Sentence examples for on tenuous grounds from inspiring English sources

Newt Gingrich was already on tenuous grounds on electability, and when he dared to critique Mr. Ryan's Medicare plan, he was shunned by the party.

So far, it seems like old style affirmative action that often gave preferences to racial and ethnic minorities in competitive situations is on tenuous grounds.

The Sheriff's relationship with the media began on tenuous grounds but was flipped almost completely around by an ingenious but gutsy decision by the Sheriff.

The religious views they espouse will likely be considered protected one way or the other, so that the government is on tenuous ground in requiring them to contradict their professed beliefs.

"He is on tenuous ground with some Republicans anyway".

Notre Dame's loss puts them on tenuous ground for the NCAA tournament.

At roughly the same time, Becca is hit with the body blow of discovering that her relationship with Gabe may be on tenuous ground.

"The focus," he added, "is always on the future — how will business be six months, or a year or two, from now?" When the economy appears to be on tenuous ground, as it does today, he said, "stock investors looking well out to the future are able to perceive the seeds of the next economic expansion".

As the financing markets became more adverse in the summer of 2007, the buyout was on tenuous ground.

Now at the St. James Theater, the production, headlined by Harry Connick, Jr., and reconceived and directed by Michael Mayer, is on tenuous ground.

All four of them seem on tenuous ground considering a combination of their college football prospects this weekend and their combined, averaged polling numbers for election day as calculated by Realclearpolitics.com.com