Voorbeelden van tenuous

• If the rights of property could not be enforced even in the countryside, respect for property located in towns could well have been more tenuous.

• Although this more closely reflects daily family life, it also makes comparative statements somewhat tenuous.

• Under an optimality-theoretic account of grammar, such 'deviation' hypotheses are untenable, and the evidence supporting them tenuous.

• Bilinguals have sometimes been described as 'marginal people', because the link with each of their two communities is thought to be tenuous.

• Even adult speech that adheres to adult standards may furnish no clues or only tenuous ones.

• Individual chapters are relatively short, and would have benefited from elaboration, and the links between them are rather tenuous.

• Submission sometimes led to incorporation, but often to a tenuous relation between reluctant subjects and distrusted overlords.

• Consider the view that the link between aggregate consumption and current measured income is a tenuous one.