1. The sub-plots are only tenuously interconnected.

2. But the cease-fire was hanging on last summer, tenuously.

3. She stroked his hair tenuously, as if afraid of being told not to.

4. But they're held together tenuously, only by our constant activity,[/tenuously.html] busy bees maintaining the cells of our hive.

5. His works tenuously survive in the minds of a few scholars.

6. Eg. These objectives should not extend tenuously to preserving cultural traditions.

7. Both his sense of need and his surrogate conscience link him however tenuously, with a social universe.

8. He kept in contact with her, if only very tenuously and intermittently.

9. The last book ends in 1972, with the death of J. Edgar Hoover.Also like its predecessors, "Blood's a Rover" features three protagonists tenuously connected to law enforcement.

10. After all, Somaliland in the north has already broken away and Puntland, in the north-east, is tenuously connected to the rump of Somalia.

11. Wandering Iranian towns in 1978, I remember riot squads in the streets and the Shah's portrait seeming to hang tenuously in market stalls.

12. More often the activities that go under the sustainability banner are a hotch-potch of pet projects at best tenuously related to the core business.