Sentence examples for tenuous understanding from inspiring English sources

I hope Lebedev raises questions about the Russian government's tenuous understanding of press freedom when he gives the opening lecture next Sunday at the Society of Editors' conference in Glasgow.

For example, Douglas Murray and Denis MacShane have the most tenuous understanding of antisemitism and a disturbing propensity to demonise Muslims, and yet, certain Jewish student and community leaders seem to feel that it's helpful to promote and utilise such ill-informed commentators.

The only acceptable error rate should be zero [21], but given the complexity of the process and the rather tenuous understanding of the processes influencing perception, there is a feeling that "the search for zero error is doomed from the start" [30].

From a human perspective the Earth may be considered as a single interconnected ecosystem, and given our tenuous understanding and control over the environment as well as our own behaviors, ever-looming specters of social collapse or even extinction dictate enacting immediate off-world diversification and self-preservation efforts.

But Lorelai and, especially, Rory revealed some interesting character developments that cry out for further exploration: a laissez-faire attitude toward both underwear and fidelity; a tenuous understanding of the journalism profession, the interview process and trail hiking; and, of course, the unremitting certainty that life inside and outside Stars Hollow is all about the Mademoiselles Gilmore.

His enthusiasm for divisive and hateful rhetoric, tenuous understanding of key principles of American democracy such as, for example, the First Amendment, and deep-seeded megalomania are all reason that a Trump presidency would threaten our democracy and what is left of our national cohesion.

Becoming an adult is realizing alone-ness, understanding how tenuous the integration of lives really is, and facing the unpleasant necessity of having to earn affection.

America's original sin is too important, and our collective understanding too tenuous and sophomoric, for someone to make outlandish charges.

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

But that may be because with each patient story, she has brought us closer to understanding how flimsy is the veil separating us from them, how tenuous is the illusion that we are invulnerable and cannot be touched by a catastrophic accident, diagnosis or death.

The explanations for Alzheimer's disease and depression were more tenuous, since we still have little understanding of the basic causes underlying these conditions.