The phrase "tentatively decided" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It typically means that a decision has been made, but it is not final and may still change. Example: The committee has tentatively decided to hold the fundraiser on Saturday, but they are open to changing the date if needed.
FASB's expanded, seven-member board has now "tentatively" decided to move in IASB's direction.
The board tentatively decided in January to drop the "strengths and weaknesses" language.
They tentatively decided that they would both go on the radio instead at 4 p.m.
Congress has tentatively decided to provide $14.2 billion for renewal of vouchers this year, an increase of about 15percentt.
"That left Tuesday, January 3rd as a possibility for us, but Iowa officials tentatively decided that their caucus would be on that day," wrote Mr. Gardner.
The Fire Department has tentatively decided to hire Edward McMellon, a police officer who was involved in the shooting death of Amadou Diallo.
The clinical phenotype of DC is continually expanding and so, in an effort to rationalise the diagnosis, a definition has tentatively been decided upon that is one or more of the classical mucocutaneous features combined with a hypoplastic (incompletely developed or hypocellular) bone marrow and at least two of the other somatic features [9].
It is possible that this species best represents an undescribed photosynthetic version of Warnowia morphotype I; however, because these cells could also represent Nematodinium armatum without detectible nematocysts, as observed by Hulburt [ 49], we decided to tentatively assign this species to Nematodinium.
"We could end up deciding tentatively among ourselves on the date for the peak," said Jeffrey Frankel, an economist at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, "and yet wait six months to officially announce it".
"I decided, carefully and tentatively, to unearth from my black book some of the stories I'd gathered over the years about Reid's escapades from the 80s and early 90s…Coincidence or not, no sooner had the first call been made by the first newspaper, following the first story I'd given out, than Reid announced he would be resigning… when Tony stepped down... the way was now clear for Gordon".
A senior State Department official said Monday that how Iran's stockpile would be dealt with "had not yet been decided in the negotiating room, even tentatively".
