Sentence examples for tenuous positions from inspiring English sources

Stern also addressed the tenuous positions of two franchises.

Executives who inflate their credentials have previously found themselves in a tenuous positions.

By nightfall, all four companies held tenuous positions in the thick of German defences.

Many of the Soviet units were sent to the rear that night to be refitted, while others were moved forward to reinforce tenuous positions across the front.

The capture of the airfield allowed German reinforcements to be landed directly on Crete and establish a strong foothold on their otherwise tenuous positions.

The trust eventually will oversee the ailing 93-year-old mogul's controlling interest in Viacom and CBS Corp. "Plaintiffs filed this action as part of an acutely self-interested legal strategy that they began plotting months earlier to secure their tenuous positions with Viacom Inc.," according to the motion filed Friday by Bruce Singal, a Boston attorney who represents Redstone.

But she is in a tenuous position.

And her tenuous position shows just how dangerous a place the political middle has become.

Only wins, a lot of wins, can rescue Randolph from his tenuous position.

Almost gone and still in a tenuous position, Knoblauch wants to stay.

And I put my family into a tenuous position there for a while.