Sentence examples for made tenuous from inspiring English sources

"But the gains from the privatization program are made tenuous by political events".

Lindsay, 19, had spent the vast proportion of his life in England, which made tenuous the tabloid obsession with his place of birth.

This interpretation is made tenuous, however, by the lack of a significant change in slope based on the Joinpoint analysis.

Its value is not thereby made tenuous or trivial.

The entire story, writes Mr. Drewniak, "strains to make tenuous connections," and ignores the valid nonpolitical reasons that the indictment was dismissed.

Parnell made it tenuous, but the Mets never lost the lead.

The surprise Russian proposal to defuse the American confrontation with Syria made a tenuous situation even more volatile for a president struggling to convince a deeply skeptical public of the need for the United States to respond militarily in yet another Middle Eastern country, this time in retaliation for the use of chemical weapons.

And, after Nazi extermination and Soviet repression, the anti-Semitism that made life tenuous for Ukraine's Jews has at last given way to toleration from gentiles and even, at times, enthusiasm among those gentiles keen to rediscover the Jewish past.

Felton's wife was becoming more critical of his way of life, and their situation was made more tenuous by the fact that Felton had been corresponding, for his last few months in prison and after his release, with a 21-year-old woman named Erica Chase, a tattooed racist then living in Michigan City, Ind.

Rousseff's situation is made more tenuous also by the uncertainty surrounding Finance Minister Joaquim Levy.

The former secretary of state then also made a tenuous claim: that Sanders's attack on her use of super PACs was also an attack on President Obama.