How To Use Provisional In A Sentence

Blunders made by the Coalition Provisional Authority -- disbanding the Iraqi army, dissolving the Baath party, failing to stop the lotting -- are not the main problem. Jonathan Steele: Why the Democrats Should Use the "Defeat" Word
The bold provisionality and elegant openness of Merz's installations, as well as his own freewheeling personal presence and oracular writings, helped make him the most widely recognized of all the Arte Povera artists.
The internal debate within the Provisional movement has encountered some difficulties.
I was in negotiations with those who would know the leadership of the Provisional movement.
We accept provisional bookings by phone.

And I just visited an outpost, what we call a provisional reconstruction team in Zabul Province, where this fighting is going on. CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2006
Under the provisional plans, the wall separating the bar and the snug would be knocked down.
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) will chair the conference committee charged with "harmonizing" the House and Senate bills and has provisionally named conferees, largely on the basis of seniority. Lawrence G. McDonald: Will The Next Three Weeks Change Wall Street Forever?
If the fee is acceptable to WD King then I hope that your commitments permit our provisional meeting in Bath next Monday to go ahead.
It was a kind of empire built on very provisional and tentative things that might happen.
The elements provisionally brought to ‘Leukorhinion’ sp. in this report may also be referable to Leukorhinion if it were emended to include species with anteroposteriorly compressed elements.
Final retail sales data for August, published today, will test the accuracy of the provisional 0.4 percent growth rate.
‘Work is ongoing in processing these cases, with a view to issuing provisional entitlement statements as soon as possible’, she said.
Statehood, even if qualified as provisional or interim, confers a degree of sovereignty.
Certainly, for a limited period both of them lived in Kiev and it is also certain that during later years both were much involved with St. Petersburg where, after the Revolution, the first liberal, provisional government in Russia was formed under the premiership of Kerenski. IMechanica - Comments
This has changed in recent years with the introduction of US versions of originally UK style advanced learner dictionaries from the UK, employing IPA symbols mapped onto a provisional GA. P is for Phonemic Chart « An A-Z of ELT
But this does not diminish the importance of the provisional discoveries which it contains, which the writer has moved to incorporate.
Kennedy formally recognized a new provisional government on the seventh, a mere two weeks before he himself was murdered.
For as the American-led Coalition Provisional Authority accelerates, apparently unstoppably, towards a handover of sovereignty in Iraq to a transitional government next summer, a critical question is emerging.
According to the November 2004 provisional trade figures, the National trade deficit stood at 1,104 million vatu showing a deterioration of 264 million vatu compared to November 2003.
There is also bad news on the way for young drivers, with a major overhaul planned for the provisional licence system.
Thinking my ball was lost after hitting a tee shot into a water hazard, l played a provisional ball.
That is where the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority is headquartered.
It is not clear that the men arrested in Colombia, at least two of whom are convicted IRA bomb-makers, represent the Provisionals or, for that matter, the Real IRA.
Much of the uncertainty surrounds the dizzying number of ways of qualifying for a provisional ballot, a sort of emergency ballot that allows voters to cast a vote at the polls, then have their eligibility checked after the election.
That report contains provisional proposals for the construction of major flood alleviation works within the Edgware Brook and Silk Stream catchments.
Where uncertainty or dispute exists and it is necessary for a some factual determination to be made in order to comply with the brief, only tentative or provisional views will be expressed.
It was a kind of empire built on very provisional and tentative things that might happen.
In its justification, the court said that the lower court in St. Gallen can decide on the continuation or lifting of the provisional ban. Nespresso Rival Removes Capsules From Sale
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Although Lower Cambrian stratigraphy remains in a state of some uncertainty, therefore, it is possible at present to present a provisional view of the sequence of events in at least some areas of the world.
Initially only the High Court had jurisdiction to award provisional damages.
By the end of the day the members of the Provisional Government were under arrest, the tsar and his family were also under house arrest.
Gravid the kidney spherule filtration of kidney of the 30th week of transplanting is led but provisionality drops, 40% pregnant woman have albuminuria, but the majority after childbirth can disappear.
Johnson also provisionally estreated her bail of R5000, but said final orders would be made in this regard on the same date. ANC Daily News Briefing
He also admitted to driving with faulty brakes and steering, and to driving illegally with a provisional licence, which he got following a previous disqualification.
