Sentence examples for tenuous form from inspiring English sources

Fatah's ongoing conflict with Hamas, the unrest in Gaza and the West Bank, and the institutional failures of the P.A. all point to an increasingly narrow and more tenuous form of leadership, one that is based more on formal elections, and, consequently and paradoxically, on less solid and genuinely representative grounds.

But as for Ukraine, a country that first achieved statehood only in the 20th century, what can it return to now? Can it return to the myths of "Ukrainian-ness" that had taken tenuous form in Galicia in the 19th century?

The continuity of global geochemical cycles over three billion years [ 4] shows that no major prokaryotic group has been driven to extinction, not even methanogens and acetogens, the most energetically tenuous forms of life.

Tenuous allegiances form and dissolve.

The selfie -- it's a real thing and also a semiotic construct, a tenuous art form and a psychological cry for help.

Even small cometlike bodies at the edge of the solar system often have companion moons, to the surprise of astronomers who cannot yet explain how such tenuous gravitational pairings formed.

We came up with the idea of an orbiting structure on the edge of the vulnerable, one where the form looks tenuous.

Even at the remarkably low surface temperature of 38 K (−390 °F, −235 °C) measured by Voyager, a sufficient amount of frozen nitrogen sublimes (passes from a solid directly to a gas) to form a tenuous atmosphere having a near-surface pressure less than 0.00002 bar.

PUIs form a tenuous ((n_{p} simeq 5,times,10^{-5}) cm(^{-3}), (Zirnstein et al. 2014) suprathermal component in the plasma upwind of the HP that is not collisionally equilibrated in the LISM on scales smaller than at least 75 AU (Zank et al. 2014).

Though the Master Chief and Arbiter form a tenuous alliance with the Flood to stop the activation of all the Halo rings, as soon as the firing sequence is stopped Gravemind turns on them.

Despite Jim's mistrust of Silver, they soon form a tenuous father-son relationship (a montage featuring the song "I'm Still Here" shows Jim and the cyborg bonding over various sailing chores, interspersed with flashbacks from Jim's childhood, during which his father appears indifferent to him and finally leaves without warning when Jim is a pre-teen).