Sentence examples for tentative reply from inspiring English sources
In the pool report, a TV reporter included the number of seconds that passed between the question and Mr. McCain's first tentative reply.
Struggling to respond to President Clinton's request for immediate advice on the hybrid cow-human cell announced earlier this month, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission has delivered a guarded and somewhat tentative reply, based on the few facts available to it.
Buchanan, A, Still unconvinced, but still tentative: a reply to DeGrazia., Journal of Medical Ethics, vol. 38 no. 3 (March , 2012, pp. 140-141 [abs] [abs].
The tentative (experimental) replies for the 52 trials are presented in Table 3 which shows substantial deviation in laccase yield.
At a recent meeting with employees CEO Parker was queried on the lack of a profit sharing clause in the "Tentative Agreement". He tersely replied: "It's just not the right way to pay 100,000 employees that don't have that much impact on the daily profits". After deserved criticism, Mr. Parker has issued a lame clarification to disentangle from what are his true feelings.
We want to change the way you are run, replies the Department of Transportation DOTT), which gave tentative blessing to the new airline on March 20th in return for a host of changes to its ownership and management structures.
Not sure whether she speaks Spanish or Creole (and knowing neither ourselves) we try a tentative: "Water, please?" She shakes her head and replies in lugubrious Caribbean vowels.
A first tentative attempt to draw her into a conversation was met with a sigh and an exasperated reply.
After finishing the novel, Spufford made a "tentative" approach to ask the Lewis estate if they might agree to publication, but did not receive a reply.
