Sentence examples for tenuous excuse from inspiring English sources

The mischievous leak of the letter – could it have been by its recipient, Boris Johnson? – exposed Grayling's tenuous excuse as utterly fraudulent, since in it he says he has concerns about handing over services to a – shock horror – Labour mayor.

The rest of the show is structured around Calman's nine Reasons Why No One Should Marry Me – most of which are tenuous excuses for self-reflexive comedy.

The obvious solution was to bring them into the US, but the Bush administration clung to the flimsy excuse that it could not allow immigrants into the US with connections to terrorist organisations, despite however tenuous the connection to ETIM.

However Berlusconi is not alone in his desperate attempts to explain away embarrassing situations.. check out our round up of the top ten tenuous political excuses.

I don't know what I'm talking about anymore to be quite honest with you because some time ago I slipped into a white hot rage about anyone anywhere ever using whatever excuse possible such as a half-baked, pseudo-millennial reference to force their insipid and tenuous belief system on an entire world of people.

The calm is tenuous.

A tenuous calm reigns.

The situation remains tenuous.

It's tenuous, obviously.

However, the estimate is tenuous.

But its fate remains tenuous.