Sentence examples for a tenuous effort from inspiring English sources

Tonight, Emo addresses racism ("I like the south. But of course, I'm prejudiced"), Avatar and Christianity (he tells his recent poll-winning best religious joke of all time), while making only a tenuous effort to connect one subject to the next.

Clifford Krauss (NYT) ASIA SRI LANKA: PEACE ENVOY IN TALKS The Norwegian envoy Erik Solheim met top Sri Lankan politicians in a bid to push ahead a tenuous peace effort between the government and separatist Tamil rebels.

The Democratic party may not desire a high voter turn out just yet, they have certainly worked to support Hillary Clinton in her sometimes tenuous effort to maintain frontrunner status.

But the Russian proposal also was viewed with some skepticism by the Obama administration, seeing it as a possible delaying tactic that could undermine Mr. Obama's already tenuous efforts to push for a military strike.

Every so often, with few if any lasting results, Latin American leaders launch punctuality campaigns.Venezuela, which has oil (and therefore perceives only a tenuous link between effort and reward), doesn't take the issue seriously.

Her bored American translator, Emma Neufeld, soon joins the search effort in Rio, where she forms a tenuous alliance with Beatriz's daughter and begins a romance with her son.

A tenuous calm reigns.

It was a tenuous line.

That is a tenuous assertion.

It was a tenuous existence.

The place may have a tenuous atmosphere.