Amid the sentiment, a tentative deal was reached with the Phillips family in mid-October for an undisclosed price that Ms. Colby characterized as "reasonable".
Numis issued a sell note, saying: Whilst there are some tentative signs that investor sentiment and flows have improved in the asset management industry generally (especially in Europe), Man does not seem to be benefiting from this.
The negotiators flit from one emotional issue to another, sizing up sentiment, probing for agreement, making tentative decisions.
The big story of 1996, then, may be the tentative resurrection of moderate Republicanism--as a sentiment and a strategy, if not yet as an organization.
Malaria is the modern traveler's bogeyman, the creature lurking outside your room, waiting for you to fall asleep, intent on "getting you!" There are very few fears I hear more from tentative travelers than: "but what about malaria?" This sentiment is both responsible, and horribly misguided.
Short-term support has materialized at the 15-level, but, as the stock's sentiment backdrop reveals, this ballast could be tentative at best.
Moreover, the economy remains fragile: the Bank of Japan's latest quarterly "tankan" survey of business sentiment, released on October 1st, suggested that the tentative economic recovery is losing momentum, and that company executives remain intent on cutting capital spending.
I am referring to the indicators of economic sentiment and of industrial orders and output, and to some tentative signs that the downward trend in employment is starting to reverse...
An upbeat quarterly survey of business sentiment came out just before Mr Abe's announcement.But the economic improvement remains tentative.
Absorbed with the glories of its past and tentative about its future, jazz has grown content to revel in the conservative pleasures of ennobling sentiment.
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.
