They limited him to this period of time because they wished it to appear that they also were holding merely a temporary and not an unending authority.

This conception contains a measure of truth, as regards immediate and purely temporary effects; though, even here, it is made to seem unduly plausible by the recurrence of trade cycles, which cause wages at any time to move in the same direction all along the line.

Exceedingly temporary, but well timedwell timed.

But that's only apparentonly temporary.

" He had spoken almost superstitiously of the queer, lasting effect of the supposedly temporary arrangement.

This would be obvious in any case, but what makes insistence upon it peculiarly urgent is the manifestly temporary nature of the present European situation and the fact that within quite a small number of years our war front will be turned in a direction quite other than that to which it faces now.

It was thenceforward easier for the States to borrow money, although the Confederation was loose-jointed and essentially temporary; nationality was not established until the Constitution was adopted.