Sentence examples for from the tenuous from inspiring English sources

The fossil record, far from the tenuous succession of gaps described by creationists, provides an admittedly incomplete but beautiful and coherent set of clues to life in the distant past.

But for at least two centuries there have been claims that they wreak more subtle havoc too on the earth's climate.The claims have mostly ranged from the tenuous to the hokum.

Using friction from the tenuous upper layers of the atmosphere in a technique known as aerobraking, MCO will round out its orbit gradually over the next few months before settling in at an altitude of 421 kilometers.

In the spring of 2010, the recession, marching across the land like a zombie army, flushed me from the tenuous life I had cobbled together in LA.

The spectrum of sunlight has approximately the spectrum of a black-body radiating at about 6,000 K, interspersed with atomic absorption lines from the tenuous layers above the photosphere.

At the nearby immigrants' paradise, Coney Island, tenements were routinely set on fire at Dreamland, giving those same immigrants a chance to witness from afar the tenuous world they inhabited on the Lower East Side.

A common thread in the exhibition is vision and the body: being immersed in or excluded from spaces; the tenuous boundary between inside and outside, self and other; and the disorientating effects of shifting perspectives".

Like all implementations of "live and let live," the officers' decisions were made without any authorization from above, and the tenuous truce slowly started to take hold.

The danger is that after NATO and the US withdraw from the country, the tenuous situation they have established could collapse.

There's a very slight -- but non-negligible -- drag force from the very tenuous atmosphere at those high altitudes.

Starting from the most tenuous idea, he worked at white heat, improvising, discarding unpromising ideas, refining successful ones.