Beazley's hold on Swan grew increasingly tenuous over the years.
It is really about the increasingly tenuous connection that urban and suburban dwellers have with wild nature.
That support has become increasingly tenuous in recent days.
This was the first in a run of increasingly tenuous attempts by different producers to capitalize on the Zombi name.
This physical symptom was matched by mental turmoil, as well, and my grip on reality seemed increasingly tenuous.
Then he was sinking through increasingly tenuous foam, losing support yet not really falling.
That is a position which is now a little uncertain and is going to become increasingly tenuous over the next few years.
He didn't add that this was becoming increasingly tenuous.
What they have in common, along with an increasingly tenuous Old World heritage, is years of experience.
To Grace's leaders, though, that success seemed increasingly tenuous.