London Mayor Ken Livingstone recently gave a provisional thumbs-up to a tram link extension to Crystal Palace.
Her lawyer claimed that she had 30 driving lessons in the past, but had never passed her test and failed to renew her provisional driving licence after moving house.
The race was still too close to call because provisional ballots statewide have not been counted.
We're hearing a lot of big talk coming from Allawi and other members of the provisional interim government.
Until this is done, however, it will be necessary for the Internal Revenue Bureau to adopt, provisionally, one of the best existing forms of polariscope, and by carefully defining the scale of this instrument, establish a basis for its polarimetric work which will be a close approximation to an absolute standard, and upon which it can rely in case of any dispute arising as to the results obtained by the officers of the bureau. Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
In general practice in the United Kingdom, it is possible to make provisional decisions with patients and to review them.
Nothing in this Section 11.12 shall preclude other Party from seeking interim, provisional or injunctive relief from any court of competent jurisdiction.
The right of governing a nation belongs to the people of the nation; and the urgent duty of those provisional governments which we call monarchies, empires, aristocracies is to educate their people with The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864
In the meantime, the provisional festival programme has thrown up some intriguing possibilities for a couple of good nights on the town.
Mr Welch considered that a provisional allowance of £4,000 should be made for renewal of radiators and branch pipework in the main central heating system.
Rosa and Marco," said Antonio, "I give my provisional consent to your marriage. THE MAGICIANS OF CAPRONA
Contador, a three-time winner of the coveted yellow jersey, is currently provisionally suspended after testing positive for trace amounts of the banned substance clenbuterol. Tour de France organizers unveil climb-heavy 2011 route
The Brown's legal team said they now had instructions to petition the Chief Justice for leave to appeal the provisional sequestration order - this despite the fact that the Browns are to have an opportunity on April 17 to give the court reasons why their joint estate should not be declared finally sequestrated. ANC Daily News Briefing
We will go in and look at it, anyway," said his wife; and he admired how, when she was once within, she began provisionally to settle the family in each of the several floors with the female instinct for domiciliation which never failed her. Complete March Family Trilogy
To cope with Monarchist manifestations and pogromist movements, it is indispensable to take immediate measures to suppress these movements, and for this purpose to create at Petrograd a Committee of Public Safety, composed of representatives of the Municipality and the organs of the revolutionary democracy, acting in contact with the Provisional Government. Chapter 3. On the Eve
Obviously, in order to enable a person who has been disqualified to pass a test, he would have to be able to drive and obtain a provisional licence to do so.
An agenda committee appointed at the conclusion of the multiparty planning conference in Kempton Park on Saturday meets this week to start addressing a range of issues which need to be settled before constitutional talks can begin in what is provisionally being called the multiparty forum (MPF). ANC Daily News Briefing
If we are to arrest Protestant terrorists who are not chargeable (for the same evidential reasons which lead us to resort to detention rather than prosecution for many Provisionals), then we need to extend our policy. MoD took softer line on loyalist paramilitaries, secret files reveal
If not a provisional card another way of permission to be seen properly at meaningful auditions.
Statehood, even if qualified as provisional or interim, confers a degree of sovereignty.
Lots of top-notch breweries are set to be represented (although the beer list is provisional and subject to change).
Immediately after the handover, the legitimacy of the Provisional Legislature was challenged.
The three-page letter on Irish Provisional Government-headed notepaper is in remarkably good condition given that it was stored in a wallet for over three decades.
This explanation should be regarded as provisional at present, but it does suggest several important directions for future work.
The total sum paid to the Contractor shall include only such amounts, for the work, supplies or services to which the Provisional Sum relates, as the Engineer shall have instructed.
Its findings are never true in an absolute now-and-forever sense; they are always provisional and can always be improved.
Provisional ballots are a system designed to protect voters mistakenly dropped from the rolls or otherwise wrongly disqualified.
Goffman is claiming here that interiority is a provisional back-of-backstage identity wholly concerned with preparations for, or broody post-mortems of, front-stage performances of the socialized, theatrical self.
More often, the Provisionals intimidated the owners of bombed buildings into sharing with them part of the compensation.
The court also heard that on April 2 this year, although she only has a provisional driving licence, she drove unaccompanied along the M4.
In my judgment, a court which grants provisional measures is not by virtue of that fact alone definitively seised of jurisdiction on the merits of the dispute.
