Sentence examples similar to was tenuous to from inspiring English sources

These things are tenuous to say the least".

"The Madness of King George" (1994) was terrific, but its connection to American events is tenuous to the point of nonexistence.

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.

But the dissection of individual justification put forward for the ban are tenuous, to say the least, so that the modern doctrine will allow Kagan and Kennedy to invalidate the ban without having to break new ground for the first time.

First, and in contrast to chloroplasts and mitochondria, the nuclear compartment is in no way homologous to a prokaryotic cell, hence the whole (100 year old) notion that the nucleus was ever an endosymbiont is tenuous to begin with [ 120].

But that valuation was tenuous at best.

I hate to break it to you but you need to get a much more solid grip on reality because the one that you have appears to be tenuous at best.

I still find the proposed specific link between the microbiome and religious behaviors to be tenuous at best.

Mr. Artschwager's actual link to the young artists involved — Peter Halley, Jeff Koons and Haim Steinback among then — was tenuous, amounting to little more than a shared use of certain materials (plastic, rubber) and a sardonic take on middle-class culture.

In the beginning of the project, communication between decision makers, engineers and the public was tenuous due to excess engineering details and a lack of integrated presentations during the public hearings.

My relationship with my Mom was tenuous -- to put it lightly -- until seven years ago.