The phrase "tenuous argument" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a poorly constructed or badly reasoned argument. For example, "His tenuous argument that global warming isn't real was unconvincing."
Pressed on the point, Ms Krnacova is slightly annoyed, and responds with the tenuous argument that the wealthy may be less prone to corruption, since they are already rich.
In case the counter-intuitive assertion that PACs are separate entities doesn't fly, Justice Kennedy adds another tenuous argument: "PACs are burdensome alternatives; they are expensive to administer and subject to extensive regulations".
But as the coal industry fights for survival, it has begun to rely on novel and increasingly tenuous arguments.
As the coal industry fights for survival, it has begun to rely on novel and increasingly tenuous arguments.
They focus on the explicit codification of the statute of limitations in 286 compared to the tenuous arguments that the Federal Circuit used to shoehorn latches as a defense to legal remedies under 282.
Writing in the Guardian on Thursday, the pair said that as investors have grown increasingly worried about coal assets being overvalued, coal's industrial masters and political friends have embarked on a desperate fightback based on tenuous arguments and exploits an urgent humanitarian need.
Robert Weisberg, a professor at Stanford Law School, said the attorney general appears to be trying to prevent an onslaught of legal claims by prisoners who have tenuous arguments.
His death, and the deaths of three other US citizens killed by drone strikes, was brought about by a tenuous legal argument disputed by rights groups worldwide.
Councillor Chris Watt, cabinet member for childrens' services, said: "This seems to be a clear attempt to use tenuous legal arguments to frustrate the council's and local parents' legitimate desire for Oldfield to serve its local community as a co-educational school.
For example, after seven New Jersey cities enacted paid sick day initiatives last year, a group of big business lobbies (including affiliates of the National Restaurant Association and Chamber of Commerce) sued to block Trenton's law, throwing an array of tenuous legal arguments at the wall.
