Sentence examples for a small and tentative from inspiring English sources

The signs of a small and tentative rebound are discernible.

The balloting today, the first since he overthrew Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in October 1999, was a small and tentative step toward fulfilling that pledge.

But while nationally open data initiatives are taking small and tentative steps, in Berlin the story is a little different.

Any success will necessarily be small and tentative.

And these mini-protests all have in common that they are small and tentative and highly unlikely to threaten seriously the military government of Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi.

Small and tentative and ordinary as the gestures may have been, they were unmistakable celebrations of what looked like the end of three weeks of terror.

She appeared small and tentative as she watched other women parade past, bedecked and bejeweled, as if they were characters in her books.

In these cases, actions should be small and tentative in order to minimise the risk of instability.

Working for a Swedish housewares company, Schultz made a business call in 1981 on a tiny coffee-bean store in Pike Place Market in Seattle, was handed a mug with freshly brewed coffee and, as he explains in his book "took a small, tentative sip.... My eyes shot wide open...

Each time, a small clamour of tentative optimism is pricked by the predictable conservatism of the findings and recommendations issued.

In 535, as in 533, a small tentative expedition sent to the West in that instance, to Sicily met with easy success.