1.   But both had at least tenuous ties to the state.

2.   Even a tenuous tie to Carol Burnett.

3.   Forsaking their tenuous ties to Britain, mum Nicola, dad Tim, Bobo and Vanessa quickly come to consider themselves white Africans.

4.   Bethel had said that Rey had tenuous ties to the Bahamas and might flee.

5.   Cite Soleil was the political stronghold of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and its gang leaders have tenuous ties to political leaders.

6.   President Bush, a Washington outsider with tenuous ties to Congress, has given Cheney the task of working with lawmakers to craft legislation.

7.   The suspect is being held without bail after Bethel denied it, saying Rey had tenuous ties to the Bahamas and might flee.