Sentence examples for take hesitant from inspiring English sources

The past three summit meetings have seen the leaders of this "Economic Five" take hesitant, small steps in the direction of giving some teeth to an organisation that could guide and direct the economic power shift from West to East.

A growing number of the smaller countries are taking hesitant steps towards political liberalisation: freer elections, granting women the vote, releasing political prisoners, allowing more freedom for the press.Nobody is breaking out the champagne yet.

At a moment that seems to command existential choice, the candidates are responding piecemeal and with calculation in a manner the French call "petit bras" — taking hesitant, little strokes where a full swing is needed.

Christian, a straw-haired dimwit whom we first meet fast asleep, cuddling his teddy bear, takes hesitant instruction from Justice and Mercy, resists the temptations of Worldliness and finally delivers his vacillating soul over to a bumbling but good-hearted monk named Christianity.

In America, I finally had a chance to investigate my own sexuality and take small hesitant steps in that direction.

Once the banking panic had ended, the economy, like a patient recovering from a coronary arrest, began to take some hesitant steps forward.

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.

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

But it is expensive, and it takes only hesitant steps in the crucial direction of cost control.

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

Nurse Ames takes a hesitant step forward.