At its worst, it is exploitative, coming up with products that make a tenuous link with the concept of halal – patronising customers in the way that some suppliers seek to create "girly" versions of mainstream products.
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.
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.
In a signal of just how committed Democrats are to using the gun issue in 2016, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee started running radio ads on Thursday blaming certain vulnerable Republicans for their refusal to take up the terrorist watch list gun legislation, using previous question votes with the gun legislation attached to make a tenuous attack.
But let's face it, there isn't much of a difference between this year and the last, and if you were an obnoxious drunk last year there's a good chance you're going to be the same obnoxious drunk this year if all you've done is make a tenuous new year's resolution.
Tonight, Emo addresses racism ("I like the south. But of course, I'm prejudiced"), Avatar and Christianity (he tells his recent poll-winning best religious joke of all time), while making only a tenuous effort to connect one subject to the next.
When she made "Tiny Furniture," the two were close: Dunham was making a low-budget film of tenuous, message-in-a-bottle prospects while her character, Aura, was also struggling to bring D.I.Y. videos of herself to wider attention.
Professor Bass of Princeton says that while he's not sure war-crimes indictments are always the way to go in the midst of a conflict, he does think indictments sometimes embolden a country's opposition, making a despot's reign more tenuous.
That makes for a tenuous connection between Latin American stocks and the Nasdaq.
Pressed for an answer, Jummy made up a tenuous story about a cousin hooking him up.
