Sentence examples for tenuous environment from inspiring English sources

Their white bosses and coworkers are simply unaware of the "miasma," as Keith Caver and Ancella Livers call this noxious and tenuous environment.

The temporary U.S. pullout, after evacuations by other countries and international businesses, underscored the fluid and tenuous environment in the country three days after a renegade commander from eastern Libya launched an offensive to seize Tripoli.

The F.B.I. has sent investigators — many from its New York field office — to Benghazi, but they have been hampered by the city's tenuous security environment and the fact that they arrived more than a day after the attack occurred, according to senior American officials.

But at the first session of Parliament, the agreement unraveled when Mr. Maliki appointed himself as the minister of both interior and defense, claiming that because of the country's tenuous security environment he needed more time to vet the candidates.

The tenuous lunar environment may have many sources of water; the surface layer is like a permafrost, in complex and active exchange with the atmosphere.

A 27-year-old Arizona man who has recurrent nightmares of being attacked by bears said, "You never know if you will have employment the next day". In such a tenuous economic environment, dream content will naturally reflect people's job-related worries and preoccupations.

To add insult to injury, many men (and women) exacerbate this already tenuous and volatile environment by rushing headlong into a new romance with someone else faster than you can say 'fresh beaver.' We all know somebody like this.

In this paper we re-examined the fundamental physics of charging of a dust particle in the moon environment by tenuous anisotropic solar wind plasma.

Living on shifting land formed by river deltas, the people of Bangladesh have a tenuous hold on their environment, with cyclones buffeting coastal zones and rising seas posing a looming threat.

"Ladee, by going to the moon, has actually allowed us to visit other worlds with similar tenuous atmospheres and dusty environments".

Bone marrow-derived stem cells originate within an entirely different niche to cells that have adapted to survive within the NP with its tenuous nutrient supply and hypoxic environment.