Sentence examples for was already tenuous from inspiring English sources

As Joffe told me, "The violence was possible because the relationship of medicine to abortion was already tenuous".

Ultimately, he said, Putin decided against invading eastern Ukraine due to the risks involved and because the situation of the Kiev government was already tenuous.

Especially in the inland communities where infrastructure was already tenuous, people were completely disconnected.

Their legitimacy was already tenuous, because of the way they had seized power.

But opening the files so close to election time could damage the ruling party, whose grip on power is already tenuous.

But that act (a son teaching his mother) reversed our hierarchies, and with it our identities, which, in this country, were already tenuous and tethered.

For a poet who has been marginalized by her culture, in a country that has also been marginalized, to see her work translated into English, and for the United States then to see it through translation, makes a difference in standing for that poet on her home turf -- in Vicky's case for a woman, in South America, so that standing is already tenuous.

For example, in developing regions where food security is already tenuous, increased flooding related to global warming could wipe out plant resources, stored food, and seed reserves.

It is also one less reason for Mr. Romney to compete in Pennsylvania, where his standing was already very tenuous.

Newt Gingrich was already on tenuous grounds on electability, and when he dared to critique Mr. Ryan's Medicare plan, he was shunned by the party.

Khashoggi was referring to the combined efforts, led by Turkish intelligence and supported by Qatar and Saudi Arabia, to field thousands of fighters in a jihadi coalition that resulted in the tactical withdrawal of the Syrian army from the part of Idlib on which its hold was already somewhat tenuous -- and with its lines of supply quite extended.