Sentence examples for tenuous relations from inspiring English sources

It has failed to reach its full potential, however, due to tenuous relations with its neighbors.

Winning the trust of Jewish Democratic voters is all the more difficult for Mr. Obama because of the tenuous relations between blacks and Jews.

The United States typically grants visas to diplomats and heads of state from around the world, including from Iran, Venezuela and other nations with tenuous relations with Washington, to visit UN headquarters in New York City.

If a U.S. trade ban caused the company to fold, it's easy to see how that could severely impact already tenuous relations between the two countries.

In the past 20 years, archaeologists and Native Americans have achieved a measure of reconciliation, but a new controversy threatens their tenuous relations.

The importance of effective communication in veterinary service provision in Nigeria - 'especially when government agencies are dealing with people who have had only tenuous relations with them' - has been acknowledged for decades (Awogbade [1979]).

When, in March 1989, Italian authorities requested that the bronze be returned, Getty Museum director John Walsh replied that the request was an "unwelcome surprise". The statue has "little possibility of being related to Italian cultural heritage," he wrote, and only a "tenuous relation" to Italy's patrimony.

These definitions have only a tenuous relation to Wagner's unsystematic method.

Even policies are marketing – since, like a lot of marketing, they bear only a tenuous relation to the truth.

However, the harshness of the punishment may be an important consideration where the asserted power to expatriate has only a slight or tenuous relation to the granted power.

The cult was also partly the result of geography, of the spread-out conditions of American literary culture, which gave American writers a very tenuous relation to their audience.