Sentence examples for quite tenuous from inspiring English sources

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

With some of the Louis material, the connection to the boxer is quite tenuous.

Britain's hold on Nova Scotia was initially quite tenuous, a situation that French and Mi'kmaq resistance leaders capitalized on.

At their densest, they are comparable to the less dense portions of Saturn's main rings such as the C ring and the Cassini Division, but much of Neptune's ring system is quite tenuous, faint and dusty, more closely resembling the rings of Jupiter.

While the United States has frequently chosen to take issue with nations that are on the wrong side of history, in this case it has chosen, in my opinion, a side that is morally quite tenuous when it comes to the Palestinians' right to nationhood.

Because of rivalry and corruption, such consensus is rare in Romanian politics and quite tenuous, noted Dr. Aurel Braun, a professor of international relations and political science at the University of Toronto and research associate at Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

Zubrus, a 32-year-old forward from Lithuania who made his N.H.L. debut with the Philadelphia Flyers 14 years ago, said he had never been in a situation quite as tenuous, but he also said he was excited to play for the Devils, however long that may be.

Ackerman was quite clear: "Tenuous legal structure; warlordism; war; foreign interventionism; corruption".

The Trojans' loss to Arizona State two years ago at Sun Devil Stadium was Kiffin's final game as USC's coach, a fact he learned a few hours afterward when Athletic Director Pat Haden fired him at LAX. Sarkisian's immediate future probably is not quite as tenuous.

Now, we include the last bit only to show you quite how apparently tenuous this whole tale is.

As we have huddled together under the quilts these last three nights, listening to NPR until the batteries died and, then, cut off entirely from the world at large, it was brought home to us quite chillingly how tenuous a hold we have on the 21st century.