Sentence examples for sometimes tenuous from inspiring English sources

It underscored NATO's sometimes tenuous grasp of battle lines and raised questions about the forthrightness and accuracy of the alliance's public-relations campaign.

As the Soviet Union crumbled in the late 1980s into the 1990s, a flood of Russians with Jewish ties, sometimes tenuous, departed for Israel.

EVERY day there are new stories in the tabloids about the latest link, sometimes tenuous, sometimes contradictory, between cancer and some aspect of lifestyle.

It's a magpie set that doesn't zero in on Calman's self-unease, but uses it as a (sometimes tenuous) conceptual thread.

As the failed chief executive of a bank that was judged too big to fail, Sir Fred is an accidental multimillionaire.Unfortunately, the relationship between natural justice and the law is sometimes tenuous, as it is in this case.

The letters, from Columbia University in New York, have also been a sometimes tenuous thread between two worlds for more than half a century during which time this once cosmopolitan city was largely cut off from the West.

Brooklyn is the focus of the orchestra's program tomorrow evening, although the connections are sometimes a bit tenuous.

If the nonartists in the realm of art achieve this state — and some of us are privileged to do so — it is partly because of the strange, tenuous, sometimes infuriating world that art dealers help construct, one day, artist or artwork at a time.

Nonetheless, even symmetrical opening lines sometimes illustrate the tenuous nature of White's advantage, in several respects.

As it does so, it is broadening the definition of a record company, embracing businesses that sometimes have only a tenuous connection to music.

Sometimes the link is tenuous enough that you needn't worry about the repercussions of slating someone with your full government name on show, but be careful: you never know when they might wander into your local B@1.