Joober and colleagues provisionally mapped PPI QTLs using recombinant congenic strains based on inbred lines C57BL / 6J and A / J PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
We understood the despair of Parisian gourmets and cooks, and we confirmed the verdict, provisionally announced at breakfast, that the sterlet is the king of all fish. Russian Rambles
Separately, Special Branch detectives said this weekend that Garda surveillance had resumed on alleged members of the Provisionals in Dublin, including people associated with Sinn Féin.
But without a “view from nowhere,” can we not only ever attempt to critically and creatively take up ideas that have particular genealogies and dialogically develop them into what are provisionally more universally viable forms? The Kyoto School
Radical and socialist theories look upon the present order as merely tran - sient and emphasize a dialectical tension between a provisional state of affairs and an ultimate classless future. CLASS
The first 'general army convention' of the Provisional IRA was attended by just thirty-four people
The provisional suspension of some constitutional guarantees came in response to a spate of murders blamed on the drug trade and turf wars over smuggling routes through Trinidad and Tobago, which is a trans-shipment point for South American cocaine headed to Europe and the United States. Trinidad reports mass arrests in crackdown on crime
About 300 employees were retrenched when the companies were placed in provisional liquidation.
Research has provisionally found the plants, prescribed by traditional healers to their patients, to be effective and non-toxic.
The amount of the provisional anti-dumping tariffs, the cash deposits, the guaranty letter and other forms of guaranty shall not exceed the dumping margin ascertained in the initial awards.
Initially only the High Court had jurisdiction to award provisional damages.
The Spanish team has provisionally assigned the newfound fossil to Homo antecessor ('pioneer man'), a species that they suggest could be the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens .
The meeting has been provisionally arranged for 3.00 pm next Friday.
But this does not diminish the importance of the provisional discoveries which it contains, which the writer has moved to incorporate.
Skopje argues that using a provisional reference to denote a sovereign state or, even worse, the acronym FYROM or fYROM is disrespectful American Chronicle
The rider will require a provisional licence but must also have taken the Compulsory Basic Training test.
This seems in any case to be what Au did in singling out as the report's "key point" a finding that arguably equates virtual property with deck chairs on a cruise ship -- each one "owned" perhaps by a particular passenger for the duration of the cruise but only in the most provisional and ultimately untaxable of ways. January 2009
The five tribes of the order are completed, the vespertilionidae being shifted (provisionally) into the natatorial place, for which their appropriateness is so far evidenced by the aquatic habits of several of the tribe, and the lemuridae into the suctorial, to which their length of muzzle and remarkable saltatory power are highly suitable. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
He rose through the Provisional IRA's ranks in the 1980s.
Unfortunately, the term voter fraud is again being conflated with the larger and real problem of election fraud which includes voter intimidation, misinformation, defective software, and provisional and absentee ballots improperly discarded. OpEdNews - Quicklink: "Voter fraud": Watching our language, again, still
The Council of the Ancients had, however, already decided that a provisional executive commission should be appointed, composed of three members, and was about to name the members of the commission -- a measure which should have originated with the Five Hundred -- when Lucien came to acquaint Bonaparte that his chamber 'introuvable' was assembled. The Memoirs of Napoleon
He was proclaimed President of the Provisional Government of Poland at the time of the Polish revolt of 1830-31, for which he was condemned to death but then escaped to Paris.
And the date of August 30 has been provisionally marked for that event, pending approval.
A Special Branch surveillance list drawn up three years ago detailed the movements of suspected members of the Provisional IRA.
Back at the office I've got plans, elevations, provisional costings, everything. FINAL RESORT
In the provisional plan, short - and medium-term gilts with maturities of up to 15 years make up 65% of supply. Balancing Gilt Issues
Tenderness of exit of pillow big nerve, have radiative painful, sensitive to pinprick or cervical skin is slow, cervical and aching provisionality reduces drawing.
A spokesman for Bradford Council said a provisional arrangement had been made but it was never confirmed, so no-one attended.
He basically felt that the Provisional Government was too soft and that it should go.
How does ability cure provisionality is broken recall disease?
Telegraph England name uncapped quintet in provisional squad for ICC World Twenty20 - 44 mins ago BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Each of these works its way towards an endline ensured, provisionally at least, to settle the matter and clinch it.
