Sentence examples for in a tenuous position from inspiring English sources

But she is in a tenuous position.

Almost gone and still in a tenuous position, Knoblauch wants to stay.

It also puts the city in a tenuous position of being perceived as a tool for pressuring a union.

The decision leaves Alosi, who had already been suspended indefinitely and fined $25,000 by the team, in a tenuous position with the Jets, who have been tailed by on- and off-field distractions this season.

Indeed, guest workers are in a tenuous position, usually living in labor camps or other housing run by their employers, with little connection to the surrounding community, and little understanding of their legal rights.

While the Twins are still in a tenuous position after splitting the four-game series, they have guaranteed that Friday's game against the Kansas City Royals will be meaningful.

And I put my family into a tenuous position there for a while.

But the fact that it took Trachsel until the middle of July to turn in a performance like this is one reason the Mets are in such a tenuous position, trying to believe their season can still be meaningful.

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

It just allows me to see how compromised the situation of organists is in this country today -- what a tenuous position they are in, in terms of job security, personal and community identity.

In an email Jared wrote us, he says he's "exhausted his pool of supportive friends" and is now at the mercy of strangers who give a shit about the arts, which is a tenuous position to be in.