Sections of the ledge were so tenuously held in place that her precipience felt them shift under her weight.

Such glib, brand-name stories, which have flourished for the last decade, do little more than describe the malaise of a world tenuously held together by television signals.

Phone numbers, names of new people and even tennis scores are tenuously held at best.

A gallant, painful novel that concerns three "AIDS widowers" trying to reconstruct lives tenuously held in the wake of their lovers' deaths.

Lawmakers passed an amnesty for ethnic Albanian guerrillas, a move both sides hailed as a vital step to solidify a peace that has held tenuously since last summer.

Homosexuality, in Proust's rendering of it, reveals the latent psychosis of all identity, only tenuously held in check.

Directed by Martin Davidson from a screenplay he wrote with Jeffrey Goldenberg and Robert Held, "Looking for an Echo" is a rickety agglomeration of story cliches tenuously held together by some heartfelt performances.

A military endeavor to take back territory that is tenuously held by an initial invader during the course of war is instead generally called a counter-offensive.

Chiro is a Flemish youth organisation, founded on Christian values, now only tenuously held, with 94,311 members.

His tenuously held sanity is challenged when he discovers the proof he seeks-and that not only do remains of the Yithians' past civilization still exist on earth, but also still remaining are those who destroyed them.