There were only modest and tentative beginnings to all of this in the 1850s and 1860s.

But the rest of the concert was about individual relationships, from tentative beginnings to bitter separations to the determination to start again.

A tentative but definite beginning on mapping the genome.

Ayla noticed the tentative beginnings of trust developing between them.

I stroked the boy out and then slid him back in a tentative beginning.

Rodeo schools, which had their tentative beginnings in the 1930s, gained attention and growth through the 1950s, with the first regular school opening in 1962.

Stage 2 is really the tentative beginning of an international orientation.

The project's tentative beginnings were equivalent to a homesteading venture.

Each visit James and I plan to spend plenty of time on those paths, but last summer, as always, we managed only a tentative beginning.

A total incomprehension and the tentative beginnings of a dazed hope.