Sentence examples for tenuous stability from inspiring English sources

Whatever tenuous stability Minnie had felt at home crumbled as that initial touch turned into an affair.

Opponents of the president said his tougher tone could upset the tenuous stability in cross-strait relations that he has achieved.

It reignited long-simmering tensions years after a decade of intermittent war in Chechnya, a southern Russian republic, was replaced by tenuous stability.

He abandoned the house he had designed and built in upstate New York, and wandered in Alaska, Texas, and Newfoundland before finding a tenuous stability in Naples.

And the recent national intelligence estimate, a consensus of America's spies, gives three prognoses: bad (tenuous stability), worse and worst (civil war).

The assessments in the intelligence estimate outlined three possibilities for Iraq through the end of 2005, ranging from a worst case of civil war to a best case of tenuous stability.

Zimbabwe had achieved a tenuous political stability in the two years since regional leaders first pressured Mr. Mugabe to enter a power-sharing government with his longtime rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, after a discredited, violent 2008 election.

Since Mr Mahuad fixed the sucre at 25,000 to the dollar in January, Ecuador's devastated economy has achieved a tenuous and temporary stability.

To Obama, by contrast, the Iraq war is exactly what it appears to be: a catastrophic error that is by no means redeemed by recent tenuous gains in stability.

For now, the government owes its tenuous grip on stability to Gen. Rashid Ammar, who is believed to have prompted the end of Mr. Ben Ali's rule by refusing an order to fire at demonstrators.

Compound the school-level variables for Washington's program with the direction of higher education in the state, and one appreciates how tenuous the educational stability and success of students like Ibardalazo is.