The multinational corporation argued that there is too tenuous a connection between what allegedly happened in Nigeria and the United States.
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Having been roundly castigated for failing to give Andrew Symonds caught behind on day one - the all-rounder went on to hit an unbeaten 162 - he awarded the Australian a tenuous appeal for a catch at the wicket which ended Dravid's innings.
The rural 5-acre property surrounded by forest has a tenuous water supply from a well.
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While Harper is likely to continue supporting the mission, his government has a tenuous grip on power with only a minority of seats in Parliament and no real political allies.
The idea of hospitality provides a link, often quite tenuous, between a series of entertaining historical anecdotes, as Mr Browner ranges broadly from Petronius to Adolf Hitler via the court of Louis XIV, the log cabin of John James Audubon and the Paris salon of Gertrude Stein.
In only a tenuous sense, then, is E. coli a species in the way that, say humans or mice are species.
Back in the late 70's a close Family Friend was imprisoned in India without trial, because of her extremely tenuous link to a very dangerous criminal.
As tension between the US and EU and Iran heats up, as a tenuous peace dialogue plods along in the Middle East, and as the withdrawal from Iraq continues, a state stuck in between these conflicts with unclear alliances can be a powder keg, unless Brussels changes its mind.
One is the impact of such a tenuous recovery on monetary policy in the euro area.
He went on to attribute the U.S. job struggles to a tenuous relationship between businesses and Washington.
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But it seemed clear that Iceland, already isolated by the financial-system collapse, would remain in a tenuous position.
But Howell thinks the Predators' status in Nashville is tenuous, despite a sale to a local group last year.
Critics who think the government has no place in supporting technology innovation have a tenuous grasp of U.S. economic history.
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In 1973, everything remained to be done in a place where the modern wine industry was just gaining a tenuous foothold.
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In some cases, most notably involving asbestos, companies have been hounded despite having only a tenuous link to the product in question.
But Dickens is famous and he has a debt connection in his background and better a tenuous connection than no connection at all right?
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This is particularly true for immigrants who leave behind everything dear and familiar, for a tenuous hope that they and their children might have better lives.
The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager instrument on Image is capturing the first global images of the plasmasphere, a tenuous extension of the Earth's electrically charged upper atmosphere, or ionosphere.
So both presidential campaigns are adhering to a tenuous, unwritten hands-off agreement when it comes to race and religion even as they themselves struggle to navigate those waters.
But counting on younger voters can be a tenuous proposition.
The Lakers have recovered from their turbulent first few months to grab a tenuous hold on the No. 8 spot, while the other race in Los Angeles has the Clippers trying to hold off Denver and Memphis for the No. 3 seed.
Some point to the far more tenuous nature of a public-sector-led recovery ( Calvo and Lu-Koong 2010), while others note the rising risks of debt problems in the horizon, notably in the Eurozone ( Baldwin 2010, Cabral 2010, Reinhart 2010).
Governments, with only tenuous authority in such a conflict-ridden country, have dodged this controversial possibility.
Hmmm: there is only a very tenuous link between voting arrangements and the misbehaviour of MPs.
This latest novel broaches many topics but has a rather tenuous plot.
And, though Berlioz's own faith was tenuous to nonexistent, a story as grand and essential as L'Enfance du Christ ("The Childhood of Christ") proved irresistible.
But by doing this now, in addition to the fees and all the other things that seem to be punitive or retributive in nature, you're dampening what is right now a very tenuous economic situation and growth is just beginning.
Or, on a more tenuous tangent, if you put the smoke and "dreamt up" notes together, you could perhaps surmise that this is going to be the launch for the HTC Vision, which has most recently been referred to as the G1 Blaze.
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As Ireland basks in the prosperity which followed its mid-1990s economic boom, the Fleadh has a more relaxed take on what is Celtic, with links a little tenuous at times having as it does ambassadors from Canada (Neil Young), working class England (Billy Bragg) and the United States (Evan Dando).
In many ways the connection between growth and well-being in the West is indeed more tenuous now than it was even a few decades ago.
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