Sentence examples for hesitant step from inspiring English sources

This is a hesitant step down the road to English devolution.

Mr. Obama had distanced himself slowly, a hesitant step here and there, from his church.

"He turned once, took a hesitant step and as if some spring in the mechanism had broken, circled again.... " 'He frightens me,' said Hazel.

He makes his entrance, in silence, down a wrought-iron staircase (of course this joint is below street level), with a tired and hesitant step.

France's painful efforts to come to terms with the atrocities in its recent colonial history will take another hesitant step forward today with the official – or semi-official – admission that police murdered up to 200 Algerian demonstrators in Paris 40 years ago.

But the history of negotiations with North Korea is that every step forward is followed by a hesitant step back, as the North's leadership debates how much it can afford to expose its people to influences from South Korea and the West.

These are hesitant steps, certainly.

"Miss?" Lorvane took a few small, hesitant steps toward Danielle.

At any rate, late in 1859 he announced the first hesitant steps toward a liberal empire.

We took only hesitant steps, when the situation called for boldness.

On these pages today Cameron does offer more pledges and hesitant steps towards greater transparency.