Sentence examples similar to tenuous chance from inspiring English sources

Maryland 16-100, 6-7), whose hopes of making the N.C.A.A. tournament are tenuous, will get one last chance at a quality victory before the conference tournament when it visits No. 21 North Carolina (18-6, 9-4) today.

A new feature of the HuffPost Senate Forecast allows readers to move "sliders" to try out different win probabilities for the most competitive seats, and it illustrates the tenuous nature of the overall chance each party will control the Senate.

The election is close enough that if there is even a modest bias in the polls toward Mr. Obama, the president's chances will be tenuous.

A Democratic victory is critical to the party's chance of holding its tenuous Senate majority.

With only two weeks before the annual shareholder meeting of Hercules -- when the vote will be taken -- Mr. Heyman's chance of success appears tenuous.

At the nearby immigrants' paradise, Coney Island, tenements were routinely set on fire at Dreamland, giving those same immigrants a chance to witness from afar the tenuous world they inhabited on the Lower East Side.

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For girls like Bushra already facing the challenge of overcoming this gender-based disparity, the seemingly endless stretch of violence and conflict which continues to grip their country will only make their chances of achieving an education increasingly tenuous.

Mathis's chance at a roster spot would be tenuous if the Jags had better depth at his position.

And those two facts are what make predictions about how Donald Trump simply has no chance against Clinton in the fall so tenuous.

We should be wary of concluding that, just because Gaddafi is doomed to a tenuous grip on Libya, the rebels have any better chance of attaining their goals through military struggle.