Sentence examples for a tenuous control from inspiring English sources

During the Xi (Western) Zhou (1046 771 bce), the first of the two major divisions of the period, the Zhou court maintained a tenuous control over the country through a network of feudal states.

Assad still has only a tenuous control over much of the country ― as shown this week when Islamic State militants retook the ancient city of Palmyra from government forces.

The British had only captured the fort the previous year and they only had a very tenuous control of the area.

Venture capitalist Federman scoffs at the notion of total control, "The entrepreneur in a modern company has tenuous control at best.

The announcements came as the international community searched for a means to break a bloody battlefield deadlock that has killed hundreds in the contested cities of Misurata and Ajdabiya and left the rebels in tenuous control of a few major coastal cities in their campaign against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

His governing coalition, consisting of six parties, holds tenuous control after a narrow victory over the People's Progressive Party, which is supported largely by Indo-Guyanese citizens, descendants of indentured workers brought to the colony by British authorities.

He has a tenuous 51% control of Turkcell through an inverse pyramid of shareholdings (see chart).

He will also announce the creation of a state committee geared at helping Republicans retain their tenuous control of the State Senate.

Democratic leaders in Washington, who are fighting to expand the party's tenuous control of the Senate, had not expected a primary challenge to Mr. Lautenberg.

Although HIV/AIDS is under tenuous control in the industrialized world, it is a burgeoning public health crisis in the developing nations of Africa, Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.

A large part of the electorate supported the PPD, which gained tenuous control over the legislature.