Sentence examples for could be tenuous from inspiring English sources

In addition, if the Giants do not make the playoffs this season, Coach Tom Coughlin's job status could be tenuous.

In the Victorian era, women's lives could be tenuous: a number of female soldiers were orphans, widows and escaping abused children and wives and prostitutes.

However, Perez's position with McLaren could be tenuous even for next year, let alone in 2015 when Honda return and are likely to insist on another big name – Fernando Alonso's was most memorably mentioned in Singapore  – to join Jenson Button.

The Yankees already have four outfielders -- O'Neill, Bernie Williams, Ricky Ledee and Shane Spencer -- but Spencer's future with the team could be tenuous if he does not perform well in spring training.

Judging from the wealth of optimism levied against NOC, this support could be tenuous at best.

Even the local authorities have accepted that the current return of apparent peace to La Paz could be tenuous.

It "could be a tenuous relationship" or a case of "the attraction of a known brand-name and being associated with something much bigger" than the local cause, he said.

The position may be tenuous and could end with the end of the Bush administration.

A team in the Chinese league could be compared to a tenuous geopolitical coalition.

Now, in the sometimes unexplainable world of George Steinbrenner, Torre's future, which is, incredibly, still tenuous, could be determined by his players.

The low mass and volume of such an instrument would make it well-suited for both small satellite Earth-orbiting missions and larger outer planet missions from which it could be used to characterise the tenuous atmospheres observed at several moons, as well as studying the auroral emissions of the gas giants.