Sentence examples for tenuous control from inspiring English sources

The Taira were victorious, and they maintained tenuous control over the court until 1185.

That might happen if the FARC's tenuous control over Catatumbo weakens.

A large part of the electorate supported the PPD, which gained tenuous control over the legislature.

His tenuous control last night gave the Marlins the opening they needed to stop their four-game losing streak.

With Dupuis's cooperation, Garnier attacked the Hanoi citadel and extended tenuous control over other parts of the Red River delta.

Others say Twitpic's move shows the tenuous control people have over what they post through Internet services.

He has a tenuous 51% control of Turkcell through an inverse pyramid of shareholdings (see chart).

As Boko Haram terrorizes the area surrounding this city, as many as 400,000 people have fled to this island of tenuous government control.

And similarly, the technical distinctions on which a finding of "trespass" so often depends are too tenuous to control decision regarding the scope of the vital liberties guaranteed by the Constitution.

I recognise the tricks that time plays on me; how cruelly long particular minutes or hours can seem, especially at weekends; how tenuous my control – my sanity, even – feels at times.

Still, this week, perhaps emboldened by public disgust at the latest murders, the government for the first time admitted that it had expressly authorised the American operation.Despite his tenuous security control, Mr Saleh is expected to weather the storm, as he has so often done before in his 24 years in power.