Even this tentative diplomatic toe-dipping was fraught.
The region can scarcely afford this tentative approach.
Further work will be needed to confirm this tentative hypothesis.
This tentative estimate represents a lower bound for two reasons.
This tentative or provisional, often contradictory, understanding makes analysis complex.
Michigan legislators have been pushing for the federal government to replace the lock, but so far, the best that's come through is a tentative cost-benefit study.
Together they went through the tentative proposal for Kassig's unilateral release and hammered out the terms of engagement.
We stride out, gladiator-style, on to the suddenly sunbaked court and go through the tentative warm-ups of two men well-launched, as Amis put it, on the bullet train of their 50s.
He apparently started his life by being already intact — by being precociously ready and functioning to begin with — rather than by proceeding classically through the tentative, qualifying stages of development customary to the average very young human being.
Finally, through the tentative plan of one practical case, it demonstrates the great application prospect of the "3R" idea in the energy recovery.
