Sentence examples for tenuous authority from inspiring English sources

Governments, with only tenuous authority in such a conflict-ridden country, have dodged this controversial possibility.

Shanghai's government was less thrilled; he has since been held under house arrest.The very public resignation is a blow to the CCPA's already tenuous authority.

Analysts said that while the report was useful in drawing international attention to the severity of the events in southern Kyrgyzstan a year ago, it could also undermine the tenuous authority of Ms. Otunbayeva.

Angry at this new affront to its tenuous authority, the transitional government held a news conference here on Sunday to announce that any stations that had capitulated to the insurgent ultimatum would be punished with shutdowns.

It is the mother, ordinarily a tenuous authority in moral matters, who perceives "the chain of continuity that was broken when the Nazis were here," and that she herself did little to repair.

He wants to use the tenuous authority the court has granted him — the legitimacy of which many still challenge — to impose yet a third version of net neutrality rules.

Their protest won them a reprieve, but thousands of others are not so lucky: at the Focus E15 stall you hear of families evicted by council-hired bailiffs who break in at 6am, often acting on tenuous legal authority.

For some years up to the end of World War I this area was under a tenuous German colonial authority.

Chris Wendelken, seated in the middle, wears dark red lipstick, applied Joker-style (and we briefly see on the screen an image of Heath Ledger as that villain), and seems to have an added, if tenuous, layer of authority.

Leaders in Haiti, where the state holds a tenuous grasp on authority, twice passed plastic bans a few years ago.

On the other hand, the almost-clandestine ceremony might better reflect the tenuous nature of the "authority" the United States occupying forces had in the first place.