Sentence examples for made a hesitant from inspiring English sources

For much of 1999, this western encouragement seemed to bear fruit, as Mr Yushchenko's government made a hesitant start on long-overdue reforms.

He was seen as a potential long-term successor to Ian Ure, who was soon to join Manchester United, but Roberts was raw, and made a hesitant Highbury beginning.

In 2004, as captain of the Rex krewe — one of the more progressive Mardi Gras organizations — Billy made a hesitant approach, too little and too late, trying to get to know Tootie Montana.

For much of 1999, this western encouragement seemed to bear fruit, as Mr Yushchenko's government made a hesitant start on long-overdue reforms.But things started falling apart in September, when Georgi Gongadze, a journalist who lampooned Mr Kuchma and his chums, disappeared.

It is six years since Dave Brailsford's Team Sky made a hesitant debut at the 2010 Tour de France, but since then they have become the Tour squad par excellence, taking three yellow jerseys in four years with a fourth on the way.

Facebook-owned WhatsApp made a hesitant and half-hearted debut on the BlackBerry platform three years ago, and announced at the tail-end of last month that it was rescinding that decision.

This presumably refers to the period after the 1975 Newport Jazz Festival, when Davis – a heroin addict during the early 50s – retired from the public eye and spiralled back into drug addiction, before making a hesitant return to recording and performing.

Dundee, with Temur Ketsbaia making a hesitant debut, won 2-1 against Hibernian in Edinburgh, where the substitute Steven Milne scored the injury-time winner, and Motherwell won a point for their new management team of Eric Black and Terry Butcher with a draw at Dundee United.

"Both times he double-clutched and made a soft, hesitant throw.

For the past couple of years, Yellen, a sixty-nine-year old former Yale professor, had largely been following the script written by her predecessor at the Fed, Ben Bernanke, who put in place the extraordinary monetary stimulus policies that have been in place since 2008, and who, before retiring, in January, 2014, made only a hesitant start toward winding them down.

So it should come as no surprise that he makes a rather hesitant mentor to Peter Parker, especially as Stark isn't really the avuncular type.