Sentence examples for tentative indicator from inspiring English sources

The nation's retailers reported sales results for February that were as bleak as those of recent months — yet they were also slightly better than Wall Street was expecting, and a tentative indicator that economic deceleration may be slowing.

Codon usage is, however, only a tentative indicator of protein expression.

The MWAABP/MWAICP correlation has been previously introduced as a tentative indicator of the state of cerebrovascular pressure regulation [ 33, 34].

(2008), we used the same test retest correlation analysis (Pearson product-moment correlation) to calculate an r value as a tentative indicator of the reliability of pretest scores.

Very debated results were found when determining the Ka/Ks ratio, a tentative indicator of positive Darwinian selection, in the coding region of genes expressed in the mammalian brain [ 5- 7].

The MBA's seasonally adjusted purchase index, a tentative early indicator of home sales, decreased 2.5percentt, reaching its lowest since the week ended November 12. Borrowing costs on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages, excluding fees, averaged 4.85percentt, up 0.01 percentage point from the previous week.

"The first three indicators seem to be clearly growing, and the next two indicators show some tentative signs of growth," Feroli writes, but employment, which Bernanke "expressed concern over, is not expanding, though as the NBER has noted, this is not a precondition of an official recovery".

As the policy change took place in a dynamic health sector context, these conclusions can only be tentative, but most of the indicators have changed in the direction predicted by our hypotheses.

Given the lack of knowledge on what constitutes an ideal level or composition of capacity, indicators used should be regarded as tentative.

Indicators of capacity must be regarded as tentative, given lack of knowledge of what constitutes an ideal level of capacity.

The leading indicators reminded investors that the economic recovery remains slow and tentative.