Sentence examples for is extremely tenuous from inspiring English sources

A former Save the Children worker on Nauru said: "This mother is terrified and the family's situation is extremely tenuous".

The lunar atmosphere is extremely tenuous compared to the Earth's atmosphere.

Mr. Pronk said the overall security situation is extremely tenuous.

Dr Ray Burgess, from the University of Manchester's school of earth, atmospheric and environmental sciences, says: "The signs of the Earth's evolution in the distant past are extremely tenuous, only fragments of highly weathered and altered rocks exists from this time, and for the most part, the evidence is indirect.

It is sometimes said that in extortion the victim consents, although under duress, while in robbery his will is overwhelmed so that there is no consent; but this is an extremely tenuous distinction.

The 31-year-old teacher said she is "well aware that any protections we do have are extremely recent and extremely tenuous".

The analogy between an animal territory and a territorial state is obviously extremely tenuous.

Due to the tenuous nature of morphological characters, phylogenetic reconstructions are extremely difficult [ 6, 11].

However, the sample sizes on the daily samples are extremely small, leading to a larger margin of error and making it hard to calibrate demographic weights, so this evidence is tenuous at best.

In addition to the predominant water ice, solid carbon dioxide is present on the surface, and an extremely tenuous carbon dioxide atmosphere is slowly escaping into space.

Mr. Advani called Pakistan "a theocratic state with an extremely tenuous tradition of democracy" that was "unable to reconcile itself with the reality of a secular, democratic, self-confident and steadily progressing India".