Sentence examples for long and tenuous from inspiring English sources

It's a long and tenuous supply chain, which makes it leaky and vulnerable.

Regan's journey of advocacy, persuasion and meticulous concept design inside her government world was long and tenuous.

The path to absolution is long and tenuous, but hiding and issuing denials about his own alleged violations will not get him there.

It was worn out, at the end of a long and tenuous supply line (Model had been promoted on 28 October, and needed two weeks just to get to Kalinin), and the cold weather was starting to hamper the Germans.

Between 22 April and 29 May 1943, the 2/7th Infantry Battalion, at the end of a long and tenuous supply line, unsuccessfully attacked the southern extremity of Japanese lines, the Mubo area, at features known to the Allies as "The Pimple" and "Green Hill", north of Lababia Ridge.

My own relations with the Congress, which began on a remote and tenuous basis when, long ago, a member of the Senate appointed me to West Point, have since ranged to the intimate during the war and immediate post-war period, and, finally, to the mutually interdependent during these past eight years.

His path from the sidelines to becoming a crucial cog in the government machinery has been long and tortuous and illustrates how tenuous the Greens' grip on power remains.

But many economists wonder how long the tenuous calm on debt markets can last, and speculation has mounted that Spain will be the first country to take advantage of the offer.

Their status in Lebanon has long divided lawmakers here, another point of contention in a decades-old debate over the country's already complicated and tenuous system of sharing power among Christians, Sunni Muslims, Shiite Muslims and Druse.

The increasingly cold and tenuous universe, continuing in its eternal expansion, then entered a barren, quiet and dark phase that was hundreds of millions of years long.

They shared a camaraderie that was both intense and tenuous.