Sentence examples for tenuous standing from inspiring English sources

But the struggle has underscored Mr. Prodi's tenuous standing in Parliament.

But Mr. Ward was unaware, until very recently, that the change had even occurred, which speaks to dry vermouth's tenuous standing in the stateside drinking world.

Perrilloux's own family is reluctant to speak publicly, fearing that his tenuous standing with Miles, and his undetermined legal status, may be undermined.

But his relatively narrow margins in some contests — including last week against Mike Huckabee in Virginia — have rattled party leaders by accentuating his tenuous standing among conservatives.

ROYALS 5, BLUE JAYS 0 James Shields (10-8) allowed three hits in seven innings for Kansas City, which avoided a three-game sweep in Toronto and bolstered its tenuous standing in the wild-card race.

Several coaching candidates sized up Smith's tenuous standing in Chicago and declined the invitation to join his staff, including one of his former coaches, Perry Fewell, whom many considered Smith's friend.

Around 2 30 a.m., while custodians swept up cups and tossed out popcorn buckets, Boeheim strode back into the arena, presumably to address the Orange's once tenuous N.C.A.A. tournament standing.

With their division standing tenuous as a result of a three-game losing streak, the Giants cannot afford to pay too much attention to what the outcome means for anyone but themselves.

But Jones seems more constrained than many other former Hurricanes and has a complete understanding of how tenuous his standing could become.

The result has been a tenuous standoff that sees Ms Banerjee standing with the GJM's leaders on one side, ranged against a younger generation of separatists on the other.

By Hendrik Hertzberg For the better part of two thousand years, the standing Buddhas of Bamiyan kept watch over the midpoint of what was once the Silk Road, the tenuous filigree connecting Greece, Rome, and Persia in the west with India, China, and Mongolia in the east.