Sentence examples for more tenuous and from inspiring English sources

Compared to Mr. Obama Mr. Huckabee's situation is much more tenuous, and his victory on Thursday did little to clarify the state of the Republican field.

Booker famously took up residence in a city housing project, but his relationship to Newark's black community was, and still is, more tenuous and complicated than his predecessor's.

"Today's sanction against Bank Tejarat will deepen Iran's financial isolation, make its access to hard currency even more tenuous, and further impair Iran's ability to finance its illicit nuclear program".

At some point, the benefits of breast milk become more tenuous and the issue arises of whether nursing is continuing for the child's benefit or because it gives pleasure to the mother.

Saskia Sassen's Expulsions (Harvard, £22.95) describes the global forces that make ever more tenuous and fragile most people's grip on the places where they live – which is architectural to the extent that inhabitation and place are ultimately the main concerns of architecture.

Denied this information about Mars' core, the inferences become more tenuous and model dependent, but comparison with Earth suggests the level of detail that will emerge once Mars is studied seismologically.

Evaluating the costs and benefits of the assessments that led to these decisions (as opposed to the policies themselves) is more tenuous still, and involves a yet further set of assumptions about the actions that would have been taken in the absence of the assessment (or in response to a different one).

"Although the top leadership of the Taliban is very ideological and very religiously motivated," a Pentagon official said, "the farther you get from Kandahar and Kabul, the more tenuous these relationships and ideological fervor become.

"But the public interest argument becomes far more tenuous for Facebook, and also for Tumblr and for YouTube".

The course is even more tenuous for ALEC and its supporters in the other states, with Ohio looking at a possible state constitutional amendment being placed on the November ballot while proposed measures in Maine and Pennsylvania appear to be the least likely to be approved.

Elective "spaces," however, were more tenuous than expected, and uncertain funding for electives undermined longer-term planning.