Sentence examples for preliminary tentative from inspiring English sources

There is no evidence of the preliminary tentative mark, of the initial hesitant touch of the pencil or crayon that would allow the artist to get his bearings and select the position for the first expressive line.

A preliminary tentative for integrating diagenesis effects into history matching was described by Pontiggia et al. (2010), but the approach was based upon screening, not on the iterative minimization of an objective function.

To be sure, weakness in demand shows signs of abating, but those signs are preliminary and tentative.

Still, the Fed's policy makers said that those signs of improvement were preliminary and tentative, leading many analysts to believe that the central bank left itself room to reduce rates again when it meets in January.

This work is preliminary and tentative and will help to preserve and popularize Chinese cultural heritage.

In considering these doubts, it is necessary to appreciate the complexity of these formalization problems, and the preliminary and tentative status of the research program.

For instance, a preliminary and tentative literature search in Medline (October 8, 2009) using the keywords ("prevalence ratio* [All Fields] OR "cross-sectional"[All Fields]) AND (Poisson[All Fields] OR "log-binomial"[All Fields]) AND "humans"[MeSH Terms] found 444 references of this kind.

Tacked on to the bill is an amendment that exempts "tentative, preliminary, draft, speculative, or research material" from Iowa's open records law.

The Fed said it saw hints that demand-fueled growth might be easing but called them "tentative and preliminary".

The next scheduled meeting of Federal Reserve policy makers, who last month found signs of economic slowdown "still tentative and preliminary," is Aug. 22.

Signs of moderating growth "are still tentative and preliminary, and the utilization of the pool of available workers remains at an unusually high level," the committee said in a statement released at the conclusion of a two-day meeting.