Sentence examples for tenuous steps from inspiring English sources

Suárez then won office in Spain's first free vote since 1936, and helped direct the country's tenuous steps toward democracy for the next four years, earning him widespread praise as the architect of Spain's vaunted transition from dictatorship.

Fittingly, it all feels a bit like watching a baby takes its first tenuous steps.

first tenuous steps out into an unsteady world.

With the help of our Democratic leaders, the country is taking its first tenuous steps toward building a more transparent, truthful, equal, efficient and cheaper credit system, where the fee-happy mortgage chicanery that caused our current economic malaise is unambiguously illegal.

T.J. Mancini admitted that he never had the courage to do anything more than take a tenuous step off the board, the way a toy soldier might.

The rocket attack occurred hours after Mr. Olmert met President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheik to discuss the next steps in the tenuous Egyptian-mediated truce and the renewal of efforts to resolve the case of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli corporal held by Hamas in Gaza since June 25 , 2006

Yet there are also signs of deep ambivalence toward steps that would erase the tenuous Arab-Israeli thaw of the last decade and push relations back to the days of total nonrecognition.

This is an indication that the (Z tp, R MLGP) coupling assumed by Eq. 3 at the given pressure depletion step from CVD data becomes more tenuous as condensate mobility increases.

QUESTION FROM SHAWN ALLADIO: Jon Lee, you observe and write about situations that require a person to step outside of normal daily behavior in tenuous situations oftentimes as a survival response.

"The connection between the invasion of Iraq and the faltering steps towards democracy in parts of the region is tenuous at best".

"I believe that dialogue and engagement is always a step in the right direction, especially given the tenuous relationship these two leaders have had.