Sentence examples for tentative stab from inspiring English sources

An initial, tentative stab at liberalisation last July provoked a vigorous and at times violent response from the country's taxi-drivers.

Professor Wolfang Georg Arlt made a tentative stab at that in a study presented to Germany's Hochschule Bremen, the university for applied sciences.

It took a Freedom of Information request in 2005 before the Revenue offered a tentative stab at somewhere between a missing £3.7bn and £13.7bn.

With the opening of Cena in New York last year, Mr. Laprise took a tentative stab at becoming an international chef.

"Glastonbury … festival … tentative stab wound …" begins his series of apocalyptic non-sequiturs before a version of Restless Year played with brutal intensity.

In Chagall's "Self-Portrait With White Collar," which hangs next to Metzinger's marvelous "Tea Time (Woman With a Teaspoon,)" a faceted forehead and deep under-eye hollows amount to a tentative stab at Cubism.

Germany, despite tentative stabs at structural reform, is struggling with glacial growth rates and double-digit unemployment.

I've made a few tentative stabs at teaching and writing poetry using this plan; to my timid-hearted delight, it works!

The first date, with its tentative stabs at bland conversation and carefully inoffensive verbal parrying, may be riveting to the participants but rarely makes for captivating cinema.

After a few tentative stabs at film acting between 1908 and 1910, he was hired by Mack Sennett's Keystone comedy studio in 1913.

While making tentative stabs at being an artist, he graduated from City College, having majored in philosophy, and reluctantly entered his father's menswear-manufacturing business.