Sentence examples for tentative command from inspiring English sources

And both books underscore the author's reportorial familiarity with the daily bump and grind of politics and his more tentative command of imaginative fiction.

The court's "belated and somewhat tentative command," Justice Stevens wrote with reference to the similarly unanimous follow-up opinion known as Brown II, "may have done more to encourage resistance to the clear message contained in Earl Warren's original opinion than would have a dissenting opinion joined by only one or two justices".

Generally, Echo users seem to buy it as a toy or out of curiosity and slowly adopt it into their lives, one tentative voice command at a time.

His body is practically naked, and his movements suggest someone who is only beginning to discover the extent of his powers, tentative yet forceful and commanding.

After a tentative start, he seemed in command of the room, drawing cheer after cheer as he made the Republican case against President Obama and presented the vision of greatly reduced government that he has championed on his rise to power in the House.

Tsipras, whose command of English is tentative, depended on Varoufakis.

Depending on the trajectory, the number of objects, and other criteria, alerts, tentative warnings, or all-out warning signals are transmitted to command centres.

After a promising but tentative Broadway debut last year in A Normal Heart, the preternaturally boyish actor commands the stage in a surprisingly offhanded way.