Back at the office I've got plans, elevations, provisional costings, everything. FINAL RESORT
During the 1798 Rebellion, weapons were stored in secret bunkers and in the 1970's members of the Provisional IRA used Gun Island as a hide out.
The counterorder of the provisional government was virtually ignored, and the committee system was subsequently introduced in all army detachments. 1917, March 8
The requested dates of work overleaf have been provisionally booked.
The 28-year-old from Bathgate lapped the two-mile oval in 32.427 seconds, an average of 222.037 mph - but found himself 0.6 sec off provisional pole position.
Once a cheque has been dishonoured, the collecting bank is entitled to reverse the provisional credit in its customer's account.
On Wednesday, their provisional 67-man squad is whittled down to produce a final 37-man selection for this summer's tour to Australia.
If some freedom of movement is allowed, acute inflammation resulting in nature's provisional swelling soon develops and repair is hastened because of increased vascularity. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
But under Article 11 of the UN Interim Agreement signed between them in 1995, Athens has committed not to object to Skopje's application to join any "international, multilateral and regional organisations and institutions" of which Greece is part, provided that it applies under the provisional name foreseen in the deal - Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia EUobserver.com - Headline News
Franchitti lapped the one-mile oval in 22.878 seconds, an average of 162.392 mph, to be an unlucky 13th quickest more than half-a-second off the pace of provisional pole-sitter, Brazilian Helio Castroneves.
George Drever, of Kirkwall, was provisionally granted an entertainment licence for the proposed ten-pin bowling centre.
The Official IRA declared a ceasefire in the summer of 1972, and subsequently the term IRA has been used for the organisation that had developed from the 'Provisional' IRA.
It has been on the provisional calendar before, but never staged a race.
The Officials were pulled into violence in the north, though were consistently less aggressive than the Provisionals.
When finally their friends the Bernois and their enemies of Fribourg proposed to install Jean provisionally at Gruyère under the protection of an armed force, the countess thought prudent to retire, leaving the château to the management of her chatelain. The Counts of Gruyère
I have never had to vote provisional, but I'm in Skagit County where instead the ballot is provisional as in missing data. Sound Politics: A Great Education, For $6K Per Annum
Executive Order No. 2164 of April 7, 19515, designating certain persons for the purpose of issuing provisional certificates of registry to vessels described in paragraph 1 hereof, is hereby revoked. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10351
Delegates also demanded the representation of democratic forces in a provisional People's Hural until the parliamentary elections.
We accept provisional bookings by phone.
They make guesses, set up provisional theories about what things mean, or how they might be expressed, and modify them in the light of experience.
Final retail sales data for August, published today, will test the accuracy of the provisional 0.4 percent growth rate.
Within a month, the president needs congressional approval for his package of 22 provisional measures.
‘There is nothing unusual about changes to provisional star-rating status prior to publication,’ he told MPs.
But since then the group has failed to attract the number of disaffected provisionals it had hoped.
We have provisionally arranged to go for a drink.
Because so many voters were disenfranchised four years ago, Congress voted to require that all states provide provisional ballots to everyone who turns up to vote but is not listed on the rolls.
I have here provisional plans for airports, plus full-scale ones for the future, all diligently prepared by Major- SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
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We accept provisional bookings by phone.
The seven republics had provisionally agreed to the new relationship on November 14th.
It was playable, but the pro insists I must play the ball I declared provisional.
Consecutive patients whose referral letters gave no reason for exclusion were considered provisionally eligible.
Within a month, the president needs congressional approval for his package of 22 provisional measures.
Chalabi himself says his relationship with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq is now -- quote -- "nonexistent" -- Bill CNN Transcript May 21, 2004
He said the company had incurred unforeseen costs when it was forced retrain staff after losing its former workers following its provisional liquidation in 2001.
How long does it take to assign a new provisional designation?
The Registrar shall keep a register of ships registered or provisionally registered under this Ordinance.
The US intends to have carefully-vetted regional caucuses select members of a provisional national assembly.
An 'interiority' too superficial to contact the truth lying at life's center; which no longer reaches the essential and everlasting, but remains somewhere just under the skinlevel of the provisional and the fortuitous. La nouvelle théologie
Provisional notice of City's intention to withdraw its membership of the Football League has already been given.
The provisional IPS estimate of long-term emigration from the UK in the year to June 2009 is 371,000, similar to the 363,000 in the year to June 2008. Crime And Immigration In Britain SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
The project's still in process so our conclusions are only provisional.
