1.   Shift work added to the tenuous links between incomer men and their Shetlander neighbours.

2.   A few civic groups whose mailings are identified by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame stickers have tenuous links to rock and roll music.

3.   In the war, he was foreign trade minister of a collapsed country that had almost no trade and only the most tenuous links to the outside world.

4.   The Mitchell-Stans trial was the first trial of defendants who had been high-ranking Nixon administration officials who had at least a tenuous link with the Watergate scandal.

5.   They are campus tour guides, the first tenuous link between campus and prospective undergraduate.

6.   This leaves the strength of U.S. electronic intercepts of telephone calls, tenuous financial links and soil samples to justify its strike against the Sudanese plant.

7.   Kadeer and his allies in the east have very tenuous links with the northern alliance, which has taken control of Kabul and most of northern Afghanistan.

8.   Lincoln Dewitt has a more tenuous link.

9.   Some buses already bounce along a crude, government-held track over Mount Igman, giving Sarajevans a tenuous link to the outside world.

10.   The Times said there are only tenuous links between McVeigh and those identified as the earlier conspirators.