The phrase "highly tenuous" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to describe something that is very uncertain, fragile, or weak. It can be used in a sentence to express doubt or skepticism about something. Example: The evidence supporting his theory was highly tenuous, as it was based on speculation rather than concrete facts.
But many industry and accounting experts contend that any premise about power prices 5 or 10 years from now is highly tenuous.
Jessie J has previous in the area of saying stupid things, or at least things that can be interpreted to suggest both an unimaginable self-regard and a highly tenuous connection to reality.
The classified National Intelligence Estimate revealed by the Times last month offers three possible scenarios for Iraq through the end of next year, the best being a highly tenuous stability and the worst preparations for an all-out civil war.
Coburn does not romanticize the ways of Istalif — the quiet the town has enjoyed since the end of the Taliban regime is highly tenuous, and largely the result of tacit agreements among bitter rivals over what to forget and ignore.
Other works about the process of perception range from Matthew McCaslin's "To the Rainbow," in which a humidifier blows steam through light to generate a highly tenuous rainbow on the wall, to Kathy Drasher's untitled octagonal wall piece that leads the eye on a subtle journey from palest orange to rose.
In 1976, when I moved to Los Angeles, I desperately wanted a Mercedes 450 SLC, a car that was — even in used form — far more than I deserved or could afford at my entry-level, highly tenuous work as a scriptwriter.
Increasingly, such separation into various sub-types of till has become, however, highly debatable and tenuous.
To be sure, the recovery in Asia is tenuous, and highly dependent on a recovery in the West, a major market for the region's export-driven economies.
Why have airlines been unable to impose lasting fare increases since Sept. 11? A. Demand is still very tenuous and highly price-sensitive.
There was a distinct pause, and then: "Yes, that's difficult, isn't it?" There might just be one tenuous, and highly debatable, competitor to the Soane Museum as a domestically scaled architectural masterwork from the blue.
The neighbor-joining and Bayesian phylogeny (based on a GTR + I + G substitution model) produced essentially the same topology (Appendix S4): a major split between two clades was highly supported, while a third, more tenuous clade was evident in the neighbor analysis with some support in the Bayesian analysis (posterior probability = 0.60).
