Sentence examples for more tenuous position from inspiring English sources

With every Pacquiao triumph, every career ended, Trampler finds himself in a less enviable, more tenuous position.

All this leaves the Vikings in a more tenuous position than they expected when training camp began last Friday at Minnesota State University.

(One online listing includes the antiome: "The totality of people who object to the propagation of omes"). The Brain Initiative, the United States government's 12-year, $4.5 billion brain-mapping effort, is a conscious echo of the genome project, but neuroscientists find themselves in a far more tenuous position at the outset.

In the long run, bad debt can limit your choices, and leave you in a more tenuous position than you started in.

Maduro's victory Sunday gives the Chavismo government a far more tenuous position.

"If you're Duke or Wake, you'd probably be in a more tenuous position, especially based on what kind of revenue they'd be generating for football".

Privatizing public sector activities where possible, and where not, turning Government functions over to Next Steps Agencies, was the tool to enable this contractorisation, even if the agencies, being fully owned by Government, could only operate in a quasi-contractual way, with the main sanctions being exercised though the now more tenuous positions of their Chief Executives.

He occupies a more tenuous place in the hearts of listeners.

Adding to the jitters, MF Global reported a third-quarter loss, which further eroded its stock and made its capital position even more tenuous.

But there's a growing sense among conservatives that Ryan's position is more tenuous than he anticipates, especially if he passes a clean debt ceiling raise with the help of almost every Democrat and a small coalition of Republicans.

Famed Hollywood figures Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, and Bryan Singer have been the subject of disturbing accusations of child sexual abuse over the years, but as Molly Lambert recently wrote for MTV News, "Bambaataa's position is more tenuous... because he is not protected financially or insulated from the backlash" in the way many white men are.