Sentence examples for tenuous order from inspiring English sources

When God unleashes Satan on the tenuous order of Job's world, things fall apart fast, in the lurid style that Mr. Bradshaw favors.

It's a tenuous order — "Phone my family, tell them I'm lost on the sidewalk," Tweedy sings — but a real one, at least for now.

That is what happened in Iraq, and it was hugely expensive for us to rebuild a new, and still tenuous, order there.

Marta tries to do just that, but her own peace and order are tenuous in the extreme.

The relative calm is the result of entrenched traditions respecting authority and favoring order, however tenuous, over chaos.

Following the coup on 24 March 2013, the security situation continues to be tenuous as law and order have yet to be fully restored in the capital.

Malev's situation had been more tenuous since the European Commission ordered it in January to repay about 100 billion forints of state aid, including loans and debt deferrals, that it had received from 2007 to 2010.

Some federal district courts have granted nothing, stating that the link between Amy's harm and the act of possession is too tenuous to support a restitution order.

The legal distinction between Gates' position and Craddock's order might seem tenuous, but it is simply that Gates did not preclude the need for evidence to assassinate civilians in the drug trade, and Craddock granted carte blanche to commit masses of summary executions of the usual suspects sans, "intelligence or other evidence".

In Moscow, the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev wildly exaggerated the significance of Sputnik in order to tighten his tenuous grip on power, while the Soviet scientists responsible for the satellite touted their accomplishment to maintain the patronage of top policy makers.

Such sales – once part of cold war rituals accompanying the rivalry with the Soviet Union – always had the dual purpose of keeping internal order and maintaining the tenuous balance of arms with Israel.