Sentence examples for relatively tenuous from inspiring English sources

"Our true 'Yorkshire' kings and queens date back to Viking times, other than that the links are relatively tenuous.

Or, Obama might think that announcing a candidate like Sandoval could hurt the Republicans in the election this fall by splitting their relatively tenuous political coalition.

That's why our model makes Mr. Romney a 77 percent favorite to win Michigan even though he has a relatively tenuous 4-point advantage there.

One of the many barriers to sustainable organizing for those working for sharing-economy apps like Uber and Lyft is that the flexible, cloud-based nature of the service creates a relatively tenuous connection to other workers.

Mr. Sandler said the Edwards case presents even greater challenges because it seems to be relatively tenuous: the definition of campaign contributions under the law is very precise and the legal theory used by prosecutors is more expansive.

Among individual banks, the biggest winners of the government rescue were the weakest firms, notably Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, which had relatively tenuous funding bases and thus were aided the most by the government guarantee on their borrowing.

For the moment, the choice is between Gen. Pervez Musharraf's relatively benign and tenuous dictatorship and some theocratic nightmare.

Species extinction seems to be the baseline in humanity's relationship with the natural world; the notion of sanctuary is a relatively new and tenuous idea.

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.

The course of Ms. Islam's life in the last eight years has been descent toward family disintegration, followed by tenuous ascent to the relatively stable, but still troubled, situation the family is currently in.

The interaction between the solar wind and Mercury is anticipated to be unique because of Mercury's relatively weak intrinsic magnetic field and tenuous neutral exosphere.