Sentence examples for in a tenuous from inspiring English sources

But she is in a tenuous position.

(I had seen radiographs at home — bones in a tenuous envelope of flesh).

Executives who inflate their credentials have previously found themselves in a tenuous positions.

Comey was forced to start his relationship with the president in a tenuous way.

The Advanced Placement program is engaged in a tenuous balancing act.

With the company in a tenuous state, rivals swooped in and courted dissatisfied customers.

He took office in December 2008 via a tenuous coalition of antagonistic parties created through parliamentary maneuvering rather than through a popular vote.

Why would anyone insist on staying, in such a tenuous place?

In such a tenuous world, Gul concentrates on the one thing that matters: her children.

Play and fun and pleasure have no place in such a tenuous world.

After William Johnson held a large council with the tribes at Detroit in September 1761 a tenuous peace was maintained, but war belts continued to circulate.