Sentence examples for a tenuous grounding from inspiring English sources

With Ghosts, the Call of Duty series, which once was set during World War II and then moved to fictional conflicts that evoked the ones in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Cold War, fully abandons even a tenuous grounding in the drama of real-world warfare.

"If this is approved for recognition as a restored land on fairly tenuous grounds, it would provide an incentive for other reservation-shopping opportunities," Mr. Gedes said.

All four of them seem on tenuous ground considering a combination of their college football prospects this weekend and their combined, averaged polling numbers for election day as calculated by Realclearpolitics.com.com

The Sheriff's relationship with the media began on tenuous grounds but was flipped almost completely around by an ingenious but gutsy decision by the Sheriff.

"The focus," he added, "is always on the future — how will business be six months, or a year or two, from now?" When the economy appears to be on tenuous ground, as it does today, he said, "stock investors looking well out to the future are able to perceive the seeds of the next economic expansion".

"He is on tenuous ground with some Republicans anyway".

Notre Dame's loss puts them on tenuous ground for the NCAA tournament.

Newt Gingrich was already on tenuous grounds on electability, and when he dared to critique Mr. Ryan's Medicare plan, he was shunned by the party.

And now Mr Gore's prospects of another shot at the title look vanishingly small.The fact remains, he did hang on too long and on increasingly tenuous grounds.

At roughly the same time, Becca is hit with the body blow of discovering that her relationship with Gabe may be on tenuous ground.

"I just shut up and wondered if he could really detain me on the tenuous ground of verbal interference," Mr. Kay said.