Sentence examples for tenuous prospect from inspiring English sources

Many in Yemen's own government say the conflict is less about controlling terrain — always a tenuous prospect in this tribally splintered country — than about Mr. Saleh's struggle to reassert his military powers, in the face of widening insurgencies and intensifying political rivalry in the capital.

Scotland's fading hopes of qualifying for the next World Cup were erased by two late goals in Novi Sad from a Serbia side which thus maintained its own tenuous prospects of advancement.

The international community has been slow in its response, and concerns are growing that the country's already tenuous democratic prospects may be at risk unless the transitional government receives more foreign assistance in meeting people's essential needs.

At least one study has shown that a wind project could be a feasible alternative to coal mining here, although the coal industry's control over the land and the uncertain and often tenuous financial prospects of wind generation appear to make it unlikely to be pursued.

The current coalition of traditional liberalism and Roy Jenkins's social democracy will become more tenuous when the real prospect of political power increases.

For all the cheering locally, his national prospects could prove tenuous.

When she made "Tiny Furniture," the two were close: Dunham was making a low-budget film of tenuous, message-in-a-bottle prospects while her character, Aura, was also struggling to bring D.I.Y. videos of herself to wider attention.

The tenuous nature of Europe's economic prospects was underlined Thursday by data showing that Spain had virtually no growth in the third quarter as demand continued to suffer.

Unfortunately, the prospects for controlling costs are tenuous.

PITTSBURGH — President Obama continued the drumbeat for his jobs plan on Tuesday, even as White House officials acknowledged that the bill's prospects in the Senate were tenuous and Mr. Obama himself vowed not to wait for Congress to advance ideas to get American back to work.

The cases are rooted in different political tensions, but taken together they raise the prospect that the West's already tenuous relationship with the Afghan government could become even less stable.