But it is home to an enclave of fiercely proud Serbs who have done as much as anyone in recent months to fray the tenuous ties binding Yugoslavia.

But both had at least tenuous ties to the state.

By now Joseph had come to see how completely their lives were bound up in their villages, and in the tenuous ties that linked one village to the next.

For New Yorkers with even tenuous ties to Puerto Rico, it is something to set the alarm for, even on an overcast day like yesterday.

He had valued the tenuous ties of quasi-adopted kinship far more than the Ryes had ever realized.

Each boasts a tenuous Irish tie.

However, we must all remember to contain our natural hostility during the second round of negotiations or we risk severing our tenuous diplomatic ties.

The use of federal troops in Croatia is likely to fray further the tenuous ties binding together this nation of ethnically based republics.

This is another fossil with only tenuous ties to Meganthropus.

Many of the other programs in this A&E salute have more tenuous ties to the Revolution.