Prime Minister Chang attempted to hold the tenuous coalition together by reshuffling cabinet positions three times within five months.

Mr. Mahuad was able to obtain the agreement by stitching together a tenuous coalition in the Ecuadorean Congress.

Together, this tenuous, undefined coalition of men worked together to restore the long latent prestige, persuasive power, and active strengths of a re-invigorated Imperial center.

The tenuous coalition had been formed after a parliamentary election in 1992 that was boycotted by the Khmer Rouge.

The two bills have come as far as they have because liberals and conservatives in Congress have compromised, entering into tenuous coalitions.

Sulu was counting on the other ships listening in--and the pilot being concerned about her standing in the tenuous coalition.

Like his predecessors, Mr. Chavalit headed a tenuous multiparty coalition whose competing political and financial ambitions made creative leadership nearly impossible.

His tenuous coalition also lacked a coherent program, being committed to a broad vision of modernization, but little more specific.

In the end, a tenuous 18-to-2 coalition was put together in the Banking Committee to support the compromise bill on the floor of the Senate.

They could not agree on the composition of the cabinet and Chang attempted to hold the tenuous coalition together by reshuffling cabinet positions three times within five months.