Sentence examples for tentative shift from inspiring English sources
But the yes campaign is still only leading in Scotland, suggesting that despite the fluctuating polls it may have an insurmountable job to turn a tentative shift into a decisive victory by Thursday.
"Since Putin's return... not only has the tentative shift towards liberalization of the Medvedev era been totally reversed, but also authoritarianism in Russia has reached a level unknown in recent history," said Rachel Denber, deputy director of the group's Europe and Central Asia Division.
Despite tentative shifts in opinion that have been hailed as evidence it is becoming less pious, the US remains massively and pervasively religious – it's inconceivable that a professed unbeliever could become president, for example.
In a state that pioneered bans on smoking tobacco, smoking cannabis is now easier than almost anywhere in the world.California, with its network of pot-friendly physicians, offers the most visible evidence of a tentative worldwide shift towards a more liberal policy on drugs.
Matthew Warchus's pale, strangely tentative production shifts the emphasis to James Goldman's brittle book.
There's at least some anecdotal evidence for this, but it's tentative; the shifts Quitzau and Ropke documented shouldn't be expected to disappear in a year or two.
There have been tentative identifications.
Southern California water agencies reached a tentative agreement to shift millions of gallons of Colorado River water used by desert farmers to fast-growing urban San Diego.
The shift remains tentative — and far short of the accusations made by Colonel Qaddafi that he faces an insurgency led by Al Qaeda — but even the opposition acknowledges the threat of radicalization in a drawn-out conflict.
Our findings provide tentative support for the shift to formative learning with the introduction of SLEs, albeit raising concerns around trainees' and trainers' understandings about SLEs.
