Many engineering schools in the U.S. that had previously admitted only male students began to tentatively adopt coeducation.

Just as Millner wandered the globe, from Cape Town to Brooklyn, tentatively adopting causes and identities, her writing has an unsettled quality.

In December the European Community's energy and environment commissioners tentatively adopted a plan to tax energy in general, and nonrenewable carbon fuels in particular.

In November, the Village of Flower Hill tentatively adopted a revised code for the first time in 30 years, deleting obsolete restrictions on hunting and operating steam whistles.

Without a title sponsor for 2009, the race tentatively adopted the moniker of Southern 500, the traditional name of the fall race run from 1950-2004 on Labor Day weekend.

The Economy The Senate approved a trade bill amendment, tentatively adopted the day before, that would require 60 days' advance notice of plant closings and mass layoffs.

The Senate tentatively adopted a proposal this evening to require employers to give 60 days' notice of plant closings or mass layoffs.

As a young child interested in science, Wise tentatively adopted an old Earth creationist point of view after doing a science fair project on the geologic column, but was not completely satisfied with that decision:

Later, Pearl, whose father was her slavemaster, falls in love with a white man and tentatively adopts an orphaned black child who, in the end, rejects her because of her light skin and whom she ruefully lets go of.