Sentence examples for a tenuous bond from inspiring English sources

Overseas, his relationship with German Chancellor Angela Merkel is particularly strained, and he seems to have only a tenuous bond with British Prime Minister Theresa May.

She forms a tenuous bond with Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) before the 75th annual Games.

The invective leveled at Obama for attempting to forge a tenuous bond of trust with Iran also reminds McDermott of his trip to Iraq before the war, when he felt like he got some pretty good advice from Iraqis.

Two new works, both by women, explore the all too familiar subject of an individual's conflict — and tenuous bond — with a group.

"Madame Sousatzka," her 1962 novel about the tenuous bond between an eccentric piano teacher and a child prodigy, was adapted in 1988 into a film with Shirley MacLaine in the title role.

My own intuition is that a commitment on the part of researchers to interpret novel and pertinent genetic findings in a manner that can easily be shared with the patients to which the findings apply will create an added incentive [ 9] that will augment the currently tenuous bond between pediatrician, researcher and patient that is essential to pediatric genomic research.

His son and coemperor, John VIII, ignored the tenuous bond that had been established and in 1421 supported a pretender, Mustafa, against the rightful heir to the Turkish throne, Murad II.

The massacre destroyed the tenuous bond between the Party and the intellectuals: some renounced their Party membership and broke with the regime; some went into exile or were jailed.

They both could use a wider range of physical gestures to convey youthful bravado, but they bring out the nervousness underneath the characters' attitude and make it possible to sense the tenuous bond of affection between them.

The protagonists, a randomly thrown-together group of individuals trying to find safety amid swarms of these undead or "walkers," forge tenuous bonds based largely on a kind of desperate faith in one another's humanity.

The strongest parts of the book delineate the tenuous bonds of friendship between characters, especially between adults and children.