Sentence examples for present tenuous from inspiring English sources

In its present tenuous shape, "Constant Star" could be offered as a lecture circuit booking.

Overall, results from this investigation indicate that comparison of metrics derived from measures of sediment transport presence/absence (such as threshold) with different PSTSs is, at present, tenuous.

Symbian's hold on the lead is, at present, tenuous at best: while it powered more than half of the smartphones in the EU5 last year, usage has slipped to 37.8%, a drastic shift by any stretch.

The connections between past and present feel tenuous, and the Oprah-ready mood of uplift is tainted with a strain of cuteness (Holden).

Many people in Tilbury told me they felt cut off from the rhythms of the port and the water it looks out on, particularly the younger generation, for whom any connection with the area's riverside — past or present — is tenuous.

Players can look to coming to Wasps as one of the country's premier clubs rather than a team with a glorious history but a tenuous present".

The instrument, basically consisting of two spectrophotometers (EUV: 50 150 nm, FUV: 145 330 nm) and one scanning mirror, aims at measuring emission lines from molecules, atoms and ions present in the tenuous atmosphere of Mercury.

This presents a seemingly tenuous situation, where the host is dependent on its symbiotic bacteria to survive, but these same bacteria have irrevocably lost the genomic dynamism typical of bacteria and are incapable of restoring genes that are lost through genome reduction.

Any tenuous atmosphere present would be less than one-sixth of a millionth as dense as the air surrounding the Earth, the reports said.

The present regime, with a tenuous popular mandate and under constant attack from Islamists, would presumably find it even harder than most.

Oxygen is often present in Europa's tenuous atmosphere, and sometimes it's more concentrated in the space above the moon's southern hemisphere, Roth says.