A provisory clause. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The next point at which a stand was made was the assertion that the condemnation of Galileo was "provisory"; but this proved a more treacherous shelter than the others. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom] Reference
Zinc plates are also employed as provisory supports instead of glass, opal or porcelain plates. From Wordnik.com. [Photographic Reproduction Processes] Reference
The march of science has always consisted in gradually eliminating these provisory conceptions and in reducing the number of causes. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882] Reference
The jungle was so dense and the growth so flexible and resilient that the gales were felt only as an annoying noise in Rhodan's provisory camp. From Wordnik.com. [Venus in Danger]
The only problem we had was with the date: Stephen had already made a provisory booking of the lecture hall and break-out rooms in the Kemmy Business School. From Wordnik.com. [Planning for a DellCamp in UL] Reference
Marshal Serrano established there his modest headquarters as regent of a provisory kingdom, and there lived Amadeo, who had the spirit to quit a throne which he could not occupy with dignity. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873] Reference
If this happens, President Lula might be in a lot of trouble when the time comes for the Senate to vote and decide provisory measures and other decisions involving legislative and executive power. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » Brazil: Digital mob demands the Senate President’s resignation] Reference
Besides the absolute limits of our knowledge, there are still enough relative and provisory limits to it; and there also are enough low points of view, mistakes, and imperfections in science, to justify us when we expressly form and establish monism as a maxim of scientific investigation. From Wordnik.com. [The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality] Reference
In order that the image does not adhere on the provisory support a little of the following mixture is spread over the plate, which is then pretty strongly heated, and, when it has cooled down, polished lightly with a piece of white flannel to obtain a very thin and even layer free from striæ. From Wordnik.com. [Photographic Reproduction Processes] Reference
But all is still provisory -- means to the great end. From Wordnik.com. [The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. I.] Reference
Nevertheless, such provisory acquisition is real acquisition. From Wordnik.com. [The Science of Right] Reference
Why is the whole world clapping a provisory and non valid result?. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
For the Arminian, the atonement is not effectual, but only provisory, and therefore. From Wordnik.com. [The Latest Post] Reference
We may refer to the provisory list drawn up at the beginning of Vol. I for November of the "Acta SS.". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
Hence a provisory acquisition of the soil, with all its juridical consequences, is possible in the state of nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Science of Right] Reference
Then no acquisition would ever become peremptory and secured, but all acquisition would only be provisory and temporary. From Wordnik.com. [The Science of Right] Reference
The provisory solution of questions of precedence in processions arising between regulars belongs to the diocesan bishop. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
Authorities on streetscapes and members of the public praised the street fixings at the provisory opening on Easter Monday. From Wordnik.com. [Budapest Times]
If that trend continued to it's (il) logical, extreme conclusion, wouldn't that change be negated, or at least, rendered provisory?. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Sêmonville, who was on his way to Constantinople as a special envoy of the provisory council then in charge of the Paris administration. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)] Reference
Before such a state is realized, and in anticipation of it, acquisition, which would otherwise be derived, is consequently only provisory. From Wordnik.com. [The Science of Right] Reference
The body's new position is that each company's circumstances will be assessed on a case by case basis, with provisory regulations brought in. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
A baboon looks on while on quarantine at a provisory shelter waiting for transportation to a refuge in the US in Cochabamba, Bolivia, March 30, 2010. From Wordnik.com. [Fore, right!] Reference
To enact which provisory character, so unspeakably important, might its whole faculties but have sufficed; and so a peaceable, gradual, well-conducted. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Why is the whole world clapping a provisory and non valid result from a man outside the institution and the institution members contrary to the regulations?. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
A veterinarian teases a lion with a piece of meat at a provisory shelter as it waits for transportation to a refuge in the US in Cochabamba, Bolivia, March 30, 2010. From Wordnik.com. [Fore, right!] Reference
A lion eats a piece of meat at a provisory shelter as it waits along other lions and a baboon for transportation to a refuge in the US in Cochabamba, Bolivia, March 30. From Wordnik.com. [Fore, right!] Reference
When José Bonifácio participated in the provisory government of São Paulo, he prepared a document that was signed by the members of the provisory government on October 9, 1821 called. From Wordnik.com. [Home] Reference
We do not, however, insist too strongly on these views, as yet somewhat provisory, and proceed to describe the principal collections of the next period, following, as a rule, the chronological order. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
CEI has an administrative role that stops at giving the provisory results of the elections within three days after the end of the elections, that is to say on Wednesday December 1, at midnight latest. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
And there was a re-enforcement of this impression of a moving camp, of a merely provisory home, in the suggestion of travel which hovered like an uncertainty or a menace over this fortune derived from far-off sources. From Wordnik.com. [The Nabob] Reference
For, although on the basis of the ideas of right held by individuals as such, external things may be acquired by occupancy or contract, yet such acquisition is only provisory so long as it has not yet obtained the sanction of a public law. From Wordnik.com. [The Science of Right] Reference
But so long as the form of the state has to be represented, according to the letter, by many different moral persons invested with the supreme power, there can only be a provisory internal right, and not an absolutely juridical state of civil society. From Wordnik.com. [The Science of Right] Reference
Electors, still busy redacting their Cahier, could not but support him, by Address to his Majesty: they claim utmost 'provisory freedom of the press;' they have spoken even about demolishing the Bastille, and erecting a Bronze Patriot King on the site!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
19 September 1993 in Cyprus: The UEFA Executive Committee agrees on a provisory admission of The Israel Football Association (IFA). From Wordnik.com. [uefa.com - News] Reference
Valenzuela said that the departments have to be demolished before they can give us provisory homes (. From Wordnik.com. [Wikinews] Reference
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