Sentence examples for a very tenuous position from inspiring English sources

"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.

"But it creates a very tenuous situation for everybody".

"We're in a very tenuous situation in Washington," Burke said.

Maybe we have to look to a younger generation, people who are either not academics, or have a very tenuous or marginal position in the academic world and are very skilled or adept at using elements of the new technology to build a different kind of platform than the one they would get inside the bubble of official commentary.

"There is a very tenuous security situation which requires our monitoring of what is happening there," he said.

"We're in a very tenuous time.

I think confidence is a very tenuous thing in life".

Eviction can force a change in school and break a very tenuous tie to a job".

"It's a very tenuous, nervous time for Americans," Mr. Dollarhide added.

The Mets stretched what looked like a very tenuous lead to three runs.

Hmmm: there is only a very tenuous link between voting arrangements and the misbehaviour of MPs.