Word: tenuously
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...good old days of government hypocrisy, an overzealous bureaucrat came up with a brilliant solution to an age old paradox: How could the United States government break its own laws without getting caught? The solution was to create chains of command tenuous enough so that if a pesky, over-intrepid journalist or human rights activist caught wind of the government’s dastardly deeds, it could disclaim knowledge or responsibility for the entire mess...
Harbor, who had already committed to Florida St., suffered a vicious sack and permanently damaged the already tenuous ligaments in his right knee. When Harbor’s football career was permanently ended, all eyes immediately turned to Moxon—who just happened to be reading Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five behind the covers of his playbook...
...House in 2004 from a state that has not supported a Republican presidential nominee in nearly two decades. As the Washington Post lamented, the Supreme Court “examined a fundamental breakdown in American democracy and responded with a shrug.” If Vieth’s tenuous five-to-four majority remains in place, then the Court probably will not intervene to stop any partisan redistricting plans. That precedent, coupled with the potential repercussions of the Texas redistricting scheme, have laid the groundwork for a crisis in the democratic process. The next time a party wrests control...
...calm Friday night by killing four Israelis and injuring 50 outside a crowded Tel Aviv nightclub. The bomber, a 21-year-old student from a village near the West Bank town of Tulkarem, was the first since the November death of Yasser Arafat; he hoped to destroy the tenuous trust that took root at a Feb. 8 peace summit in Egypt. To keep him from succeeding, Palestinian security forces - which in the last four years have done little or nothing to apprehend those involved in such strikes - reacted energetically. The Palestinian police arrested two people in the West Bank; Palestinian...
...Harvard workers, more tenured female and minority faculty, and the creation of a Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies department: independently, these are all worthy objectives, and there is nothing wrong with a student group demanding them of the University. The link to Larry Summers’ remarks, however, is tenuous at best. When the Coalition tied into their list of demands the threat of a “community vote of no confidence” in Summers’ leadership, it implied that the president is directly and individually responsible for these demands’ not already being...