Sentence examples for tenuous supply from inspiring English sources

"We had a couple of tenuous supply lines across Pakistan that are costing us a heck of a lot, and they're very dangerous," said Gen. James T. Conway, the commandant of the Marine Corps.

America's arch enemy, Muammar Gaddafi, had thousands of troops camped in the remote desert of northern Chad, a forward front in his pan-African expansionist plan, but a thousand miles from Tripoli on tenuous supply lines and thus highly vulnerable.

At least 13 have introduced measured designed to keep the source of their lethal injection drugs secret, in a bid to keep tenuous supply lines open in the face of a biting European-led boycott of drug sales to US departments of correction.

It's a long and tenuous supply chain, which makes it leaky and vulnerable.

It was worn out, at the end of a long and tenuous supply line (Model had been promoted on 28 October, and needed two weeks just to get to Kalinin), and the cold weather was starting to hamper the Germans.

Bragg held an ineffective siege against Chattanooga, but refused to take any further action as the Union forces there were reinforced by Ulysses S. Grant and reopened a tenuous supply line.

The French were unable to slow the Viet Minh advance, and the Viet Minh fell back only after outrunning their always-tenuous supply lines.

The great advantage of the method is that it facilitates the union of fractures and intercarpal ligaments because it can lessen capsular and adjacent soft tissue injury and provide preservation of an already tenuous blood supply.

The principal complication of internal fixation is non-union which is related to the tenuous blood supply to the femoral head.

Bone marrow-derived stem cells originate within an entirely different niche to cells that have adapted to survive within the NP with its tenuous nutrient supply and hypoxic environment.

"It's really important to get people aware of just how tenuous our food supply really is".