hesitantly

Examples of hesitant

hesitant
The second consideration that makes me hesitant to accept the idea that welfare should be seen as a normative concept is purely economical.
In addition, it developed the principles of progressive fines and punishments, and a hesitant distinction between violent and non-violent crimes.
They seem to be hesitant to disturb a political equilibrium built on the exchange of subsidies for political legitimacy.
This hesitant narrative would still meet with some vigorous dissent.
Is there reason to be more hesitant in labeling children?
The infantry was hesitant to advance under air cover, instead preferring to move in after the bombardment had expired.
Urban medievalists are rightly hesitant to undervalue the importance of ritual and ceremony in the daily life of towns.
I would be a bit hesitant to privilege this perspective to such an extent.
Composers are often especially modest or at least hesitant to do so.
They should find out about the opportunities presented by independent prescribing and should not be hesitant to take the process forward.
Yet, we would have been hesitant to draw inferences about the effects of community structure from just a few ethnographies.
In our psychiatric nomenclature, schizophrenia is a functional disorder, and we are hesitant to diagnose the disorder in the presence of acute drug intoxication.
There was thus support, albeit hesitant, for this type of central government.
If the participants were hesitant or looked puzzled about enacting the sentence, they were encouraged to do whatever they thought was right.
They are also understandably hesitant about interviews on the subject of belief that might be seen as proselytising.
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