Sentence examples for tentative against from inspiring English sources

"We were too tentative against their pressure, and it created offense for them".

Instead, they often appeared tentative against a Purdue team that had a significant advantage in height.

After watching Crosby practice for the last 10 days, Bylsma said he did not believe he would be tentative against the Islanders.

Updated at 12.15pm GMT 12.11pm GMT 18th over: England 77-4 (target: 286; Root 9, Kieswetter 1) The ball is turning enough make the batsmen tentative against Jadeja.

Indeed, after that point, the Mets began to appear tentative against Strasburg, who retired 10 batters in a row from the second into the fifth innings with a fastball that topped out at 97 m.p.h.

She thinks of the many parties at Sam and Rachel's where she has stayed dumb while Kieran has spoken out eloquently on some subject; and now that same tongue of his is shyly tentative against hers, and hers is bolder.

Donovan said the Americans were tentative early against Slovenia.

Agüero's tentative performance against Paraguay, culminating in a missed penalty, spoke of how confidence has leached from the side as the possibility grows that this most gifted of generations will not end a trophy drought that stretches back to 1993.

Judge Richard Leon issued a tentative injunction against the NSA bulk collection of phone call records ("meta-data"), but it was stayed pending the decision of higher courts.

However, it is also important to acknowledge that the capabilities of such applications (and implementation thereof) in predicting the cost and performance of optimal design proposals (Petric et al. 2002) should enable design engineers to compare the quality of any one tentative solution against the quality of previous solutions.

Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLASTN) analysis against 13,297 spotted oligonucleotides was performed against tentative consensus (TC) sequences from The Institute for Genomic Research TIGRR) database [ 63] (build 12; 42 sequences) and porcine UniGene database from the NCBI database [ 64] (build 27; 544 sequences) to identify swine-specific genes, EST clusters, and annotations.