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provisional

When something is provisional, it is something that is temporary and may change later. I can make a provisional agreement with you right now until we get more details later. As the original government was overthrown, a provisional government was set up to take control of the country.

provisional

A provisional refers to a temporary stamp that is used locally before an official one is released.

provisional

(= probationary, tentative) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon probationary employees a provisional government just a tentative schedule

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Simple sentences

I've got a provisional licence.
After the revolution, a provisional government ruled.

Movie subtitles

I am at liberty provisional.
I am the Provisional Governor of the Territory of Nebraska. You are?
You don't vote for The Provisional Governor. He is appointed by the President.
By the end of the war he was a provisional lieutenant or something.
Provisional liberty based on insufficient evidence.
They ought to obey the laws of the Provisional Government.
To be blunt about it, Mr. Hoyt took the most irrational attitude. about a tax law that was levied on him by the Provisional Government.
It's the Tax Act of the Provisional Government of Texas. of which I am District Commissioner.
I realise the amount is absurd and unrealistic. but I'm merely the servant of the Provisional Government.
As I also said, I am merely the servant of the Provisional Government.
These carpetbag crooks. intend to grab every big ranch in this part of Texas, and they will. if the Provisional Government stays in power long enough.
Your provisional government's collapsing, huh?
He's made Safed his provisional capital until the last Jew is exterminated.
Except that this situation of minority gives us the right to ask for the institution of a provisional receiver.
May the provisional Government have a Iong life!
The provisional Government. shall be fully observing the obligations undertook in respect of our allies.
Down with the provisional Government!
Commissar of the provisional Government.
The provisional Government has been overthrown. October 25, 191 7. 10 AM.
The provisional Government.
The provisional Government - the only people's power.
To save the provisional Government.
By the name of the military revolutionary Committee I declare the provisional Government overthrown.
Your provisional.
If not, we are determined to invoke the privilege of nobles of this colony. by His Most Catholic Majesty, Charles V. to depose his viceroy of the New Indies and constitute a provisional government.
He was a deputy in the Provisional Government in 1919.
Provisional liberty based upon insufficient evidence.
The power has been passed to the Provisional Committee of the State Duma.
Miss. I've been ordered to take you to General Guzman, head of the provisional revolutionary government.
That you slapped him, scratched him, the ambulance, provisional liberty, everything!
And if you want to eat your money, ask for the institution of a provisional receiver.
If there is a provisional receiver you'll do with me as you did with the three black men?
Ask for the institution of a provisional receiver!
Maj. Safir of the Haganah the underground army of the provisional government in Palestine.
Cordelia, I've been awarded a provisional captaincy in the Marine Corps.
You were from the beginning a provisional government not truly representative of the people.
Furthermore, this evening the provisional government has in emergency, revised the constitution to remove the child welfare laws and dispatched the self defense forces.
The judge decided to grant provisional release you.

News and current affairs

The goal behind the bombing of Yugoslavia, of Security Council resolution 1244 and today's provisional constitutional framework for Kosovo, was the creation of the pre-conditions for the democratic development of a multiethnic society.
Many of the actions and policies of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), as well as higher-level Bush administration decisions, seem to point to a resigned acceptance that early hopes that Iraq would embrace Western-style democracy were misplaced.
The first democratic local elections in Kosovo's history - which began last weekend - will bring strong pressures from Kosovars to write a provisional constitution and hold general elections.
High prices also enabled the Coalition Provisional Authority to add even more private security personnel to protect refineries and pipelines.
Only an appeal to this kind of membership can rebut the challenge of those considering support for a monarch's or general's or provisional government's coup in the name of their freedom.
This is because the second phase, which still has to be achieved, calls for a Palestinian state with contiguous but provisional borders.
Both are incomplete and provisional, fueling skepticism among their critics.
Although officially adopted in December 2003 by the Iraqi Governing Council, the IST's statute was framed under contract to the US government and approved by L. Paul Bremer, the Coalition Provisional Authority's Administrator.
Most important among such amendments is the repeal of Provisional Article 15, which has provided immunity from prosecution to all actors of the military regime established by the 1980 coup.
In a few short weeks, the Libyan opposition has been able to win the support of the population in the east without accomplishing much more than forming a provisional political body.
Yet the wall and the second phase of the roadmap, which calls for a Palestinian state with provisional borders, cannot co-exist.
In 1993, in secret bilateral negotiations in Norway (unknown to the Americans), Israel and the PLO reached an agreement about mutual recognition and the creation of a provisional Palestinian Autonomous Authority.
Initially, a provisional government that included members of the opposition was formed, but the opposition leaders soon left in protest at the number of cabinet holdovers from Ben-Ali's administration.

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