364 examples of provisional in sentences

To lead his already deceived subjects the more surely into the snare, he announced his intended departure on a short visit to Spain; and created for the period of his absence a provisional government, chiefly composed of the leading men among the Belgian nobility.

He flattered himself that the states, dazzled by the illustrious illusion thus prepared, would cheerfully grant to this provisional government the right of levying taxes during the temporary absence of the sovereign.

But Philip had prepared, and the pope had sanctioned, the new system of ecclesiastical organization before alluded to, and the provisional government now put it into execution.

The object of this measure was at once to give greater union and power to the provisional government, to create a central administration in the Netherlands, and to remove from some obscure and avaricious financiers the exclusive management of the national resources.

[Sidenote: Colonial existence not provisional.]

The proclamation of the provisional government speaks for our views; no inference can be tortured from it to countenance barbarily or debasement at home, or subjection, humiliation, or treachery from abroad.

(Had Janet been warned of Hilda's visit, she would not have accepted an invitation to a tea at Hillport as a preliminary to the meeting of the provisional committee.)

Adj. experimental, empirical. probative, probatory^, probationary, provisional; analytic, docimastic^; tentative; unverified, unproven, speculative, untested.

La Fayette commanded the National Guard, and was a member of the Provisional Government.

The King wishes to have Sir E. Barnes appointed provisional successor to Lord Dalhousie.

I suggested that it would be expedient to unite the influence of Governor-General with that of Commander-in-Chief, and make Lord William Bentinck provisional successor.

On the 1st the Brussels papers announce that orders had been issued by the provisional Government for arresting all the Dutch officers.

The Provisional Government of Belgium have declared the independence of the country and the defeazance of the House of Orange.

No communication will be held by the French Government with the Provisional Government of Belgium.

The Provisional Government is going to send some mission here.

Besides, there are other reasons why I am contented that my father was a country parson, born much about the same time as Scott and Wordsworth; notwithstanding certain qualms I have felt at the fact that the property on which I am living was saved out of tithe before the period of commutation, and without the provisional transfiguration into a modus.

Most playwrights, I take it, draw up a provisional Dramatis Personae before beginning the serious work of construction.

He trusts to our conceiving such clairvoyance to be not wholly impossible, and giving it what may be called provisional credence.

The question is not one of psychology but of theatrical expediency: and the point is that when a situation is at once highly improbable in real life and exceedingly familiar on the stage, we cannot help mentally caricaturing it as it proceeds, and are thus prevented from lending it the provisional credence on which interest and emotion depend.

had for its object some provisional arrangement for the restoration and preservation of peace in the territory.

It had been a provisional work three hundred years ago, and had always remained in the same state.

He said: "'Jacinto Limjap having been proclaimed commander of the volunteers of the penitentiary, I ask you to authorize the creation of a disciplinary battalion and the provisional appointments of officers for 600 sandatahan, or militia, ready to provide themselves by force with the American rifles in the Zorrilla Theatre.'

" On being appointed lieutenant-general in 1798, Washington at once sought the aid of Hamilton for the highest position under him, assuring the Secretary of War that "of the abilities and fitness of the gentleman you have named for a high command in the provisional army, I think as you do, and that his services ought to be secured at almost any price."

He was appointed Secretary of War in the first administration, and in taking command of the provisional army Washington secured his appointment as a major-general, and at this time asserted that, "with respect to General Knox I can say with truth there is no man in the United States with whom I have been in habits of greater intimacy, no one whom I have loved more sincerely nor any for whom I have had a greater friendship.

Washington intrusted to him the command of the army in the Whiskey Insurrection, and gave him an appointment in the provisional army.

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