Sentence examples for a tentative understanding from inspiring English sources

Mr. Johnson, a contributing science writer for The New York Times, says he wrote the book not to profile the personalities in the field, but to lead the reader toward a tentative understanding of quantum computing.

Paul Newman's Really Jewish! - accompanied by a tentative understanding that somewhere in the coiled scrolls of the Torah was a mandate that stipulated, on days of particular solemnity, the suspension of alternate-side-of-the-street parking.

The chance to break with the status quo didn't come until the early nineteen-nineties, when a semi-official group of Israelis, on the initiative of Norway's deputy foreign minister, reached a tentative understanding with P.L.O.

They have come to a tentative understanding, though Ms. Belyayeva testified in court that "according to Shariah law, we Russians are unbelievers, and women, according to Shariah law, are a lower race of Muslims, who are raised to become married, bear children and teach them bake bread".

NBA commissioner David Stern says a "tentative understanding" has been reached to end the five-month lockout. .

The new agreement, which could see a triple-header of fixtures on Christmas Day with a shorter season of 66 games, is yet to be ratified but Stern added: "We've reached a tentative understanding that is subject to a variety of approvals and very complex machinations, but we're optimistic that will all come to pass.

A tentative reason to endorse the possibility that understanding the nature of science prevents the rejection of evolution rather than directly leading to its acceptance comes from cross-cultural work.

Earl Bierman, the state chair for the Cruz campaign, told the Guardian on Thursday night: "There had been a tentative agreement for a unity slate but that was with the understanding that Cruz's campaign is grassroots".

The image is, in fact, a drawing of Chast's prematurely born sister who lived only for a day — and Chast's gift for comedic pacing, applied to her tentative understanding of a tragedy, brings out a much bleaker, bitingly self-aware kind of comedy.

Besides these two models, she also formulated a third, much more tentative, understanding of the faculty's operation.

Jordanian government minister Nayef al-Fayez said: "It is our tentative understanding that there will be an appeal from the British Government and accordingly we will be co-ordinating closely with them to see what are the next steps to be taken".