Sentence examples for to be tenuous from inspiring English sources

But relief rallies are known to be tenuous.

More ominously from a German point of view, Mr. Sarkozy's own future seems to be tenuous.

The moves may be the last Duquette makes because his status under the incoming ownership appears to be tenuous.

That may be dispiriting to those who perceive their identity to be tenuous, but pretending otherwise is counterproductive.

That the composer had spent the past several years in New York City leading both the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic, and that his health was known to be tenuous, might have contributed to the favorable reception.

While Russian troops nominally control much of Chechnya, the downing today of another Russian military helicopter -- the third in 10 weeks -- showed that the control continues to be tenuous, at best.

Although ties to Yiddish may be tenuous, the tie it provides to forefathers is profound.

"I really fear what that does to their sense of hope, which can be tenuous to students anyway," Mr. Luft said.

It would appear that a link to major corporations would be tenuous, at best.

Even the local authorities have accepted that the current return of apparent peace to La Paz could be tenuous.

Jackson's links to Fulham are tenuous to say the least - he watched a game there as a guest of Al Fayed in 1999 - while the singer was also dogged by controversy during his lifetime.