Sentence examples similar to tenuous pledge from inspiring English sources

The Shabab, which has pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda, is now left with a tenuous grip on a few small towns in southern and central Somalia.

The blunder and apparent lack of coordination between the city's leaders helped turn Occupy Oakland from a tenuous collection of protesters into a grassroots movement whose members have pledged to shut down the city on 2 November.

Considering this tenuous relationship between mayors and mass transit, there was a great deal of skepticism when Michael R. Bloomberg pledged last year to take public transportation every day he went to City Hall, if the voters would only send him there.

Tenuous Tether.

The calm is tenuous.

A tenuous calm reigns.

The situation remains tenuous.

It's tenuous, obviously.

But perceptions are tenuous.

But security remains tenuous.

It's tenuous".