Sentence examples for tenuous business from inspiring English sources
I knew that politics was a tenuous business and you have to prepare for the worst.
Government is the largest employer; many people run tenuous businesses like tea shops or tiny stores.
Two tenuous decades into the business, Ms. Rowley, who started out with $3,000 in seed money from her grandmother and never took on partners or backers, is not just solvent, she's turning into a brand.
Sure enough, the album opened big, but in a way that reflected the tenuous transitional state of the record business.
"The business case is a bit tenuous," he said.
Even before "the wreck" in prices, he said, his business had been growing increasingly tenuous.
From the beginning, Jackson's economic campaign has been somewhat tenuous morally, mainly because his dealings with business look so much like shakedowns.
The business case was just as tenuous as that of the failed Lincoln Blackwood, yet with an 11-year run the Escalade EXT disproved the notion that a luxury pickup is a sales-proof oxymoron.
As it does so, it is broadening the definition of a record company, embracing businesses that sometimes have only a tenuous connection to music.
But by throwing Apple's future ownership into doubt, and confusing its customers and business partners, Ellison had weakened Amelio's tenuous hold on Apple.
