Liss's initial caution is perfectly understandable.
The group stage encourages initial caution, since the top two from each of the six sections will qualify, together with the four best third-placed nations.
This initial caution is understandable as Tian Tian failed to mate with her male partner Yang Guang in 2012, before later suffering a miscarriage in October last year.
After Reagan came the first president Bush, whose initial caution about Gorbachev gave way to such enthusiasm that he unilaterally scrapped America's vast arsenal of land- and sea-based tactical nuclear weapons.
But effective single-issue politicians do not always make the most comfortable team players, and there was some initial caution inside Labour, according to insiders, about whether Creasy might be too wedded to her own campaigns to dedicate herself to a ministerial brief.
On his journey from initial caution about Mandela to open admiration, the writer reminds us of the uncertainty that surrounded the prisoner's release in February 1990, when it was feared that he might be too old and out of touch to fulfil the hopes vested in him.
The knock-on effect of this initial caution though is that many insurers will then adjust their rates quickly in the days and weeks after 21 December, which has been dubbed by some in the industry as G-day.
Sometimes all it takes is the establishment of bona fides to get past initial caution.
Lieberman, who appeared on CNN with McCain, said that while he understood the administration's initial caution, "now is the time for action, not just statements".
Police reported a few violent incidents and more than a score of arrests of curfew violators, while the mayor, claiming initial success, cautioned that a long weekend lay ahead.
