Sentence examples for tenuous case from inspiring English sources

What's more, his very presence in the Rose Garden might undermine the already tenuous case for affirmative action in hiring and school admissions.

That's because the more AT&T can marginalize T-Mobile, the more its tenuous case to take over T-Mobile will remain on life support.

Since then, the state has pursued a tenuous disciplinary case against Mr. Monsour, and it also tried to pressure the State Senate to disinvite him from a panel discussion.

While the ties to international terrorist cells are more tenuous in this case, it is clear that extremist beliefs played a crucial role.

This connection was deemed too tenuous in the case of Vulcan (the ancient Roman god of fire and volcanoes), SETI officials said, adding that the name has also already been used in astronomy.

The relationship between MutPred values and residue evolutionary conservation therefore appears to be rather more tenuous in the case of the missense polymorphisms than it is for the missense mutations.

His father, James C. Kellogg, 63, was also charged, but his lawyer, William H. Thomas Jr., said the elder man's link to the case is tenuous.

So why on earth would we put these men on a plane to America, where the nexus with the case is tenuous at best?

It "could be a tenuous relationship" or a case of "the attraction of a known brand-name and being associated with something much bigger" than the local cause, he said.

In any case, the tenuous, even fractious nature of the relationships on the show is often what makes them interesting; it's easy to be invested in the story of two people who aren't sure if they can trust themselves or each other.

Often, especially in cases with tenuous circumstances, teams confer with the commissioner's office before making a move in order to ensure they can do it.