Ponting avoided the trap of responding to a small total by playing tentatively, preferring instead to keep England down by hammering some miserable seam bowling to all corners of a ground that currently resembles a construction site.
Syria's Kurds, who tentatively backed the calls for democratic reform earlier in the insurgency, have largely avoided being drawn into the country's civil war, now approaching a third brutal year.
Last week, it said it barely avoided having to file for bankruptcy protection by getting its workers to agree tentatively to $1.8 billion in annual concessions.
I avoided mentioning that the men I seduced were almost always white, and that, with my mouth tentatively poised over another man's mouth, I sometimes thought, I am not my mother; this is my story.
This assumes that players and team owners avoid a strike, tentatively scheduled by the union for Aug. 30.
When I am very much involved in writing a screenplay, I begin looking at the world like a series of frames". What has resulted is a succession of critically acclaimed films about ordinary people and "the deceptively casual connections of life that human beings tentatively make, narrowly miss, or avoid at all cost," wrote one film critic in characterizing his work.
Tentatively I scroll down, careful to avoid touching the horrid square, which re-appears every couple of inches, in case I am transported to a deeper state of weirdness.
Why have the U.S. and the West rejected outright the tripartite EU-Russia-Ukraine solution tentatively advanced by Russia that would avoid the zero-sum choice forcing Ukraine into an us-versus- them cul-de-sac?
A few hours later, when Mr. Ryan had to pull that bill, I drove my kids home tentatively optimistic that other mothers and children might avoid the harms this draconian legislation would have inflicted.
We tentatively conclude that planting S25 and particularly S365, and perhaps avoiding the use of S301, might benefit avian breeding populations, and increase avian species richness.
