Sentence examples for not tenuous from inspiring English sources

The atmosphere, he explained, would have had to be relatively dense -- not tenuous, as it is today -- for the Martian surface to have had craters filled with lakes of water.

There is some creative form of production I understand as having to do with blackness, which somehow exists within the endlessly connected black diaspora, but many of those links — between black artists, between works of art and their black creators, and even between countries and continents — have seemed stretchy if not tenuous.

And if that is not quite tenuous enough, LeFevre didn't actually work at Goldman Sachs.

The link between the benign and the brutal is not as tenuous as one might think.

It's not too tenuous a stretch, given that Miró was thinking along these lines in ways that involved pattern as well as color.

But, on closer examination, the events of the past week showed not how tenuous his grip on power has become, but rather how far international efforts to loosen it have yet to go.

But will fans listen to what it has to say? Research suggests the link between sport and behaviour change isn't as tenuous as it sounds.

The geographical connection is not all that tenuous either, Mortan points out, given that for centuries the Faroese exported salt cod to Spain.

"Why not use his tenuous status to set the agenda for him instead of him dictating fiscal and social policy?" Stringing the governor along while his opponents remake the state budget is not an option, Democrats said.

The link may seem a little tenuous, not least because those forced from their land in the 1939 novel are economic rather than political migrants, but the synchronicity between then and now is clear, in my mind, at least.

The martial triumphalism has inevitably drawn comparisons with Triumph Of The Will but the connection is tenuous – not least because Leni Riefenstahl had the funds, hardware and ranked personnel of the Third Reich at her disposal.