Stanford reacted to Connecticut's relentless pressure with tentative play.
Mr. Heron crept onto the stage with tentative steps.
The govt. came up with tentative promises of e electoral reform.
However the ambassador painted a picture of a job close to finished, rather than just having begun with tentative steps.
His diaries are filled with tentative predictions, usually based on experts' opinions, that the worst is over.
Japan has history in this respect, with tentative recoveries in the 1990s aborted due to over-hasty tightening of policy.
Over the last three decades, China's central leaders have experimented with tentative, bottom-up reforms to address these problems.
But more often they reinforce each other's introspection, turning thoughts of mortality into power pop or facing down loneliness with tentative voices but utterly sure-footed buildups.
(None of his early art is in the show; it begins with tentative drawings, made in 1964, which experiment with abstraction and ideas, never realized, for sculptural works).
Liberalization, coupled with tentative moves at decentralization under Anwar Sadat, Nasser's successor, revived calls by the merchant community for greater financial autonomy.
The same modest upward trends that a few months ago were dismissed as far too anemic to be noticeable are now greeted with tentative praise.
