Sentence examples for tentative steps forward from inspiring English sources

The scheme is taking tentative steps forward.

They nodded their heads slowly and took a few tentative steps forward.

But in an atmosphere of little trust, the tentative steps forward were marred by renewed violence.

And so go race relations in this country, with tentative steps forward and tentative steps back, as whites and blacks, Indians and coloreds wrestle with the past.

United Nations officials hailed the agreement as one of several tentative steps forward in Africa, with war-torn countries like Burundi, Sierra Leone and Congo also struggling toward peace.

Even as mourners, including hundreds of officers who came here from across the country, took tentative steps forward, they acknowledged the cathartic backdrop against which Wednesday's services took place: in a country rived by a debate over race and policing, upended by vast protests and nationwide soul searching.

Get it wrong and your tentative step forward might lead to the proverbial three steps back.

Maybe North Korea's once-reclusive leader was ready to take another tentative step forward on the world stage.

Liverpool's performance represented a tentative step forward after recent poor displays culminated in Sunday's 3-1 defeat at Crystal Palace, though their vulnerability at set pieces and Mignolet's erratic form remain concerns.

There have been several factors at play in Liverpool's tentative step forward from 12th and four points above the relegation zone after the 3-1 defeat at Crystal Palace on 23 November to eighth and five points adrift of fourth place following Saturday's win at Sunderland.

With that, this study offers a tentative step forward in "[t]he ongoing process of building a theory of disruption" (Christensen 2006: 39) that attempts to illuminate incumbents' challenges to conduct strategic change in the face of changes in the environment (Eggers and Kaplan 2013; O'Reilly and Tushman 2013; Tripsas 2009).