Sentence examples for tenuous foothold from inspiring English sources
Others are gaining a small, if tenuous, foothold in England.
Why, then, have employment policies gained only a tenuous foothold in the United States?
In Iraq, civil institutions of law have only a tenuous foothold.
("Hail Columbia" retains a tenuous foothold in modern times as the official song of the vice president).
Today, the virus has one last stronghold in Afghanistan and Pakistan along with a more tenuous foothold in Nigeria.
From 1914 through the early 1920s, Chinese investors were able to gain a tenuous foothold in the scramble to develop the industrial economy.
The story of how merchant adventurers fought for and gained tenuous footholds in trade and, through a series of advances led by men of genius, governed the subcontinent as it took its place as a modern nation is hard to beat in fiction.
"While pioneer modern humans were staking tenuous footholds" in the region, the last Neandertals "were hanging on," Finlayson says.
In this uncannily empathetic satire from 1990, a well-heeled couple on the Upper East Side of Manhattan — Flan Kittredge (Mr. Hickey), an art dealer, and his wife, Ouisa (Ms. Janney) — come to realize just how tenuous their foothold on the good life is, when Paul stumbles into their world one night.
Even after the Armory Show spawned galleries like Washington Square and the Modern and journals like The Soil and The Blind Man to compete on Stieglitz's formerly solitary turf, modernism's foothold in America remained tenuous into the early 1920's.
The capture of the airfield allowed German reinforcements to be landed directly on Crete and establish a strong foothold on their otherwise tenuous positions.
