Sentences with phrase «more tentative»

Moderating predictions were more tentative; it was predicted that instrumental social support and support services would buffer the relationship between daily parenting stress and daily negative mood, whereas unsupportive interactions and disruptive child behaviors would intensify the effect of daily parenting stress on daily negative mood.

While Pai was confirmed by a Republican - controlled Congress, there was bipartisan concern about his neutrality repeal plan, including calls for delay from Sen. Susan Collins (R - ME) and Rep. Mike Coffman (R - CO), as well as more tentative statements from other Republican lawmakers.

They are a platform for scientists to present more tentative results, hypotheses and interpretations.

Conclusions are being drawn, though generally they are more tentative, as befits the more limited level of scientific support for the such conclusions.

Does this mean that the poorest - performing — and hence most over-confident — expert is believed more than the top performer whose displayed confidence may be a little more tentative?

And new science is always on the edge of understanding, and so it's implicitly more tentative.

They have concluded that there is loss of sensitivity beyond about 500 years, and while more widespread but noisier geothermal heat flux measurements can be used to go back further, the resulting estimates are far more tentative and quite subject to a priori constraints in the required mathematical inversion.

Here instead something more exploratory is offered, no less serious but more tentative, something more representative of the manner in which work comes into being.

But from close up (a vantage point no painter can resist), the brush and paint marks appear more tentative, as if they have been reworked or rubbed out.

Lines drawn fast and bold describe four figures, while more tentative, carefully made marks barely delineate a foot, and a bird in a cage.

The other paintings — similarly reduced and shiny silhouettes of young girls, birds and roses — seem much more tentative and arbitrary.

A few are more tentative and ephemeral, appearing as diagrams or schemes with a stark frontality.

Choji is a bit more tentative in his attacks, but deals a heavy blow to opponents, tossing his enemies to the opposite side of the fighting arena.

If your best buddy appears stiff first thing in the morning or is more tentative when navigating stairs or jumping up and down off the furniture, I encourage you to contact your veterinarian.

Socialization will not make it less of a watchdog but it will make the dog less aggressive and more tentative to spring into hostile action.

If fact, the only element to show any fatigue was the front tyres; the ABS became more eager to activate under braking and you have to be a little more tentative with the throttle in the tighter corners to retain full traction.

One possible activity is that students add in alternative interpretations and make the analysis more tentative.

Marston's attraction to her is instant; Olive and Elizabeth's feelings for one another are more tentative.

Other scientists are more tentative.

In the San Luis Valley, the response of the Medina family to their newly revealed Jewish genetic legacy was more tentative.

So, for a lot of kids who are more reserved and a little bit more tentative, they might spend more time — they might enjoy spending more time with what I would call kind of the early stages of potty training which is the reading the books about it.

He certainly looked good, but if he had been been benched for 7 games after his 2nd game, he would probably have come back much more tentative.

Vic could and should have done some things differently in the second half when the team looked and played more tentative on offense, exactly what I don't know, but he knows this team and should have found a better button to push to help get them through that better.

Indeed, the magnitude of culinary prowess and F&B ingenuity displayed at the Lexus Grand Tasting, which includes an international showcase of the world's premiere wines and spirits, makes attendance an absolute must for hardcore foodies and more tentative dish dabblers, alike.

But it you're a bit more tentative about it, you can mix it with juice, or flavored carbonated water... or use it in recipes.

But biblical remedies are more tentative.

At that same moment, alas, matters become more tentative.

Carl F. H. Henry's recent volume, Evangelicals in Search of Identity, contains a more thoughtful and more tentative diagnosis of the crisis.

The report's authors are more tentative.

In what he admits is «more tentative and exploratory than any other part of my discussion of metaphysics and education» (WPP 86), Brumbaugh attempts to convey some of the elements in this new vision of the aesthetically interesting.

It certainly may try, and even if it hits on the truth of the matter, since the human is a Mystery unto Itself (and set within the context of Ultimate Mystery), are we not left with a great many perspectives on the matter, which might indicate that a more tentative approach may be the best way to go regarding the question of the OP, so as to make room for those who are just as caught up in the Mystery as we ourselves are?

But are Bible prophecies supposed to be approached like weather forecasts, or should we just be a little more tentative about our interpretations to begin with?

In the large industrial countries, on the other hand, the rebound has been more tentative, and driven more by the turn in the inventory cycle and temporary policy measures than a strong pick - up in private demand.

On Thursday, Michael Ferro solidified his control of Tronc, the company he seized a more tentative kind of control of just 13 months ago, deposing then - Tribune Publishing CEO Jack Griffin in a quick coup de press.

Not exact matches

Netflix has had the global streaming - video market more or less to itself for some time now, apart from a few tentative steps made by smaller players such as HBO.

It would be several more years before Microsoft and Sony took their first tentative steps into digital distribution, but their coming consoles have made that ability a pillar of their feature set.

My tentative goal right now is to be equally balanced in a few years after I have the chance to start some more positions.

Canadians tentative about trade with China; more bullish on the EU, UK September 7, 2017 — As negotiators for Canada, the United States, and Mexico revealed this week they've made little progress on revising the North American Free Trade Agreement

But there have been tentative indications of a thawing among the two sides, with stories suggesting Berlin was inclined to stand down more than its opposition to Greek plans to situation brief - expression financial debt to relieve its funding disaster.

Lutheran theology's antinomian tendency makes it perhaps more vulnerable than the other Reformation traditions in spite of the countervailing forces of its sociology and its doctrinal tradition, although here and there an older methodology, which understands that the Gospel does not negate the commandments, lives side by side with neo-Lutheranism and makes possible at least a tentative no to the likes of the task force.

• «Are we to speak of God's work in the lives of all men and women only in tentative terms of hope that they may experience something of him, or more positively in terms of God's self - disclosure to people of living faiths?»

These questions and more need answers, however partial, however tentative.

The mysterious origin from which our cosmos came and the even more mysterious future into which it is moving must render us very tentative in our attempts to say what this universe is all about.

Rather, the profound negativities of human existence — personal, societal and historical — seem so pervasive in this age that any route to fundamental trust must be far more circuitous, tentative and even potholed than I had once hoped.

Let me then take a few tentative swipes at the more obvious messes I have found around me as a student of theology.

And I have admit that I always give the «lawyer's argument» for the great book I'm teaching, while often merely alluding to criticisms both tentative and pointed.The Catholic approach is not appropriate for a teacher at a non-Catholic college, and my approach usually has the effect I can't completely explain of making my smart Christian students more Christian.

Clergy were hard - pressed to retain their control over the lay movement and often found themselves advancing doctrinal compromises with the more extreme demands of the laity or, in response to organizational pressures, advancing tentative solutions that turned out to have unintended consequences.

To return to daylight hours, however, I have reached a few tentative answers to that question for the present and a few «hints and guesses» about the ways to answer that question more fully in the future.

Be a calm voice of reason and love to all people you interact with on the internet, because the internet is one way the Holy Spirit is inviting people to take a tentative step in following Jesus in a more relational way.

Putnam's arguments about underlying causes are more qualified and tentative than those about the decline itself.