Sentence examples for instead of tentative from inspiring English sources

Since Republicans are going to get hammered for even considering changing the current on-its-way-to-going-broke system, they might as well be bold instead of tentative.

Instead of being tentative, they were determined.

Argentina has long wanted a permanent tribunal, instead of the current, tentative, arrangement of assembling an ad hoc panel for each case.

What could easily have been a diplomatic rumpus instead became a token of tentative co-operation.

Instead of blanket immunity, the tentative proposal would give the federal courts special authorization to hear classified evidence and decide whether the phone companies should be held liable.

The diagnoses for analysis came from the administrative claims and might be tentative instead of final.

Possibly the biggest addition to the mix is a feature called negative filtering, which allows users to screen their searches based on what they don't want to see instead of having to choose a tentative handful of options.

Instead he introduces "posits" that can basically be understood as leaps of (tentative) faith that the empirical distribution is representative.

Consumers may see more discounts for using cash instead of a credit card under a tentative deal announced Monday by the Justice Department and the credit card companies Visa and MasterCard.

In any case Google seems to have had a moment of moral clarity and instead of continuing with the ambiguous and tentative justifications has decided to pull the plug.

Instead, she was drawn to Mr. McNally's play, which staggers toward a note of tentative conciliation.