One impetus for the tentative statement is clearly Mr. Arafat's well-honed instinct for survival.
The court has released what it calls the "Tentative Statement of Decision".
As the opening movement, a ruminative Andante, began, the winds, playing tentative statements of the theme, had a reedy, plaintive and exotic allure.
Think of it as a social minuet or, better, the early sections of the first movement of a Baroque string quartet, containing much filigree work and tentative statements of major themes that might be developed in later movements.
It began slowly, with some tentative statements of policy in regard to the opposite sex — a girl's shaky resolve, for example, to accost an admired stranger, in "Easier Said Than Done": My friends all tell me Go to him, Run to him, Say sweet lovely things to him, My friends all tell me Sing to him, Swing with him, Just do anything for him . . .
Sciences International staff revised the report, removing tentative statements and asserting that their work to date supported reducing the interspecies uncertainty factor to 1 (effectively eliminating it), thus preserving the existing exposure standard of 0.3 ppm (Sciences International 1999b).
We're asked to accept, for instance, that Posy is simultaneously a provocatively brilliant scholar and a ditzy ingénue who betrays all the telltale linguistic tics of a Valley Girl, such as peppering her speech with the filler word "like" and turning every statement into a tentative, like, y'know, question?
The Justice Department issued a statement yesterday acknowledging generally that a tentative agreement had been reached with Columbia on certain issues.
Rather than accept that evolution science is always a tentative work in progress, conventional evolutionists make absolutist statements like "all the facts are on my side".
"I would like to thank the governing board for their guidance and stewardship which has allowed a tentative agreement to be reached," Sinnette said in the statement, adding that members of the La Cañada Teachers Assn.
