Sentence examples for a rather tenuous from inspiring English sources

Ibaraki is billed as Tokyo's third airport, after Narita and Haneda, but that is a rather tenuous claim.

This is captured by consumer-sentiment data, although these tend to have a rather tenuous relationship with more concrete measures like retail sales.

This latest novel broaches many topics but has a rather tenuous plot.A young man, disappointed with the broken promises of the 1968 movement, is about to commit suicide.

It does put him in a rather tenuous position, in that he's on both sides of the fence," the judge said, evidently referring to Mr. Foti.

In an introductory video about the concert Mr. Maazel says that by juxtaposing Mozart and Debussy a listener can discern the beginnings of impressionism in Mozart's idiom — a rather tenuous claim, although Mozart certainly broke new ground in the classical era.

According to a rather tenuous account of the painting in Vasari's Lives of the Artists (1550), Leonardo began the portrait after his return to Florence from Milan at the beginning of the 16th century, and worked at it, off and on, for four years: this has been translated for convenience to a date of 'c.1503-07'.

The connection between the transcript profiling and the remainder of the manuscript seems rather tenuous, but an effort is made to link protein expression with glycan phenotypes with glycan structure phenotypes in the respective cell types and human pathology of defects in spermatogenesis.

The marionette strings of a "sufficient cause" begin to look rather tenuous.

Progress on building a more permanent child-friendly education "system" in the south, however, is proving a rather more tenuous task to get right and it is unclear if schools and communities are fully aware of what CFS means or what actions they can take to make it happen.

The only acceptable error rate should be zero [21], but given the complexity of the process and the rather tenuous understanding of the processes influencing perception, there is a feeling that "the search for zero error is doomed from the start" [30].

At that point the link to the playing fields of England becomes rather tenuous.