He never again allowed personal rancor to divert attention from the nation's tenuous claim to independence.

Justice Scalia said the fact that immigrants who had never been formally admitted into the country might have a more tenuous constitutional claim did not change the analysis.

I do agree, however, that as opposed to laminectomy for sciatica, instrumentation and fusion have a very tenuous claim to effectiveness.

(Also re: reputable group, worth pointing out that the same lab made tenuous claims about finding dark matter several years ago)

This seems to be a rather tenuous claim.

Earlier this year, he bought a 15th-century chateau in a small French village named Estaing, helping to solidify his family's tenuous claim to nobility.

In Iraq it was a tenuous claim that Saddam possessed a nuclear capability and was preparing to use missiles against western targets.

"From this tenuous claim you can actually hold up a project for 10 months and cost the Royal Court $40,000 in legal fees, which it doesn't have."

In that moment, he had lost all sense of time and place, and any tenuous claim he'd still held to being civilized.

Their tenuous claim to their former home came through Elizabeth's maxiage to Orfin.