Sentence examples for becomes tenuous from inspiring English sources

A world without things we care about, without reasons to continue when our grip becomes tenuous, is unlivable.

But when rain forced the second delay, Hughes's spot became tenuous.

Yet here we are a decade later and her grip on the national consciousness has become tenuous.

Within the company, James's position became tenuous enough at one point this summer that he and other senior executives considered whether he should step aside, said one person with knowledge of the conversations.

But the company's strategy of operating on razor-thin margins and of adding stores in distressed locations with special payments from landlords became tenuous in recent months as the economy weakened.

Our ability to deter a first-strike attack with an adequate force of survivable counterstrike weapons -- the concept of mutual assured destruction -- had become tenuous in the minds of sensible American leaders, both Republican and Democrat.

That relationship has become tenuous in the last year, as Apple has started a popular advertising campaign aimed at convincing users to dump Windows in favor of the Mac.

There are, however, occasions where optimal placement of the osteotomy site is not possible either due to soft tissue considerations and previous instrumentation, or periarticular deformity in which fixation may become tenuous in the resulting bone fragments [5].

The situation became tenuous when the Berlin Wall was constructed in 1962 and western nations began refusing visas to East German athletes.

Assange's five-year stay in the embassy recently became tenuous, with the Ecuador foreign minister saying earlier this week that his residence there was "untenable".

However, despite attempts by the Germans to build strength for the offensive, their position along the lower Chir River became tenuous; the Soviet breakthrough was only blunted by the arrival of the 11th Panzer Division, which was able to destroy the bulk of two Soviet tank brigades.