Sentence examples for tentative expansion from inspiring English sources

And yet there are any number of complications in the contemporary brief against China: the tension between the central government and despotic local officials, the tentative expansion of property rights, newly cordial relations with Taiwan, an increased emphasis by the leadership on abating environmental damage.

But even as the report eased worries that the economy might tip back into decline, it did little to dislodge the widespread notion that the recession had given way to a tepid and tentative expansion, one unlikely to significantly cut the ranks of the jobless.

In the U.K., Cleo now claims more than 150,000 users, while I understand, following the startup's stealthy, although tentative, U.S. expansion it is on track for 200,000 users globally.

Under this still-tentative plan, the expansion would add 200,000 square feet of exhibition space and 100,000 square feet of meeting room space, as well as a ballroom.

Although the evidence is tentative and anecdotal, any expansion of the protests' base would be a significant setback for the new government.

The level of fixation was greater between reef samples with more recent population expansions compared to the level of fixation among reef samples with older population expansions providing tentative support for the meta-population propagule-pool model of re-colonisation (Table 3).

A1 NATIONAL A20-31 Tentative Deal Reached On Medicare Expansion House and Senate negotiators agreed on the structure of prescription drug benefits to be offered to 40 million elderly and disabled people, making it the biggest expansion of Medicare to date.

In order to ensure that today's tentative recovery becomes a lasting expansion, the government must now make it a priority to deal with employment — particularly among small businesses.

Thermal expansion effects could explain a tentative mechanism for rolling action of sheets.

The economy grew in the second quarter at the slowest pace since 1993 and consumer sentiment plunged this month after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, threatening to stifle the tentative growth left in the economy's record expansion.

Export-oriented developing nations in Latin America, Asia and the Middle East have depended heavily on robust expansion in the United States to power their own tentative recoveries from a recession in the late 1990's.