Sentences with phrase «making tentative»

The last 12 months has seen Japan's supply chain industry making tentative steps away from being a simple cost centre function towards self - enablement, contributing to sales, and developing a burgeoning focus on the commercial aspect, according to Marc Burrage, Managing Director of Hays Japan.

Years ago, when I lived in London, making my tentative forays into the art world, passing through the door to a gallery was a momentary ordeal, bedeviled by halting indecision and uncertainty about what lay beyond.

I love making tentative bookings with Southwest because the airline doesn't levy any change or cancellation fees on its tickets, even for award flights.

If they hadn't seen a photo of me, they must have stood waiting for me, their eyes pricking up every time they saw a girl walking on her own, making tentative eye contact, and wondering if this was their blind date!

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed on Friday that Democrats are making tentative plans to use reconciliation to pass a health care bill.

-- We will examine the utility of screening for enhancing provider - patient discussion of experience, deepening or repairing relationships, making tentative diagnosis, and offering a pathway to effective referral and the alleviation of distress.

Anfield boss Brendan Rodgers is making tentative summer transfer plans with one eye on a Champions League run and will now challenge Juventus in the race to sign talented 23 year old CSKA Moscow star Dzagoev.

A couple of bulls at the rear of the herd had turned and were making tentative moves as if to charge.

Collingwood did not elaborate a metaphysical system of his own, making some tentative endeavors in the manuscripts, «Notes Towards a Metaphysics,» «Method and Metaphysics,» and «Sketch of a Cosmological Theory.»

Over the past five years, Ottawa has made tentative steps to rein in CMHC.

I sorted some things out, and we made some tentative plans regarding our own journey back to church.

He became part of a conspiracy against Hitler at the highest levels of the German government, using his role as a civilian agent in military intelligence as a cover for ecumenical contacts that allowed the conspirators to make tentative overtures toward a peace settlement with the British government.

Maybe they've already made a tentative deal with Buffalo contingent on NY taking Chubb.

«But our chairman (Dato Chan Tien Ghee) really showed ambition and we'd made tentative calls but by that point it was so far down the road with Liverpool.»

An utterly fearless type whose only fault is that he sometimes babies his engine, Muncey has made tentative plans to drive a second boat, Thriftway Too, in at least the first heat of the Gold Cup.

Tuttomercatoweb.com reported that the Serie A club have made a tentative opening offer, which has fallen well short of Arsenal's...

Chelsea have made tentative steps towards the start of the campaign, Mourinho picked a different XI to start each half of the fist game.

The French international made a tentative return to the side after an injury hit couple of years but with just a year left on his contract, it's a surprise that rumours of an exit haven't surfaced until now.

Considering how there was very little to choose between them some four months ago, surely hosts Swansea must be made tentative favourites?

Trump will come under increasing pressure from visiting French and German leaders this week not to scrap the three - year - old nuclear agreement with Iran next month as American and European negotiators make tentative progress toward a new deal to toughen the limits on Tehran.

As state lawmakers struggle to make the tentative property tax cap deal a reality, Ron Melendi is lobbying for a cap of a different sort.

And Lord Adonis makes a tentative return to the frontline

But Darling's confidence is supported by a prediction from the National Institute for Economic and Social Research earlier this week, which said it expected we would make a tentative return to growth in the three months leading to November.

Gubernatorial front - runner Andrew Cuomo yesterday made a tentative bid toward establishing himself as a genuine Albany reformer — serving notice that he will not accept the nomination of the union - controlled, ethically challenged, under - federal - investigation Working Families Party.

So I discussed some ideas with RedTV for a new monthly show and made some tentative enquiries around the university.

Previous studies had made tentative connections between ULVZs and the plumes underneath Hawaii and Samoa.

By collating the specifics of height, distinguishing features like tattoos, and a description of a missing person's clothing, investigators often can make a tentative ID soon after a body is found.

Ronald Walsworth, an atomic physicist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, whose team made a tentative suggestion in 2010 that the quantum Zeno effect operates in diamond, says that evidence is growing, but that it will probably need to be clearer that the disruption of oscillations is due to the quantum process, and not other effects, before it can be used for quantum computing.

Applicants indicating that they have an «other» fields of study must make a tentative panel selection based on the list of field codes by panel that is available in the Proposed Field of Study section of the application and the bottom of this page.

With a noteworthy role in Hathaway's 1965 John Wayne western The Sons of Katie Elder, Hopper made tentative steps towards a comeback.

Oslo, August 31st A 180 - degree turn from his 2006 semi — film - à - clef debut Reprise, Norwegian director Joachim Trier's sophomore feature follows a former drug addict (the excellent Anders Danielsen Lie) as he makes a tentative last stab at putting his life back together.

Although still wary of Alec, he is even able to make a tentative connection with him when the pair finds and tries to save an abandoned seal pup.

In 1931, with a handful of silent shorts and features under his belt, director Jean Renoir made a tentative transition to sound cinema with «On Purge Bébé,» a broad comedy about an upper - class household put on edge by a constipated child.

The two bicker and fight as they adjust to their new life together and make tentative steps towards becoming an improvised family.

Murray and his five brothers make tentative plans to open the bar inside Rosemont's Crowne Plaza Hotel.

If the school can not accommodate all families applying for that grade, then the algorithm makes tentative assignments based on the school's priority groupings (e.g., whether the student lives within the school's broad catchment area) and students» lottery numbers.

Their methods — including an elaborate set of statistical controls for variables like student SES and prior achievement — also allowed them to make tentative causal inferences about which teaching strategies seem to be more effective for students who were stronger or weaker in math to begin with.

Sources from within Audi claim it is entirely possible that the Q8 will make the tentative A9 flagship coupe redundant even before the concept car under preparation for the next Frankfurt show has been completed.

Originally mid-engined in prototype form, it had switched to the famous rear - engined configuration by the time it made tentative production towards the end of 1948.

We make the tentative deal (trade) online, with no pressure and more importantly no games.

The pair has not only made a bonafide breakdown of the steep uptrend support line that has been in place for much of the year, it has also just made a tentative breakdown below key support in the 1.4800 price region, establ...

Interestingly, Laxey Partners & RIT Capital were each listed as 7 - 8 % shareholders, and Grand City Properties made a tentative bid, but that's well over a year ago now.

Most veterinarians will make a tentative diagnosis of asthma by observing the classic bronchial «donut» appearing airway changes on chest X-rays.

Physical exams and X-rays are most commonly used to make a tentative diagnosis of bone cancer, as most pets will present at an advanced stage with swelling and tenderness of the underlying bone, as well as having characteristic destructive bone changes apparent on X-rays.

Please call the clinic to make a tentative appointment before trapping and find out if the clinic will be able to accommodate the cats.

His board made a tentative commitment but only if he could find other support.

Twombly's signature line, nervous and diagonally adrift, makes a tentative appearance, faintly penciled, suggesting a sloping hill in six drawings near the entrance.

With hurricane Arthur headlining the news as throwing a possible wet blanket on 4th of July fireworks shows along the Northeast coast and with a new record being set each passing day for the longest period between major (Category 3 or greater) hurricane landfalls anywhere in the U.S. (3,173 days and counting), we thought that now would be a good time to discuss a new paper which makes a tentative forecast as to what we can expect in terms of the number of Atlantic hurricanes in the near future (next 3 - 5 years).

'' «Austerity - whacked Europe is rolling back subsidies for renewable energy, as economic sanity makes a tentative comeback,» London Globe and Mail columnist Eric Reguly observed.

While talking with them, we made tentative plans for them to translate some of their blog posts into English so that we can cross post them on Skeptical Science.