Sentence examples for already tenuous from inspiring English sources

And the state's financial and psychic image to the nation, already tenuous, was further set back.

Knowing we violated that trust will drive a wedge in an already tenuous relationship.

Wulff's hold on his job, already tenuous, might not last past the weekend.

Already tenuous ties between the cricket team and the fourth estate were irreparably damaged.

Ms. Smith's article has made the already tenuous tenure of artists in academia even more tenuous.

"The delay will halt efforts to disarm MILF fighters – an already tenuous process.

Auto and steel workers who are afraid of losing their already tenuous and cut-rate jobs.

As Joffe told me, "The violence was possible because the relationship of medicine to abortion was already tenuous".

That very week I took a misstep off a sidewalk curb and reinjured an already tenuous knee.

His already tenuous grasp on sobriety is slipping away even faster since he was involved in a terrible incident.

If these credit premiums should continue, it could erode Enron's trading profits and worsen its already tenuous liquidity situation.