Sentence examples for tenuous agreement from inspiring English sources

And while he and greenmarket officials came to a tenuous agreement to coexist last summer, the jockeying for sidewalk space will soon resume as the greenmarket reopens next month.

But according to the tenets of interest-based bargaining, focusing too much on objective criteria such as price, or salary in the case of faculty positions, can produce a tenuous agreement in which basic human needs--security, economic well-being, a sense of belonging, recognition, control over one's life--are not met.

A tenuous agreement on a bailout plan for Wall Street that had been reached Thursday morning was threatening to fall apart by the time evening had arrived.

A TENUOUS ceasefire agreement and a few days of relative quiet have provided war-weary Israelis and Palestinians with a glimmer of hope.

Mr Rajapaksa first won the presidency in 2005 when Sri Lanka was in the middle of a tenuous ceasefire agreement with the Tamil Tiger rebels.

In August 1693 Phips reached a tenuous peace agreement with the Abenaki people; it was eventually subverted by French intrigues to bring the Abenaki back on the warpath, and had no lasting impact.

As fighting rages around eastern Ukraine despite a tenuous ceasefire agreement between Russian separatists and the Ukrainian government, bodies continue to pile up in the morgues of Donetsk, with officials reporting at least 20 deaths over the last two days, according to Russian media.

At the close of the year, the conflict in eastern Ukraine continued despite a tenuous cease-fire agreement between the Ukrainian government and pro-Russian militants.

Many ethnic groups have signed tenuous cease-fire agreements in recent months.

Private equity firm Actis' deal to buy into one of India's only remaining large domestic confectionery players, Nutrine was called off at the eleventh hour early this week underscoring once again how tenuous are the agreements reached with family-owned businesses in Asia.

When the leaders met on Wednesday night to broker the agreement — however tenuous it seemed — it was the American ambassador, James F. Jeffrey, who was in the room, not the one from Iran, according to Antony J. Blinken, the national security adviser to Mr. Biden.