Sentence examples similar to tenuous proposals from inspiring English sources

The grounds for this proposal are tenuous, however (Fraser, 2003).

The surprise Russian proposal to defuse the American confrontation with Syria made a tenuous situation even more volatile for a president struggling to convince a deeply skeptical public of the need for the United States to respond militarily in yet another Middle Eastern country, this time in retaliation for the use of chemical weapons.

Critics of Forbes's proposal pointed out that the link between taxes and growth is tenuous, but it proved popular with Republican activists, and Bush, whose father had enraged conservatives by reneging on his "no new taxes" pledge, came under pressure to match it.

There may be a rather tenuous relationship between the initial application and the modified, often greatly improved, full proposal, and the lack of power due to only 60 studies being funded, means that we may have missed important predictors of success at the final funding board.

Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, who as a House member in the late 1990s was part of a successful coup to unseat Speaker Newt Gingrich, described Mr. Boehner's tenuous state more bluntly, worrying aloud that if Mr. Boehner is unable to pass some proposal out of the House, the speaker may find himself in "a compromised situation".

Even as, according to Pew, 64percentt of Americans "somewhat" or "strongly agree" that the government should "work to substantially reduce" the gap between rich and poor, New York's new mayor has limited his redistributive proposals to a small tax on the very wealthy, which suggests he is aware of the tenuous support more radical alternatives would receive.

The calm is tenuous.

A tenuous calm reigns.

The situation remains tenuous.

It's tenuous, obviously.

But perceptions are tenuous.