Sentence examples for has grown tenuous from inspiring English sources

The candidate thought to be Mr Daley's top choice, Mary Dempsey, the library commissioner, has expressed reservations that the job will "consume her".Meanwhile, the labour peace that has made school reform possible has grown tenuous.

They seem to have secured their hold on the eastern half of Aleppo, Syria's second city, which had grown tenuous in the face of relentless government bombing and small advances on the ground.

And in recent months, Russia's support for sanctions, though still tenuous, has grown.

However, President Donald Trump has grown increasingly agitated with China, and prospects for such a plan are tenuous.

Mr. Pitt's leadership of the agency had grown increasingly tenuous in recent months with a series of political missteps, including a widely ridiculed effort over the summer to insert a provision in the corporate antifraud legislation that would raise his pay and elevate his status to that of cabinet level.

But Williams's teammates may suffer far more from his absence because their fragile playoff hopes have grown even more tenuous as they face playing the final 11 games without their All-Star center.

Still, it seemed that Sea Shepherd's position in the country had grown much more tenuous.

One is that election news has temporarily snatched some limelight from the disgruntled farmers who, after eight months of tenuous peace with the administration, have grown rowdy again.

Mike Hampton's relationship with the Mets grew tenuous today when the pitcher's agent notified the club that Hampton had chosen to become a free agent.

"Nobody knew!" Because the MTA had largely left the community in the dark about their initial planning, she said, meetings between community leaders and representatives grew tenuous.

When fewer people vote, the connection between the people and the laws that govern them grows tenuous.