The league has a somewhat tenuous existence. Eager to strengthen his increasingly tenuous grip on the underworld, the crimelord accepts. Modern scholarship generally dismisses a connection between Sigurd and Arminius as tenuous speculation. Given the tenuous supply situation, this was a significant break. A tenuous atmosphere exists around Mercury. London quickly establishes a tenuous friendship with Bailey. Lacey Wallace describes the derivation as "somewhat tenuous". Berthold was in a tenuous and stressful situation. And so a tenuous alliance is formed. Outgassing is a possible source of many tenuous atmospheres of terrestrial planets or moons. This is a tenuous argument at best. Extended family bonds become more tenuous. The main insurgent faction is Ansar al-Sunna, a native extremist faction with tenuous international connections. Frequent civil wars made central authority tenuous at best. Callisto has a very tenuous atmosphere composed of carbon dioxide.