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We only lost five. But they had been playing together since they were freshmen. We're still working on our strengths and trying to find the right replacements. The girls were a little tenuous at first, but they started doing well and making some good pass combinations.

Patrick Thompson

She did a great job, and was a great fit. She was a consummate pro, and she understood her (tenuous) position. She worked extremely hard, and I'd recommend her to anyone who wants to hire her.

Steve Savard

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer

[Others warned the administration against pressing too hard.] If we go into it with the attitude of 'Okay, we've got a deal, now here are the terms of how we move forward' and push it . . . I think it may be a bit too much, ... We need to remember how tenuous this agreement really is.

Lisa Murkowski

We all share a common interest in affordable healthcare for those in our communities. Medicaid reform is complex, and calls for systemic change that doesn't make an already tenuous situation any worse.

Jim Gardner

If I had a large amount of money I should found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily.

Stephen Fry

The commercial rationale for cross-border mergers (in banking) remains a little tenuous and the evidence is not conclusive that cost and revenue synergies can be achieved.

Gerry Rawcliffe

It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

[The real stars of this book, however, are the poker pros. Craig, a player himself, clearly likes and admires them. Still, he explains how tenuous the lives of even the best players can be.] Every great poker player has run through their playing payroll, most of them many times, ... Going broke is both a rite of passage and a badge of honor, a reminder that they live life on the edge.

Michael Craig

The game is tenuous, right on the edge for us, because we've never beaten that team. We notched that first score and I thought, 'OK, we're doing well.' Then they made a big play and it was right down the drain.

Bruce Kozerski

The next 18 months are to be very tenuous given the financial conditions and the uncertainty in the productions schedules. The cost structures are still elevated and the prices pressures are still downward.

David Andrea

The company has seen how tenuous it can be to be a hundred percent invested in one person.

Robert Passikoff

Chavez is a hawk on oil prices and always has been. His hold on power is getting increasingly tenuous. This is very negative for intermediate oil prices -- OPEC could lose its principal hawk.

Mark Gilman

These violations and breaches, whether by the SLA or the Arab militias or indeed by the government forces, should not be tolerated anymore as they further undermine what is in any case a tenuous ceasefire.

Baba Gana Kingibe

There is a similarity, if I may be permitted an excursion into tenuous metaphor, between the feel of a chilly breeze and the feel of a knife's blade, as either is laid across the back of the neck. I can call up memories of both, if I work at it. The chilly breeze is invariably going to be the more pleasant memory.

Steven Brust

To be honest, the outlook is tenuous -- we're still coming out with an initial slate, but we may be a week or two later; we just don't know.

Byron Sanders

It wasn't on the fly, screaming demand. The overriding factor is what the global economic situation is -- and it is tenuous at best.

Michael Boss