Sentence examples for narrow and tenuous from inspiring English sources

It is her gauzy garment, and it is held in her narrow and tenuous grip, in her delicate hand.

However, interactions between neuroscience and social science disciplines remain strikingly narrow and tenuous.

Mr. Harper, a Conservative, won a narrow victory and tenuous control of the House of Commons last month by promising that he would make Ottawa more accountable and that he would clean up after several Liberal Party scandals.

Fatah's ongoing conflict with Hamas, the unrest in Gaza and the West Bank, and the institutional failures of the P.A. all point to an increasingly narrow and more tenuous form of leadership, one that is based more on formal elections, and, consequently and paradoxically, on less solid and genuinely representative grounds.

Shacks and tenuous structures wind around miles of narrow dirt tracks.Officials at the scene said some residents had been trapped in their homes, their chances of survival slim.

Increasingly, such separation into various sub-types of till has become, however, highly debatable and tenuous.

They shared a camaraderie that was both intense and tenuous.

The recovery has been slow and painful and tenuous, his relatives said.

Lunar surrounding environments of charged particles, cosmic rays, and tenuous exospheric conditions have been also analyzed.

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

Careers became more flexible - and tenuous.