Sentence examples for tenuous account from inspiring English sources

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According to a rather tenuous account of the painting in Vasari's Lives of the Artists (1550), Leonardo began the portrait after his return to Florence from Milan at the beginning of the 16th century, and worked at it, off and on, for four years: this has been translated for convenience to a date of 'c.1503-07'.

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More tenuous was an account of the Mahler Fourth Symphony, chosen because, in Sir Roger's view (conveyed in concise remarks at the start of the concert), it is a work in which Bach's influence can be heard.

Rather, they pool funds in large accounts at a third-party bank, where the money may be covered by so-called "pass-through" insurance, which may be more tenuous, the report says.

Even for Aβ1-42, this account appears tenuous, in view of Bjerke's observation that detergent treatment released similar percentages of Aβ1-42 from adsorption in both control and patient samples [ 57].

Last week Dr. Richard Friedman, a professor of psychiatry, explained that the link between mental illness and violence is tenuous at best and accounts for less than 5% of overall violence at worst.

Some call the survivors "asylum seekers," to account for the tenuous nature of their rights.

And on a few occasions, Blair, an African-American, plays the race card to account for his tenuous hold on his Times job and his emotional swings, but only halfheartedly.

Trump's an unorthodox sort with, by most accounts, a fairly tenuous grasp on modern technologies.

Mr. Guarguaglini's position had become more tenuous in recent weeks as newspapers published accounts of investigations involving Finmeccanica.

What accounts for this popularity, especially in the current tenuous economic climate?

And with good reason: his eighth novel, Minding, already looked awkward and lonely on a list dominated by non-fiction; coming after Gill Hicks' heartrending account, Paling's claim on his audience's attention looked tenuous in the extreme.

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