Sentence examples for tenuous footing from inspiring English sources

For all the encomiums, though, Mr. Holbrooke was on tenuous footing with the White House.

"Stocks were on a tenuous footing to begin with," said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Trust and Savings Bank.

From this tenuous footing, Sakai managed to scramble to the roof of a nearby building that hadn't washed away.

They retail for $18 to $20 a pound in fillet form and to date have a tenuous foot in the market.

But he acknowledged that the board was on tenuous legal footing because of the challenges in the Supreme Court.

"The major part of slowing down is being done with your heat shield," says Rasky. "It's a very tenuous atmosphere – similar to 100,000 feet [30,000 metres] here on Earth – but if you design things right, you can still slow things down enough that you can land safely".

"The ongoing violence reflects the fact that the leadership has a very tenuous hold over commanders and foot soldiers," said Emily Winter Botham, a former advisor to the European Union in Kabul.

The audience is guided from the second floor, down a staircase to the first-floor theater where Tara O'Con, Maria Parshina, Alli Ruszkowski and Richert Schnorr — the dancers, clearly delineated by their bare feet — chat with audience members to create a tenuous sense of trust.

It seems to me that Ms. Smith and the word "practice" have gotten off on the wrong foot and that she makes too much of some tenuous inferences.

The Wilkins Ice Shelf, a floating ice sheet several hundred feet thick the size of Connecticut, may sever its tenuous grip on the peninsula and join eight other large ice shelves that have departed since 1980.

But survival is tenuous for natives like the Indiana bat, Kirtland's warbler and nearly two-foot-long Ozark hellbender salamander.