Inside, the president and officers seem to cling ever more
tenuously to the idea that the community can outflank the profound social and political changes being wrought by Venezuela's dictatorial president; that they can hunker down and eventually rebuild, or somehow stanch the flow of younger Venezuelan Jews leaving to find more promising economic and social conditions.
The chronicles are described as interrelated stories, yet these two are only
tenuously linked to the rest.
As such, the clampdown on anyone even
tenuously suspected of being connected to the uprising has grown bolder and bolder with each passing day.
So too complaints about the lack of government spending on Aboriginals, housing, infrastructure, welfare programmes, clean air, refugees, and the fact that the government was weak because it
tenuously held office as a minority government, and consequently long-term decisions were delayed or ignored.
Cox has been
tenuously linked with moves away from The Hawthorns this week - most bizarrely with a move to Middlesbrough (Tony Mowbray tried to resist a move for Cox shortly before his departure for Celtic).
Stanley Kobierowski was only out to have a good time, but wound up setting a Rhode Island state record when his
tenuously controlled car ran into a highway message board and officers sort a poured him out of the driver's seat.
The same is sometimes claimed of the Superman franchise,
tenuously linking the unhappy stories of Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Marlon Brando and Richard Pryor.
Buch then links this work, somewhat
tenuously, to Kafka's short story, In the Penal Colony, without distinguishing between the fact that while they may bear some connections, the torture victim Kafka depicts was a figment of his imagination, while the man Bataille observes so enthusiastically was once incontrovertibly, agonizingly, alive.
To me, her failures seemed easily attributable to the fact that her right hand was
tenuously gripping a spinning rod by its very end while her left was cranking the reel backward.
Once a nation of stability and prosperity, Ivory Coast is today
tenuously held together by international peacekeepers after years of internal conflict.
The "six common-usage-space stories" in Papadaki's volume are only
tenuously linked together by the fact that the characters are all residents of the same block of flats, sharing the back lot space.
ON HIS first day as president, Barack Obama said, "For a long time now, there's been too much secrecy in this city." He promised that "information will not be withheld just because I say so." But while Obama has released some documents related to the war on terror, he also has denied requests for documents that are, at most,
tenuously related to national security.
The architectural projects exhibited at CAAM, however, (and this goes for several of the other venues as well] consisted of projects that were several years old, previously published and only
tenuously linked to the biennial theme.
