Sentence examples for tenuous framework from inspiring English sources

Within this tenuous framework, the Nisenan understand that being recognized by the government won't fix the problems they face, but it would provide what Covert called "a safety net" for the tribe.

Scalia, for instance, seemed to be especially aware that the tides of history and logic are eroding the tenuous intellectual framework that would deny the extension of rights to gay men and women.

Asking questions like these highlight not only the punitive framework in which young men's sexuality is cast but also the tenuous positions that young men are in and the lack of control they sometimes feel around their masculinity and sexuality.

The West's tenuous hold on the rule of law and its fluid social fabric necessitated the settling of individual and group conflicts by the use of violence and the exercise of physical courage, and the moral dramas and dilemmas arising within this elemental, even primeval, framework lent themselves remarkably well to motion-picture treatment.

Tenuous Tether.

The calm is tenuous.

A tenuous calm reigns.

The situation remains tenuous.

It's tenuous, obviously.

It was a tenuous line.

However, the estimate is tenuous.