Word: tenuously
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...past these slum-dwellers live in is a tenuous one, and as it is increasingly exposed to the pressures of industrialization prevalent throughout Latin America, it will be assimilated into the national, Western-like culture the cities represent. The children of the women who speak Indian tongues in the markets of LaPaz are learning Spanish and the metric system. The Mexican workers who come to Mexico City to pray to an icon of the Virgin of Guadalupe will soon take the eucharist and mouth their pleas to a transubstantiated God. The tiny craftsmen of Quito, Ecuador, who sell shoes, hats...
...unproven things. For example, there is a correlation between sunspots and atmospheric activity, and atmospheric activity with variations in the earth's rotation, but the relationship between these changes in the rotation rate and the occurrence of earthquakes all over the world is far more tenuous. Certainly, it is not proved which comes first, and the conclusion that California is going to have an earthquake in no way follows...
...effacing man who never forgot his roots or upgraded his accent. He was born in 1867 in Burslem, one of the "Five Towns" in the industrial north of England from which he drew almost all his best material. His family had just struggled out of the potteries to a tenuous hold in the middle class. Arnold was an insatiably self-educating fellow. When he left home for London at 21, he had mastered shorthand, made a start on French and begun reading any "masterpiece" whose existence he had discovered. He clerked in London for several years, gradually making...
Recognizing the subjective uncertainty of being an artist, Rubins says, "Sometimes you feel like saying, 'I have nothing, I have no talent, what am I doing?' Unless you're a genius, trying to rest your life on something as tenuous as being a songwriter is hard. So you re-read old reviews, remember what someone said. You can't be objective about yourself; you have to rely on outside reactions...
...irony of the past year's politics is that the liberals have seen many of their goals reached within a conservative council--goals that eluded them when they held the majority, tenuous though...