Relations between U.S and China remain tenuous and marked with antagonism and mistrust.
On Thursday morning, a series of explosions across Baghdad killed more than 60 people, marking the deadliest day in the capital in more than a year and underscoring the country's tenuous security.
Times New Viking, a lo-fi trio from Columbus, Ohio, couldn't sound more tenuous: its performances are clumsy and muddled, marked by half-shouted boy-girl vocals, impossibly fuzzy guitar and barely discernible drums.
Mr. Macron, at the head of a fledgling political movement, marked a victory that was always as tenuous as it was momentous.
(The site's 14 February birthday marks the registering of its domain. Tenuous maybe, but it is Valentine's Day so we have love in our hearts and we will let them off).
It was because Alma had been on tenuous financial ground since it opened, in a barely marked, tiny space jigsawed into a grungy part of South Broadway in a not-quite-yet-gentrified quadrant of downtown Los Angeles. .
Morphospecies assignments are marked with 'cf.' in case of juvenile specimens or tenuous morphological characteristics.
Yet this so-called judgment - which requires the corporation to apologise for the documentary - puts a black mark against their names on the most tenuous of grounds.
As a shy 25-year-old, I know that I am going to have to make a mark on that paper eventually, stake a claim, no matter how tenuous.
At the halfway mark, Corbet juxtaposes one of Celeste's dreams and an equally dreamlike music video, suggesting the tenuous links between reality, fantasy and artistic creation.
This technique hits its mark occasionally, with the discussion of music in the chapter on Saturn making an interesting, if somewhat tenuous, new perspective on the planet.
