Sentences with phrase «tentative at»

There have been no published studies where BPD and BD have been directly compared, making any conclusions tentative at best.

The financial outlook is tentative at best and grim at worst.

[laughs] That he did, even though we were very tentative at first.

For Tacoli (2009) the current alarmist predictions of massive flows of so - called «environmental refugees» or «environmental migrants», are not supported by past experiences of responses to droughts and extreme weather events and predictions for future migration flows are tentative at best.

She was quite tentative at first as if she was expecting me to be appalled by the idea.

And though I was tentative at first, I remembered that it wasn't made by Ubisoft and that there weren't any radio towers to climb in this big field, so no problem there either.

Furthermore, the link to Star Fox, particularly Fox McCloud is tentative at best, however the developers do an okay job of giving the game that franchise feel with some cinematics thrown into the mix.

It's fun at the time, yet ultimately forgettable and the links to the Star Fox universe are tentative at best.

Mark Hulbert wrote: «Let me hasten to add that, with 25 years of data for just 13 letters, generalizations must be tentative at best.

«Everyone was being a little tentative at the start, but I felt confident with my Michelins.

And the link between teacher pay and student achievement has been shown to be tentative at best.

Fantastic Four 2 was at one point scheduled for a June 2, 2017, but the latest reports have that film tentative at best.

Tentative at first, Elisa senses that she has something going with the Asset and teaches him sign language which proves he has a good head on his shoulders as well as other functioning body parts.

Though much of the film offered positive delineation, the picture could come across as a bit tentative at times.

The relationship between Chloe and Nadine is tentative at best, however as the game progresses, their so - called friendship develops, even though they are both after 50 % of the treasure.

Spring is beautiful, but in the Berkshires it can be tentative at best.

Although tentative at the moment, the findings nevertheless suggest «that [hunger - stressed] birds are not doing quite that well,» says Buchanan.

Tentative at first, by the end of last week his positioning was assured.

All of the programs that we have ever attended have been together, so I was tentative at first but was willing to give it a try if he was.

So both teams were fairly tentative at the start, passing the ball around well without creating too much.

I've been too tentative at times.»

While the signs of improvement are still tentative at this stage, they have been accompanied by a noticeable lift in sentiment in international financial markets.

Not exact matches

SEOUL, April 26 - Unionized workers at General Motors Co's South Korean unit voted to approve a tentative wage deal agreed with the automaker, the union said on Thursday.

One analyst called the deal «very rich» for workers at Verizon, the number - one U.S. wireless provider, which reached the tentative pact with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) on Friday.

Musk chimed in a few days later to confirm the tentative date of the rocket's maiden flight: «Aiming for first flight of Falcon Heavy on Feb 6 from Apollo launchpad 39A at Cape Kennedy.

Japan «s unemployment rate held steady in October as the availability of jobs improved and household spending fell at a slower pace, a tentative sign that a robust labor market is lending support to domestic demand.

But their web - savvy descendants are largely shying away from demanding any commitment at all from their tentative new customers, betting that convenience of use, low prices and a personalized touch will be enough to get their subscribers to buy — and then buy again.

Unless you're a serial entrepreneur, it's natural to feel at least a bit hesitant about any new venture and especially tentative about a personal brand.

The blow is cushioned somewhat by the state's strong reserves, a decades - long push to diversify and a tentative return to Texas - style GDP growth at the beginning of 2017.

Lear workers in Ajax, Ontario, widely rejected a tentative labour deal, prolonging a strike at a factory that supplies seats to a nearby Fiat Chrysler plant.Wednesday, May 2, 6:38 am ET

A tentative deal for $ 500 million fell through because Qatar sought to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest after Jared Kushner was named senior White House adviser, according to Tom Barrack, a Trump friend who had suggested Hamad look at investing with the Kushners.

The Ethereum Metropolis hardfork will be happening this month with a tentative date set at September 22.

Neil Wilson, a senior analyst at ETX Capital, said in an email on Tuesday morning: «Bitcoin faces a regulatory crunch sooner or later and increasingly we see signs of this starting to bite following South Korea's tentative plans to ban trading on cryptocurrencies and China's move to shutter mines.

At the same time, following the tentative nuclear accord with Iran, many Gulf states are ramping up their own production in what appears to be a somewhat desperate effort to maintain market share.

All of the analysis at the time was tentative, though, because, before it could release its decision, the EC had to redact it.

Recent data suggest that the tentative recovery in exports evident at the time of the previous Statement has continued (Graphs 45 and 46).

The OFR looked at leverage levels, risk modeling and quantity of illiquid assets to reach its «very tentative» conclusion.

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.

At first he reluctantly agreed that a tentative probe northward would solve the problem of Palestinian attacks from Soviet - built missiles that were raining death on northern Galilee.

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.

For many of the relationships between the two that have been suggested are at best highly tentative, and in any event can not be construed to imply causation.

Assessing the present value of any given, innate, physical investment over the course of its projected «life» is at best a tentative and highly uncertain undertaking.

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

At a fundamental level all science is tentative, so, in a certain sense, a «definitive» answer is unattainable.

What the two groups have found is the beginnings of a detection «bump»: ATLAS team quotes a tentative result at 125 - 126GeV with a statistical significance of 3.6 σ (3.6 standard deviations); the CMS team finds one at 124GeV at a lower confidence level of 2.6 σ.

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.

Only a partial and tentative answer at best can be given to this question.

Maybe we need (this is very tentative) to alert ourselves more than we do to the tragic elements lying just beneath the surface of the parabolic, and even to receive what is offered to us as tragedy as parable, at least in an extended use of that already comprehensive concept.

He explicitly distinguishes the metaphysical description that aims at giving the general character of any entity (a description that always remains tentative) from the tentative account appropriate to the development of a «cosmic epoch» (PR 90f, 96 - 7).