Sentence examples for is tenuous to from inspiring English sources

"The Madness of King George" (1994) was terrific, but its connection to American events is tenuous to the point of nonexistence.

First, and in contrast to chloroplasts and mitochondria, the nuclear compartment is in no way homologous to a prokaryotic cell, hence the whole (100 year old) notion that the nucleus was ever an endosymbiont is tenuous to begin with [ 120].

These things are tenuous to say the least".

Jackson's links to Fulham are tenuous to say the least - he watched a game there as a guest of Al Fayed in 1999 - while the singer was also dogged by controversy during his lifetime.

But the dissection of individual justification put forward for the ban are tenuous, to say the least, so that the modern doctrine will allow Kagan and Kennedy to invalidate the ban without having to break new ground for the first time.

And its authority over much of its territory is tenuous: according to the United States Department of State, "entire regions…are now essentially under the control of drug-trafficking organisations".

A supposed portrait from 1585 shows a sardonic-looking young man in a snazzy velvet doublet, though the evidence that it is him is tenuous, and to identify the portrait as Marlowe's is in itself a kind of fictionalizing.

Its meaning is tenuous, seems to change significance at will, depending on context -- it's amorphous, euphemistic, inflammatory.

I hate to break it to you but you need to get a much more solid grip on reality because the one that you have appears to be tenuous at best.

I still find the proposed specific link between the microbiome and religious behaviors to be tenuous at best.

Yet in a city where cultural financing is tenuous, it is important to seize on new openings as they come about.