ADJECTIVE
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for the time being
designated him to act as consul protempore
he is the president pro tem
ADVERB
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for the time being; temporarily
accepting pro tem that hypothesis consistent with the facts
How To Use pro tem In A Sentence
- Separately, Preckwinkle chose Commissioner Robert Steele to serve as president pro tempore, meaning he will run board meetings in her absence. Chicagotribune.com - News
- One took the propaganda for granted, with little knowledge of how and why it had come about; another was gratified to be associated with a party that was seemingly "reformist" and "revolutionary" at the same time, pro-American and pro-Soviet, nationalistic pro tem and internationalistic traditionally; a third type was more or less mechanically drawn in by virtue of key posts held by Communists in various non-Communist organizations, such as trade unions. Revisiting American Communism: An Exchange
- Elected to the state assembly in 1904 and the state senate in 1908, he became that body's youngest president pro tempore in 1911.
- WORD CORRECT PRONUNCIATION bivouac _biv'wak_ chargé d'affaires _shar zha'daffar'_ connoisseur _connissur_ dishabille _dis'abil_ ennui _onwe_, not _ongwe_ finale _finah'le_ foyer _fwaya'_ massage _masahzh_ naïve _nah'ev_ papier maché _papya mahsha_ piquant _pe'kant_ prima facie _prima fa'shie_ pro tempore _pro tem'pore_ régime _razhem'_ Practical Grammar and Composition
- The Speaker of the House, John Lipton, and the president pro tempore of the Senate, Jerry Bookout, were progressives and strong supporters of mine.
- DAVE OBEY APPROPRIATES HIMSELF TO K STREET - Dave Obey, the crankiest president pro tempore that ever walked the land, is joining Dick Gephardt's lobbying shop. HUFFPOST HILL - Dave Obey Appropriates Himself To K Street
- he is the president pro tem
- Coleridge's attack on the "beggarly daydreaming" of romance reading noted that "the whole material and imagery of the doze is supplied ab extra by a sort of mental camera obscura manufactured at the printing office, which pro tempore fixes, reflects and transmits the moving fantasms of one man's delirium, so as to people the barrenness of an hundred other brains afflicted with the same trance or suspension of all common sense and all definite purpose" (1975, 28). Reading Machines
- Tunc misit pro Christianis quos in carcere intrudi praeceperat: A quibus cum ad eum venissent indulgentiam petijt pro facto suo, dicens se esse amodo socium eorum, et confratrem: Praecepit autem et legem statuit, quòd pro tempore suo, si quis aliquem Christianum offenderet, statim moreretur, et sic omnes illaesos, et indemnes abire permisit: Pro illis autem quatuor fratribus interfectis quatuor mosquetas. (i.) The Journal of Friar Odoric
- Volum us insuper et ordinamus quod Abbas ejusdem monasterii qui pro tempore fuerit de cousensu saniorum de Conventu specialiter constituat unum monachum providum et discretum ad recipiendum ordinandum et expendendum totam summam pecunie memorate pro utilitate conventus secundum votum et intencionem mentis nostre superius annotatum et ad reddendum fidele compotum coram Abbate et Maioribus de Conventu singulis annis de pecunia sic recepta. The Monastery