Sentence examples for a tenuous prospect from inspiring English sources

As long as the settlements exist, peace in the Middle East remains a tenuous prospect.

Many in Yemen's own government say the conflict is less about controlling terrain — always a tenuous prospect in this tribally splintered country — than about Mr. Saleh's struggle to reassert his military powers, in the face of widening insurgencies and intensifying political rivalry in the capital.

Scotland's fading hopes of qualifying for the next World Cup were erased by two late goals in Novi Sad from a Serbia side which thus maintained its own tenuous prospects of advancement.

The first may be the most enduring, the second remains a tenuous and uncertain prospect at best, and the third has yet to yield significant fruit.

A tenuous calm reigns.

It was a tenuous line.

It's a tenuous connection.

It is a tenuous balance.

That is a tenuous assertion.

It was a tenuous existence.

The place may have a tenuous atmosphere.