The phrase "tentative suggestion" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, you could say "I have a tentative suggestion for how we can improve this project."
It is true that Ed Miliband has taken the chance to make a characteristically tentative suggestion to extend paid paternity leave for fathers.
His tentative suggestion for making the link is that if a country persistently failed to meet the ILO's standards, it could be denied the right to bring cases to the WTO's dispute-settlement system.
What follows though is, to put it bluntly, a much more nuanced and tentative suggestion that higher levels of immigration might, in some circumstances, be linked to fewer jobs for British-born people.
Experimental results obtained by volume measurements during mechanical deformation are compared with the author's tentative suggestion (Physical Aging in Amorphous Polymers and Other Materials, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1977, pp. 83 96) that large mechanical deformation processes, even shear, may generate free volume.
His tentative suggestion was that, subject to the agreement of all parties and the strict requirement of protecting equal rights for women, it might be a good idea to consider allowing Islamic and Orthodox Jewish courts to handle marriage and divorce.
Here is one fairly tentative suggestion.
He said there were tentative suggestions about holding a memorial service for the family locally, but nothing had been decided.
Donelly said there had been tentative suggestions about holding a memorial service for the family in Canada, but nothing had been decided.
(To be fair, he has made some tentative suggestions that affirmative action be rethought, bringing him up to about where Ronald Reagan's people were circa 1981).Beyond that, The Economist, along with other mainstream media outlets, remains clueless about the real challenge facing Mr Obama, and, for that matter, Mrs Clinton.
In his seminal paper 'The idea of innateness' (1975) Stephen Stich made a number of tentative suggestions about the structure of the innateness concept.
Already at the stage of identifying and counting, shard morphology as seen under an optical or scanning electron microscope (SEM) can be used in conjunction with the stratigraphic position of the sample to make tentative suggestions about the particle source.
