The phrase "a tenuous position" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation that is weak, unstable, or not firmly established, often in a context of risk or uncertainty.
Example: "The company found itself in a tenuous position after the sudden departure of its CEO, leaving many employees anxious about the future."
Alternatives: "a precarious situation" or "an unstable stance."
But she is in a tenuous position.
Almost gone and still in a tenuous position, Knoblauch wants to stay.
And I put my family into a tenuous position there for a while.
It also puts the city in a tenuous position of being perceived as a tool for pressuring a union.
Burdened by bad debts from a property market that has tumbled up to 90percentt, some of Japan's largest banks are in a tenuous position.
TNK-BP separately hires foreign staff members, but those employees are also in a tenuous position because of visa and work permit troubles.
Executives who inflate their credentials have previously found themselves in a tenuous positions.
Consumer tech companies have opted to develop these expensive products as a segue into capturing the user-generated VR vertical, but with VR itself in a rather tenuous position, the market for a fairly pricey spherical camera that captures more content than users can realistically handle seems suspect, to say the least.
Bridget Welsh, an associate professor at Singapore Management University who follows Malaysian electoral politics, said that whoever wins is likely to have a weak majority given that the race is so close, but that a narrow victory would leave Mr. Najib in a particularly tenuous position.
"The president is in a very tenuous position; I don't think he has ever faced a crisis like he is now," one senior Yemeni official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of his post.
All this leaves the Vikings in a more tenuous position than they expected when training camp began last Friday at Minnesota State University.
