Sentence examples for of a tenuous from inspiring English sources

This consists of a tenuous shaft of vapor rising from the floor of the basilica into the dome.

Here, the female prison is not marred by abuse; it is a place of sorority, albeit of a tenuous kind.

Maybe in this era of a tenuous Pax Americana, we look back unwittingly to the stability of the Pax Romana.

Signs are emerging of a tenuous security situation in parts of southern Iraq, generally considered calmer than the north.

Isango has in a recent press release tried to claim some sort of special status by virtue of a tenuous connection with the history of District Six.

The spectroscopic studies also led to the discovery of solid carbon dioxide on Callisto and the presence of a tenuous, continuously escaping atmosphere of carbon dioxide.

So this means that the prediction of a geometric series of periods is based on a tenuous analysis with an uncertain range of validity.

The cuts, while differing by country, are intended to give a measure of stability to a tenuous spurt of economic growth.

"It is tragic that recent legislation can mean that the assets of a bona fide museum can effectively be seized by the Pension Protection Fund because of such a tenuous link through a handful of employees".

Developments in air-coupled transduction and electronics are briefly treated, although the emphasis here is on methods of characterization and inspection, and in overcoming limitations inherent in the use of such a tenuous sound coupling medium as air.

More blood has been spilled in the Amazon, this time in the Madre de Dios region of Peru, where a tenuous strand of road connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through Peruvian and Brazilian rain forests is slowly being paved.