Sentence examples for tenuous advantage from inspiring English sources

But it's a tenuous advantage: currently, it's Mandarin-speakers who struggle to translate novel concepts in molecular biology into English, but it could be the other way round.

So if Obama can prod his party to be more responsive and productive and the Republicans continue to oppose the president at every turn, they risk squandering the tremendous but tenuous advantage they have now.

As historian Jonathan Grant writes, the Argentines may have moved first to secure a definite, if momentarily tenuous, advantage over the Chilean Navy.

Under natural variability, late-burn pine holds a slight advantage, although its lead is tenuous using the NRCM 2025 projection of 1 °C as a guide (Table  2).

In the Senate, where they have only a tenuous 51-49 andanthat, and that only thanks to the support of two independents, they could win a commanding majority.

They slinked into the locker room clinging to a tenuous 3-0 advantage because their quarterback had continued with the oldest, most certain way to lose a football game: turn the ball over, especially in the red zone.

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.

After he had already knocked in the go-ahead run four innings earlier, Jeter and the Yankees were trying to preserve their tenuous two-run advantage.

Since his comments, however, Mr. Akin's advantage is more tenuous.

However, this category is meant to focus on fund-raising close to the election, and Mr. Romney's advantage was surprisingly tenuous in January.

(Another party-confounding fact: Terry was shot while on a "hunter and savior" mission, defending illegal immigrants from the violent criminals who take advantage of their tenuous situation, raping women and robbing and killing others).