Sentence examples for a tenuous hold from inspiring English sources

And both have a tenuous hold on the job.

Coughlin, again, had a tenuous hold on his job.

Russians sometimes worry that they have only a tenuous hold on their vast eastern possessions.

The central bank has only a tenuous hold on monetary policy.

Republicans, for instance, are trying to keep a tenuous hold on seats in Massachusetts and Maine.

A tenuous hold, perhaps, but she strengthened her hand with the blue dress.

With six games remaining, the Men in Red hold a tenuous grasp on the fifth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference and will look to put distance between themselves and the idle Philadelphia Union this weekend.

The right-handed Garcia, who is holding a tenuous grip to the last spot in the rotation with Andy Pettitte due back around May 10, did not make it out of the second inning.

Leaders in Haiti, where the state holds a tenuous grasp on authority, twice passed plastic bans a few years ago.

The recent trajectory of our society has whole segments seeing an increasingly tenuous hold on a middle-class lifestyle, and health care economic worries are a big part of that.

"The ongoing violence reflects the fact that the leadership has a very tenuous hold over commanders and foot soldiers," said Emily Winter Botham, a former advisor to the European Union in Kabul.