Sentence examples for ever tenuous from inspiring English sources

After a decade of political and economic mudslides, Russians who have built some basics of democracy but whose freedoms seem ever tenuous, threatened by corruption, lawlessness and economic decay, are acting as if this election is a referendum on what is important in their lives.

The accumulative impact of these provocations pushed the lever of Israeli tolerance to a breaking point, especially as most Israelis see Turkey as their strongest regional ally in an ever tenuous neighborhood.

And Souter had the power, occasional and ever-tenuous, to tug Kennedy to the left.

Given its pall of war and disease, "Nemesis" is surprisingly dense with happiness — a happiness that's ever-tenuous, and the sweeter for it.

Any time a Muslim civilian is killed because of international involvement in a conflict, jihadists take advantage of it and use to fortify their ever-tenuous relevance in the modern world.

Public broadcasting's ever-tenuous funding places it in a perpetual dilemma and forces it into a delicate balancing act.

Saskia Sassen's Expulsions (Harvard, £22.95) describes the global forces that make ever more tenuous and fragile most people's grip on the places where they live – which is architectural to the extent that inhabitation and place are ultimately the main concerns of architecture.

Iraqi government control in the northern half of the country is becoming ever more tenuous.

Its brief chapters jump from topic to topic, the links between them growing ever more tenuous.

The connection with the original owners is becoming ever more tenuous.

As warming temperatures make traditions like the Vasaloppet ever more tenuous, many Scandinavians are taking steps to divest from the fossil-fuel industry.