Like any older dog learning a new trick, Lady's first steps into the pool were tentative.
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The two oil-gluggers' recent co-operation on energy was, after all, as unusual as it was tentative.
Apple bulls may take solace in the fact that the USPTO rejection is tentative.
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His character, Will Hayes, is supposed to be a little lost, but the performance itself is tentative.
Her mesmeric presence is undeniable in person, but her approach to vocalizing in the studio strikes me as comparatively formal and tentative.
Start by identifying where you feel your reasoning is the most tentative.
Since Republicans are going to get hammered for even considering changing the current on-its-way-to-going-broke system, they might as well be bold instead of tentative.
Bush was much more forceful in his replies than he appeared during the first debate, where his performance was said to have been bumpy and tentative.
White House press secretary Jay Carney called the truce tentative.
Justice Kennedy often says that the court's authority rests on its ability to provide reasons for its rulings and so that until a persuasive opinion has been drafted, he regards his vote on any case as tentative.
Republicans are starting to see that Barack Obama might be vulnerable on the issue of government spending and excessive debt: his ratings among crucial independent voters have started to decline and the signs of economic recovery remain extremely tentative.
On Monday, Mr. Snyder asked the judge to "hit the delete button" on her tentative views.
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But impeccable judgement outside off-stump and a slice or two of luck saw him through those tentative beginnings.
The UK government takes advice from an independent Expert Panel on suitable sites for inclusion on the Tentative List.
Forbes staff writer Erin Carlyle developed a list of more than 100 tentative candidates.
The ISS has suffered a series of glitches since Tuesday that left ground controllers with only tentative command.
After a brief conversation which included a guaranteed trade-in price for our 1999 Jeep we had a tentative deal.
But even without walking out, labor leaders say there was enough on the table to reach a tentative deal.
His earnest courtship of congressional Republicans has resulted in one early, tentative payoff.
I'm going to see if I can get you to be a little more specific on this Senate tentative deal.
"It honors the moral obligation we have and keeps a safety net, " Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said of the tentative budget.
Mobile security beyond PIN codes and passwords is usually a tentative affair.
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In recent weeks there have been a few new tentative contacts.
This week, soft global data is providing only tentative support.
Assuming politics and Congress allowed, it should be technically possible for the IRS to pre-populate 1040s with numbers from W-2s, 1098s and 1099s and to produce a tentative result.
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Hoarding money will continue until there is tangible solid evidence that growth is sustainable (we are seeing some signs -- consumer confidence, house prices, housing starts, durable numbers etc -- but it is still tentative).
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Such hopes underlie the rally, even as the European financial crisis simmers, the U.S. economic recovery remains tentative and U.S. prosecutors and regulators say they are far from the end of punishing the industry for its sins.
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