Sentence examples similar to tenuous operation from inspiring English sources
Initial interrogations indicate that the 12 suspects are fishermen, just about as down on their luck as the immigrants they ferried north, with only tenuous connections to the main smuggling operation.
The extent of America's war in Yemen has been among the Obama administration's most closely guarded secrets, as officials worried that news of unilateral American operations could undermine Mr. Saleh's tenuous grip on power.
That role is more tenuous since the Ventura County Community Foundation's recent decision to streamline operations and let the Arts Alliance stand on its own.
On March 7, they will take command of the American sector in NATO's operation there, responsible for ensuring that Bosnia's tenuous peace somehow endures.
The evidence that this organisation exists at all is extremely tenuous, and if it does it is almost certainly the fruit of an Uzbek agent-provocateur operation.
The situation remains tenuous.
But perceptions are tenuous.
