Sentences with phrase «very tentative»

I was at first very tentative about using a professional resume service.

People who have never been in sales tend to be very tentative about reaching out to folks or don't want to seem «pushy.

From an account of the last meeting, it appears that the steps towards this issue are very tentative, and curiously the Court appears more adventurous than the BarHaving said that the Court would not want to push ahead of the bar.

I have a very tentative design using one cold - water pipe with two pumping plants, each bringing up 5 m3 / s.

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

Joe Walker, a public relations representative of the petroleum institute who is leading the project, said in an interview that the plan had been under consideration for about two months and was «very, very tentative.»

But that went awry in the public eye, and since then the research was mostly very tentative.

With the exception of Dr. Curry, and possilby Paul Haynes, none of the individuals who has responded so far appears to do climate science for a living, and few are knowledgeable enough to state more than very tentative judgments.

Realclimate will emphasize the very tentative nature of this forecast, and caution that there is a danger that if one doesn't fully realize how doubtful some of the assumptions are, climate modelers may well be slammed with the accusation that «they predicted a cooling but it didn't happen.»

I was trying to estimate the mining footprints of solar and nuclear, and came up with some very tentative rough estimates that ore input for solar energy might have an energy density (per unit mass) ~ 5 to 80 times coal, while nuclear (convential US fuel cycle) may be ~ 20 times coal — on the solar side, this doesn't include some balance of system components, and on the nuclear side, it only includes the U, but on the solar side, the actual energy density could get much higher with recycling of the same material into multiple successive generations of solar energy devices, and on the nuclear side, breeder reactors.

The staff was great and very tentative!

Waiter at breakfast was very tentative and courteous.

This is a very tentative conclusion, because I need more data.

I received a Kindle DX from Santa for Christmas, and I felt very tentative as I downloaded my first few books.

It still very tentative.

This is all very tentative and may bear significant adjustments depending on how well you recover, the quality of your aerobic training, etc..

Monroe College spokesman Rob Seitz emphasized this was a very tentative plan, one of several options under consideration and that no commitments had been made.

Atletico Madrid have a very tentative lead on the lead in La Liga and may need a few extra players to maintain the edge over Barcelona and Real Madrid.

They formulated this conclusion as follows: «Although the numbers presented here are very tentative, they do suggest the following observations.

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.

Old Testament scholarship is currently in a state of flux, such that any attempt to state just where and how axial existence emerged in Israel must be very 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.

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

Berner cautioned that the conclusions «are very tentative.»

Not exact matches

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.

a tentative self - diagnosis, he says, in the very choice of coming to a pastor.

If you haven't seen it for yourself, I'm here to tell you it's very moving to watch eggs suddenly appear on top of tall trees and hatch, followed by squawking open mouths, and weeks later witness awkward, tentative fledglings learn to fly with their new wispy feathers.

A Man Utd fan since boyhood, the grim realisation that this competition is the only trophy his beloved team will possibly be able to bring home this year was enough to set in action the first tentative biological motions toward the stomach ulcer that would eventually keep Mark off the very Saturday beer that sustains him through these dark winter FA Cup weekends.

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

As Julia plays on a blanket on the floor, Dad has a very different, tentative watch.

We found some tentative evidence to suggest Labour voters had been less likely to actually vote than predicted but, even if this was the case, the effect would have been very modest.

The State's Comptroller, Tom DiNapoli agrees that lawmakers should be more cautious about spending money in future years with what's so far been a very «tentative» economic recovery.

Previous observations of the brown dwarf, published in 2014, provided tentative indications of water clouds based on very limited photometric data.

«It is tentative and very marginal but there is some slight optimism.»

«But I feel very strongly that — particularly at the Common Core level — students need to know how we arrive at those tentative facts.

But if she has been very slow and tentative about bringing you into her world of friends and relatives, you might need to anticipate a more tepid response, and you will need to be ready to overcome her objections.

Yet all of Marvel's phase three films and their tentative questioning of the underlying political ethos of the franchise feel like buildup for Black Panther, which in its second act comes very close to completely tearing down the Marvel Cinematic Universe en totale — and making viewers long for such a thing to happen.

Beautifully shot Bahrani's homeground of North Carolina, the film charts the tentative friendship between two very different social outsiders: Solo (Souleymane Sy Savane), a Senegalese immigrant taxi driver struggling to make something of his life, and William (Red West), an elderly curmudgeon who appears to have given up on life altogether.

Thus, we draw the tentative conclusion that access to the IDS facilitated their efforts to implement reforms - based instruction very early in their teaching careers.

Still tentative but very exciting and definitely not a pipe dream, this mid-engine super-coupe could within five - years pop up in the Porsche 960 / Lamborghini Aventador / Gallardo replacement triangle.

At first their letters had been tentative and skeptical, but now their correspondence, which was carried out in a daily flurry of letters and notes, had suddenly taken a very intimate turn.

We've had a succession of E-ink devices starting from the very first Sony Reader to the earlier Kindle and some of the newer devices and we've seen how the screen technology has evolved from a tentative and slow - refreshing experience to a faster, easier to read and even more economical one.

Anna wanted him very much, but after reading his bio, I was tentative.

Although tentative with strangers, the Pyrenean Shepherd has a very lively, cheerful disposition, and is a superb canine athlete who excels at agility and other dog sports.»

The Problem: These dogs are very uncertain and tentative in their actions.

You'll take your first tentative warp jumps and discover new planets and civilizations, conquer them with huge fleets or take them over culturally, forge very tenous alliances and generally have a good time.

Here's to hoping we'll see more about this game during TGS 2014, but at the very least we now have a tentative 2015 release date.

Caim is a very dark character and only a hero in the most tentative of senses.

But, judging from last autumn and this very order, their honors» preference is for narrow, tentative half - steps.

Here ECO offers two smart observations: (i) if the workshop is held only in Durban (rather than, as ECO would suggest, at the tentative Fall / Spring session) Parties will not be able to adopt a COP decision on the much - needed long - term goal just a few days later (as if at these talks anything was ever dealt with at the urgency and speed it deserved); and (ii) the experience of Copenhagen shows that it doesn't take a workshop to know that negotiating a long - term goal without understanding who contributes what and what's the fair share of their responsibility, will be very difficult.