Sentence examples for tenuous victory from inspiring English sources

Barry Bearak (NYT) SRI LANKA: A TENUOUS VICTORY The ruling coalition won the largest number of seats in parliamentary elections and will seek to form a government in the coming days.

And even the battle for quality of life can yield tenuous victories.

Children of the Crocodile documents two young women's attempt to assimilate their nation's traumatic history of colonization and genocide and their struggles to negotiate loyalties to family and nation in the face of continuing loss and tenuous victories.

A manufactured one, built on tenuous victories, many in caucuses in small normally Republican voting states.

In the first match of the finals, Cruz Azul rode goalie Jesús Corona's heroics and Christian Giménez's goal for a tenuous 1-0 victory.

Temple (4-3) atoempted to smother Duke center Carlos Boozer, who was the most valuable player of the Preseason National Invitation Tournament and a prominent factor in Duke's tenuous 63-61 vinthey in the championship game on Nov. 24.

The Saxons attempted to secure their tenuous military victories in the region between the Elbe and Oder rivers by building and garrisoning forts.

Compared to Mr. Obama Mr. Huckabee's situation is much more tenuous, and his victory on Thursday did little to clarify the state of the Republican field.

John Brabender, a Republican strategist who has worked extensively in Pennsylvania and the Midwest, said Mr. Trump had a real but tenuous path to victory, involving a smaller map of swing states than typical for a presidential nominee.

Mr. Harper, a Conservative, won a narrow victory and tenuous control of the House of Commons last month by promising that he would make Ottawa more accountable and that he would clean up after several Liberal Party scandals.

And so, his 2006 victory already feels tenuous to him.