The phrase "a tenuous majority" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where a group holds a majority that is weak or not firmly established, often in a political or decision-making context.
Example: "The party managed to secure a tenuous majority in the legislature, making it difficult to pass significant reforms."
Alternatives: "a fragile majority" or "a slim majority".
They face high expectations from the party's liberal base, at the same time that they must govern with a tenuous majority and a party caucus stretched between liberals from the two coasts and conservatives from the South.
They have been fearful to stray far from Mr. Bush on foreign policy and have been hampered in getting out a message because of their relative weakness -- even in the Senate where they are the strongest, they have only a tenuous majority thanks to an independent who votes with them.
The outcome of the races here in Washington could go a long way to determining control of the House, where the Republicans now hold a tenuous majority: 222 seats, to 210 for the Democrats and 2 for independents, one usually in the Democratic camp, the other in the Republican.
The Democrats have a fragile, tenuous majority in the State Senate.
This is a battlefield that could prove slippery and full of land mines for a tenuous Senate majority that itself lacks ideological unity.
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Despite one-party rule, enacting Ryan's agenda is no easy task because the House Republican Conference has been deeply fractured and Republicans hold a tenuous 52-48 majoriny in the Senate.
As he announced his retirement at the county convention at the Knights of Columbus hall in Patchogue on Sept. 21, Mr. Baranello told one of his favorite stories about how he pulled together a tenuous bipartisan majority to elect the county Legislature's first Democratic presiding officer.
The nine-member council that's to be sworn into office Nov. 17 will thus reflect a sharply divided city, with the real progressives holding a tenuous 5-4 majority - tenuous because one of the five, current Mayor Matt Appelbaum, is given to deep analytical musings whose outcome is sometimes a surprise.
Called Naturally Blue, its aim is to maintain the tenuous majority of Democrats in the Arkansas legislature to promote an agenda of economic populism and to take the fight to the rest of Dixie.
But in this deeply patriotic country, where sentiments are old and entrenched, Mr. Erdogan's government, guarding its tenuous majority in Parliament on the verge of the elections, has assumed a more and more hawkish line lately.
