Sentence examples for tentative means from inspiring English sources

"I have used induced coma a lot," said Dr. Teresa L. Smith, director of neurointensive care at the University of Michigan Health System, "and I look at it as a tentative means to minimize brain activity and help the brain heal".

All these tentative means of efficiency should meet project and operational goals, including throughput constraints.

A correction to bring these into line with experiment is proposed as a tentative means of applying the present findings in an analytical framework.

The tentative $30 million deal means he should be on the mound, throwing his devastating cutter, for at least two more seasons.

Even President Jacques Chirac and Alain Juppé, his Gaullist prime minister, are finally edging their way up from their previous abysmal depths in the opinion polls.Not that a few tentative green shoots mean that everything is suddenly coming up roses.

The economic improvements agreed to in the tentative pact would mean $41 million more to the union's writers over the three years of the deal, Mr. Mahern said, including improvements in residuals for foreign sales, basic cable, pay cable and videocassettes.

Much like the strategy pursued by Deng Xiaoping in the transformation of Red China into an economic colossus, the Castro brothers and their flunkies have begun tentative economic reforms meant to unleash the natural entrepreneurial energy of the Cuban people, squashed but not extinguished by years of the ruthless application of orthodox Marxist-Leninist policies at the hands of Fidel.

Given the actual transcript isoforms are unknown for each gene (tiling array does not offer individual sequence information), this classification is essentially tentative and by no means should be used to replace further experimental exploration.

Mogadishu residents interviewed on Saturday were happy the Shabab was gone but tentative about what it meant.

A tentative estimate of their mean age gives numbers ranging from 8 Myrs (if only human ERVK are considered) up to 18 Myrs (if human and chimp ERVK are considered) [ 28, 29].

As a rapper, he's serviceable and deliberate, which means he's tentative.