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.
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.
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.
Definitions of art puzzle artists, collectors and economists, and values are tentative, based on shifting whims and fashions.
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.
Those are the same questions posed by the abrupt dynamic shifts and tentative pauses that fill Haydn's String Quartet in G minor (Op. 20, No. 3).
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.
Mr. Romney's tax returns were posted on his campaign's Web site on Tuesday morning after escalating pressure from the other Republican candidates, Democrats and even supporters, some of whom attributed his loss in South Carolina's Republican primary last weekend to his shifting and tentative responses to questions about his wealth, tax burden and overseas investments.
