Meanings of how tenuous in inglês

Jook sat silently, recognizing how tenuous his grasp on power was becoming.

I felt how tenuous the boundary is between life and its opposite.

More than ever I was aware how tenuous my situation was.

A connection with the King, no matter how tenuous, was best of all.

He had an innate understanding of how tenuous life can be.

That hesitation told Bud, without words, how tenuous was his hold upon Eddie.

Now Rubra had shown them how tenuous that claim was.

I was the first person outside the families with a connection, no matter how tenuous.

Recent events have reminded us of just how tenuous the political arrangements at Stormont still are.

She doesn't know how tenuous it all is.

But this massive outage -however brief -shows how tenuous our "digital lives" can be.

The recent storms, including over the weekend, showed how tenuous the country's road freight links were, Mr Leggett said.

Johann had finished his degree in systems engineering without being aware how tenuous his parents' financial position had become.

They calculated trilogies for the sake of calculating trilogies and elevated every three-in-one relationship, no matter how tenuous, into something sacred.

I believe this highlights how tenuous freedom and basic human rights can be when faced with paranoid mob mentality, xenophobia and greed.

It's normally taken to mean that they had an uncanny kind of luck, that they gripped every chance they had, no matter how tenuous.