Sentence examples for tenuous on from inspiring English sources

But security remained tenuous on Saturday.

Swallowing Mr. Espada and all the controversies that come with him enabled them to secure a hold, however tenuous, on the State Senate, a repository of power and privilege that had been in Republican hands for four decades.

It was also a victory for the administration in the sense of assembling another international coalition, however reluctant and tenuous, on an issue that it had explicitly cast as part of its effort to combat terror.

Because the reserve draws some sort of line, however tenuous, on how much JPMorgan may be required to pay and because the bank demonstrated an ability to nonetheless continue to crank out profits, its shares rose on the news.But all of this was of only limited comfort for JPMorgan, banks in general, and the financial system.

Some people even ventured to say that Mr. Bush did himself some good by showing that he was capable of diving into the scientific weeds and taking a stand, no matter how tenuous, on an issue where there seemed to be no satisfactory answers.

Despite moves by the military to tighten its control of the capital, President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada's hold on power grew more tenuous on Tuesday, as demonstrations demanding his resignation spread to provincial cities, and important political allies scrambled to distance themselves from him.

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.

A FRAIL president, nearly blind from a stroke and with a tenuous grip on power, goes on a long overseas trip.

But given the anger over the Jewish state on their streets and their own tenuous hold on power, not to invade was even more perilous.

As Grant Wahl writes on SI.com, it was a lifeless performance that Martin Rogers argues on Yahoo.com will not help Coach Bob Bradley's tenuous hold on his job.

Leetch's fifth goal of the season gave the Rangers 69 points on the season and allowed them to keep their tenuous hold on seventh place.