– Bruce Clark

Found on CNN
5 years ago

While you're in it, life seems epic. Fiery, tenuous, and unpredictable. But once you have some distance from it, everything seems to shrink, until it's almost out of focus. So you begin scanning your life looking for something interesting or beautiful. But all you see is ordinary people assembled in their tiny classrooms and workspaces, each of us moving around in little steps, like tokens on a game board.

– John Koenig

added by TrekReichen
5 years ago

The security situation remains tenuous and it is the position of the US government, there is no disagreement, that the security of our staff, the safety of our staff, the security of our personnel is our highest priority, we are looking at every option available to us to provide assistance, technical expertise to the region, but the security situation is a significant impediment.

– Tim Morrison

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The direct connection between the Italian government and the S&P 500 is tenuous, but it indirectly reminds people of geopolitical uncertainty.

– Ed Keon

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There is some evidence here that President Trump is starting to realize some of the political benefits of robust economic growth, but the connection is tenuous now and the White House would be wise to carefully nurture it in advance of the November elections.

– Daron Shaw

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

There is a great disparity between the protection enshrined by the law and women’s lives and experiences, and land security for millions of women and their children remains tenuous.

– Francis Birungi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Senator Durbin has been outspoken in his criticism of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and supportive of Ukrainian efforts to reform their economy and defend their nation. This letter is a forgery and was obviously written by somebody with a tenuous grasp of the English language.

– Ben Marter

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That's why we flew with tanker aircraft - militarized airliner with extra gas - to provide that tenuous communications link and extra gas should we experience aircraft malfunctions.

– Peter Bartos

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The King's reputation among Islamists is already tenuous, and will only grow more so, in recent months, pressured by the UAE, upon whose financing Jordan is dependent, he has cracked down on the Jordanian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.

– Michael Rubin

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The outlook is tenuous for some countries, given the sensitivity for oil, investors will be a little bit more circumspect and demand a higher risk premium when it comes to these kind of commodities-sensitive countries in the current backdrop.

– Kevin Daly

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.

– A. W. Tozer

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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