Large sums are offered, and tentative choices made.
Brown had been Jed's tentative second choice and a blood-oath No. 1 for his twin brother, Micah.
Amid the violence, aides to the top Shiite and Sunni lawmakers said they had reached a tentative deal on the choice of a defense minister, possibly ending a logjam.
Partners with their first case of sex-induced verbal diarrhoea are often so tentative with their word choice ("Your... uh... your... that is so... wet/big"), the only thing they end up eliciting is laughter.
His tentative steps toward that choice began when his wife was pregnant and they realized they would have to spend Mr. Zorek's entire after-tax income on a nanny's salary, effectively living on his wife's income as a corporate lawyer.
But a tentative and ambiguous pro-choice trend in public opinion after a long period of pro-life gains does not mean that liberals have won the abortion wars, especially given that the main policy shift of the Obama era has been an uptick in state-level abortion restriction.
No, this can't happen because the visionaries will do whatever it takes to support the tentatives to make the right choice, And the souls of the tentatives are too wise to sit this one out.
The bruised, tentative folk-rock of this choice No Code nugget finds its narrator concerned about a troubled friend, who seems "like he's riding on a motorbike in the strongest winds … like his thoughts are too big for his size".
Being aware of the huge cultural and ideological difference confronted in translating a traditional Eastern religious text into English, the Chinese translators are more cautious and tentative, which influences their linguistic choices and reconstruction of Huineng's image.
Or Kay's musings on just about anything, but as a choice example, the "slow, tentative, fragile return of women's lost sense of sexual honour".
