Sentence examples for by tenuous from inspiring English sources

But kept alive by tenuous resupply into the port they barely hold, the rebels have created a maze of fighting positions and tank obstacles.

He asked how many people in the room had fled liberal Massachusetts and its tax rates — and, by tenuous extension, the kinds of policies Romney favors.

It reignited long-simmering tensions years after a decade of intermittent war in Chechnya, a southern Russian republic, was replaced by tenuous stability.

When the solar photosphere is occulted by the Moon, the layers of the Sun's atmosphere flash into prominence, and the spectrum briefly shows the bright lines produced by tenuous hot luminous gas.

The course of Ms. Islam's life in the last eight years has been descent toward family disintegration, followed by tenuous ascent to the relatively stable, but still troubled, situation the family is currently in.

We don't know if these moments ever happened, or how they happened, but we feel the force of them anyway — hovering at some remove from any life, attached to autobiography by tenuous threads, searing into us with feelings whose attachments to reality we can't decisively delineate.

His death, and the deaths of three other US citizens killed by drone strikes, was brought about by a tenuous legal argument disputed by rights groups worldwide.

To Obama, by contrast, the Iraq war is exactly what it appears to be: a catastrophic error that is by no means redeemed by recent tenuous gains in stability.

His grip on power must by now be tenuous.

For the third time in recent years, Australia finds itself with a prime minister motivated almost entirely by survival, rather than leading – paralysed by their tenuous hold on the job and their diminishing authority – with their party looking on in horror but divided as to how to respond.

Recriminations, followed by the sharing of burdened hearts, followed by a tenuous pas de deux of reconciliation and redemption, bring "The Pavilion" to a close.