Sentence examples for tenuous ground from inspiring English sources

"He is on tenuous ground with some Republicans anyway".

Notre Dame's loss puts them on tenuous ground for the NCAA tournament.

At roughly the same time, Becca is hit with the body blow of discovering that her relationship with Gabe may be on tenuous ground.

"I just shut up and wondered if he could really detain me on the tenuous ground of verbal interference," Mr. Kay said.

"The focus," he added, "is always on the future — how will business be six months, or a year or two, from now?" When the economy appears to be on tenuous ground, as it does today, he said, "stock investors looking well out to the future are able to perceive the seeds of the next economic expansion".

As the financing markets became more adverse in the summer of 2007, the buyout was on tenuous ground.

Newt Gingrich was already on tenuous grounds on electability, and when he dared to critique Mr. Ryan's Medicare plan, he was shunned by the party.

"If this is approved for recognition as a restored land on fairly tenuous grounds, it would provide an incentive for other reservation-shopping opportunities," Mr. Gedes said.

And now Mr Gore's prospects of another shot at the title look vanishingly small.The fact remains, he did hang on too long and on increasingly tenuous grounds.

With Ghosts, the Call of Duty series, which once was set during World War II and then moved to fictional conflicts that evoked the ones in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Cold War, fully abandons even a tenuous grounding in the drama of real-world warfare.

For most of them provide, at best, very tenuous grounds for any conclusion concerning the moral character of any omnipotent and omniscient being who may happen to exist, and almost none of them provides any support for the hypothesis that there is an omnipotent and omniscient being who is also morally perfect.