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Synonyms for tenuous

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Synonyms for tenuous

having little substance or significance; not solidly based

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Synonyms for tenuous

having thin consistency

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very thin in gauge or diameter

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lacking substance or significance

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One thing is awareness of the tenuousness of its existence.
Marlowe's two Tamburlaine plays illustrate the uncertainty and tenuousness about where Caesarean power now resided.
McCullough's 1776 shows the tenuousness of the situation in the first full year of the American Revolution.
Arguing for the rehearing, Judge Sotomayor cited a number of factors intended to show the increasing tenuousness of the majority's approach: the strong negative reaction to the cases by the United Kingdom; the State Department's advocacy of a contrary rule to avoid international controversy for failure to provide a neutral federal judicial forum for the affected foreign persons; the fact that the Second Circuit was alone in its rulings; the existence of an earlier Second Circuit case that had assumed alienage jurisdiction where a Bermuda corporation was involved; and reservations about Matimak expressed in a footnote later added to Koehler by two of the judges who ruled in the case.
Curry shows, subliminally reflects the tenuousness of that privilege, so that Caulfield' s breakdown portends the social destabilization, decades later, of the transparency with which whiteness expresses and exercises privilege.
Aside from the tenuousness of success, each procedure is potentially time-consuming and expensive--all anathema to the foreclosure process.
The bipolar depressive at the center of the musical's damaged family is Diana (Alice Ripley), a cute-looking, average morn of about 40, just a little too unnaturally up to disguise the tenuousness of her stability.
For whatever tenuousness of coherence outsiders may find in Mormonism's origins and suppositions, the culture's capacity to render hearty results--Mormon Utah as a leading success story of American capitalism comes to mind--is ineluctable.
Mazigh's sense of betrayal and disappointment is painfully clear and must be contextualised within a larger discussion of the historical tenuousness of multicultural Canada for racialized minorities.
Given the potential tenuousness of the expectational forces keeping the economy in the good steady state, even under an active monetary policy rule, one might reasonably ask, What would happen if, instead of forming their expectations based on how they believe the government would behave out of equilibrium, private agents formed their expectations based on how they actually observe the government to behave in equilibrium?
Again, we are confronted with exaggeration and tenuousness of facts rather than outright falsehood.
Conversations with the two administrators of these projects also indicate their feelings of the tenuousness, or conditionality, of the learning dynamic.