On top of all this, the loss of Mr Maehara, the government's most charismatic politician (and the second of Mr Kan's key ministers to quit this year) will be hard to survive.Let's face it, the longevity of Mr Kan's administration was looking tenuous even before Mr Maehara quit.
NASA's newest lunar probe has officially begun its mission to study the moon's tenuous atmosphere like never before, as well as track how dust moves across the lunar sky.
In the locker room at halftime, they said there was palpable frustration, a sense that the lead they held was tenuous, that the score before the half would come back to haunt them, somehow.
In that time, the spacecraft was programmed to release a parachute and fire nine thrusters to slow its fall through the tenuous, dust-filled atmosphere, before belly-flopping the final two metres to the ground, a crushable underside cushioning the blow.
Up to 30,000 people were killed and a million forced to flee their homes before a tenuous ceasefire was agreed in 1994.
He abandoned the house he had designed and built in upstate New York, and wandered in Alaska, Texas, and Newfoundland before finding a tenuous stability in Naples.
Armenia and Azerbaijan fought a bloody conflict over the disputed territory in the 1990s before reaching a tenuous ceasefire in 1994, but they have not signed a peace deal and clashes erupt regularly.
Shareholders may have been blinded by Facebook's dizzying growth over the past few years, but we now know that the edifice of that growth is far more tenuous than we ever knew before.
Germany held a tenuous 1-0 leat at halftime before opening a comfortable gap by using its size and strength on set plays and denying the Thais any opportunities.
The two men, who were part of a tenuous regional alliance against Sudan before the South Sudan attained independence in 2011, are from different ethnic groups — Kiir is a Dinka, Machar a Nuer — and much of the initial violence in South Sudan's civil war fell along ethnic lines.
