The phrase "a tenuous step" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a cautious or uncertain action taken towards a goal or outcome.
Example: "The team took a tenuous step towards resolving the conflict, hoping it would lead to a more permanent solution."
Alternatives: "a fragile step" or "a delicate step".
So in Shobuj Bagh there are two great fears: that a telephone call will bring news of another collapse; and that the western buyers will go elsewhere and the jobs that are their first tenuous step out of abject poverty will disappear.
Fittingly, it all feels a bit like watching a baby takes its first tenuous steps.
With the help of our Democratic leaders, the country is taking its first tenuous steps toward building a more transparent, truthful, equal, efficient and cheaper credit system, where the fee-happy mortgage chicanery that caused our current economic malaise is unambiguously illegal.
first tenuous steps out into an unsteady world.
Last week, President Obama and Congressional Republicans took some tenuous steps along the path of legislative peace, vowing to work together to try and tackle the country's stubborn unemployment problem.
Suárez then won office in Spain's first free vote since 1936, and helped direct the country's tenuous steps toward democracy for the next four years, earning him widespread praise as the architect of Spain's vaunted transition from dictatorship.
Ms. Nolan has long had a tenuous relationship with the Democratic Party organization in Queens, which took the unusual step of declining to endorse the incumbent in this Assembly race.
However, there is a tenuous connection from fridge voyeurism to something a bit more practical: I have seen people providing step-by-step cooking tutorials using the app.
Because again, classic mistake of financial crises, the government steps on the brake too quickly and they arrest a tenuous sign of recovery, pushing the economy to a more vulnerable point again, prolonging the recession, doing more damage --.
