Sentence examples for tenuous that from inspiring English sources

Mr. Meier, as much as anyone, is aware of how tenuous that role can be.

Our willingness to trust in efforts like health reform can be built on experience, as happened with Mark, though we must recognize how tenuous that trust remains.

And in some ways dissecting the whole and revealing its parts with such clarity lets us see just how tenuous that vitality is: the processes of life are revealed through an extravagantly processed death.

People haven't done that before.' The existence of (not to mention the critical and commercial success of) the frank new cancer comedy film "50/50" prompts the question, "How did we get here?" You can draw a line, however tenuous, that starts with Edith Bunker finding a lump on her breast and ends at Debra Winger languishing melodramatically in "Terms of Endearment".

He called a sales-tax cut "so tenuous that it is almost unbelievable".

The more tenuous that connection to the crime, the less likely".

Surely it can't get any more tenuous than that?

And because obesity is determined by lack of exercise as well as calorie intake, its ultimate relationship with health costs is more tenuous than that of, say, smoking.

The case of Fr. 20 is even more tenuous than that of Fr. 191.

"We think it's a very tenuous situation that can change, but we're ready to support people that make that decision".

It is important to note that Excavata is a tenuous grouping that may in fact be polyphyletic: thus, members of Excavata without the intron may fall on either side of a putative loss/gain event.