Sentence examples for a more tenuous from inspiring English sources

Lower-round picks live a more tenuous existence.

Today block associations have a more tenuous, less visible role.

He occupies a more tenuous place in the hearts of listeners.

A more tenuous partisan coalition exists in the Senate, and its cohesion depends upon McConnell's power to persuade.

The reaction of Iran's opposition as well as its establishment figures suggests a more tenuous relationship between the Islamist regime and Iranian nationalism than generally thought.

"The audience being reached may be more critical," he said, "than their typical audience or have a more tenuous fit with the merchant".

The four samples collected in the northern part of the A territory were only sampled once so confirming their membership in, and the entire territory size of, group A remains more tenuous.

When he learns that his family's connection to Handkerchief Moody is a lot more tenuous than he believed, Mr. Moody tries to draw a lesson about the ways in which families invent mythologies to define themselves, but this conclusion reads like such a coy addendum that it has the effect of making the bulk of the foregoing book read like a giant red herring.

Romney's repeated lies on issue after issue and his brazen willingness to change his position fundamentally seemingly by the day, will be easier to swallow from a political party whose core constituents are already disposed toward a much more tenuous connection to truth and reality.

The neighbor-joining and Bayesian phylogeny (based on a GTR + I + G substitution model) produced essentially the same topology (Appendix S4): a major split between two clades was highly supported, while a third, more tenuous clade was evident in the neighbor analysis with some support in the Bayesian analysis (posterior probability = 0.60).

Often there's an obvious link to the game in question, but occasionally the link is a little more tenuous.