Sentence examples for a tenuous justification from inspiring English sources

I don't want to sound mean, but isn't he just another rich bloke using the Bible as a tenuous justification for his lifestyle?

Although he has since owned some quality mutts, there is, I sense, a lot of ground to make up, though this suspicion may be a tenuous justification for my choice of gift.

Still, what good is a tenuous intellectual justification without quoting a line or two of poetry?

The cold war space race is a distant memory, and cooperation with our former rival has provided a tenuous diplomatic justification for the International Space Station.

Its fervent supporters have wheeled out increasingly tenuous justifications for its construction, but the zombie train refuses to die.

In one of the most tenuous justifications in the history of planning applications, the designers claim the pattern "references the stone tracery of an adjacent church".

This points to one of the possible justifications for Blair's actions, namely that he has a tenuous grip on reality.

A tenuous calm reigns.

It was a tenuous line.

That is a tenuous assertion.

The place may have a tenuous atmosphere.