Sentence examples for tenuous plight from inspiring English sources

Its tenuous plight as the honest tradesman of the TV news business is reflected in the scripts of "The Newsroom" — Will McAvoy works for Atlantis World Media, named after a lost kingdom, and there are liberal sprinklings of "Man of La Mancha," with arguments over who is being more quixotic.

On some level, this last debate is rendered superfluous because most eurozone members will not get anywhere near satisfying the fiscal rules for some considerable time and so the imposition of financial penalties in the interim would make their plight even more tenuous.

Many of the Yazidi took tenuous refuge on the rugged slopes of Mt. Sinjar, their plight focusing global attention on the extremist threat.

Tenuous Tether.

The continuing plight of a group of young lawyers at Kaye Scholer, a 93-year-old international law firm with nine offices and more than 450 lawyers, illustrates the tenuous status of today's associate.

The calm is tenuous.

A tenuous calm reigns.

"I understand her plight".

The situation remains tenuous.

Few understood my plight.

Their plight is common.