1.   The decision, although just a tentative move toward action, was praised by some private environmental groups.

2.   This tentative move back into houseplants is tempered by caution.

3.   And these independent-minded organizations are making tentative moves toward unity of action.

4.   Sharon and Powell both want to see a cease-fire in place before taking even tentative moves toward official peacemaking.

5.   That would open a new battlefront in the Balkans at a time of tentative moves toward peace in neighboring Bosnia.

6.   The arrests could derail tentative moves by China and Taiwan to resume contacts, which were cut for nearly three years before recent meetings.

7.   Wahid had made tentative moves to eradicate the endemic corruption left over from the dictatorship.

8.   Alatas added that during a dialogue last year, the two foreign ministers had discussed tentative moves toward working out a comprehensive solution to the East Timor conflict.

9.   And Vietnam has begun tentative moves to improve sex education by launching question-and-answer programmes in the official radio and setting up consultant centres for teenagers.

10.   Even tentative moves towards common policing are driven primarily by the fact that criminals are already taking full advantage of the single market.