He also supplied weapons to the Provisional Irish Republican Army, a listed terrorist organisation in the United Kingdom.
Islamic-from cosmopolitanism, which, in my view, should strive to be secular and nondogmatic, provisional and subject to revision (632). Notes on 'Introduction'
They are unreadable inscriptions, and as such convey the permanence and provisionality of all inscription.
Riders who are found to have hematocrit levels of 50 or above are provisionally suspended, pending further investigation. Mosquera says he has no reason to dope and has a clear conscience
We have now made provisional bookings so we need names and deposits immediately to secure accommodation.
Assisted by the Germans, who hoped that he would undermine the Russian war effort, Lenin returned home and started working against the provisional government which had replaced the tsarist regime.
With this support, the Duma decided to form a temporary government (the Provisional Government) to take the place of the tsar.
Their general theory of rhythm, according to which it consists in the succession of arsis and thesis, i. e., one part leading forward and a second part marking a point of arrival and of provisional or final rest, is substantially the same as Riemann's (see his "System der musikalischen Rhythmik und Metrik", Leipzig, 1903), and is becoming more and more accepted. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
Note 14: Prominent educationalist and demoticist, and one of EAM's intellectual architects, Dimitris Glinos, spoke of '... the formation of a provisional government after liberation, which would provide for the election of a constitutional assembly based on popular sovereignty; and the affirmation of the right of the nation to decide its form of government; of EAM to halt any reactionary attempt to impose a government contrary to the will of the people' (Glinos, 1944). back Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
We learned a large amount of information and did a mock theory test which has prepared us all for our theory test to get our provisional licences.
His bail was provisionally estreated on Tuesday and a ANC Daily News Briefing
I applaud the government for intervening in that scenario and saying it would taihoa on provisional tax.
The second part will be a provisional bibliography of her published works.
(Provisional) for the previous month due to higher prices of furnace oil (3%), bitumin (1%). Undefined
He, together with the Vice President, shall hold his office for one year, or until this Provisional Government shall be superseded by a permanent government, whichsoever shall first occur.
In its justification, the court said that the lower court in St. Gallen can decide on the continuation or lifting of the provisional ban. Nespresso Rival Removes Capsules From Sale
Cobbled together from 26 provisional decrees and executive orders, the economic-recovery programme is an ambitious inventory of investment and austerity.
The murders, kidnapping, dumping of bodies, the seclusion of mortal remains, extortion and bank robberies by the Provisional Movement will be described as 'justified' by the perpetrators if their movement is given any level of support in the ballot box. Jean McConville's family campaign against Gerry Adams
The ultimate goal is to articulate, provisionally, a new theoretical and historical contextualization of early modern prosody.
Soccer Board of Directors voted to re-instate the provisional sanction. Second-Division Soccer Makes a Return in US
Custom! that skilful but unhurrying manager who begins by torturing the mind for weeks on end with her provisional arrangements; whom the mind, for all that, is fortunate in discovering, for without the help of custom it would never contrive, by its own efforts, to make any room seem habitable. Swann's Way
The licence was provisionally granted on the condition that fire precautions were met and added washbasins installed.
In my judgment, a court which grants provisional measures is not by virtue of that fact alone definitively seised of jurisdiction on the merits of the dispute.
In July of 1864, the Union Congress proposed the Wade-Davis Bill, which would have made reacceptance into the Union more difficult for the rebels who wished to set up provisional Union governments in occupied states.
But when the Provisional Government made plans in October to try to liquidise the threat posed by the growing revolutionary movement, the value of a centralised party that could respond rapidly and coordinate action proved itself.
The plan also envisages the establishment of eight district councils working under the Provisional Council.
Initially only the High Court had jurisdiction to award provisional damages.
The title's meanings remain only provisionally understood, but the term's significance was bound up in notions of learning, the righteousness of tradition, and the scrupulous observance of ritual obligation.
Concurrence followed by Indonesia's national legislature, and the name East Timor was provisionally adopted. The 2000 CIA World Factbook
Once a cheque has been dishonoured, the collecting bank is entitled to reverse the provisional credit in its customer's account.
A provisional date of has been pencilled in for the York and District Cup final between Selby Warriors and York Groves.
Thus my churchgoing was a merely symbolical and provisional practice. Surprised by Joy
The Eastern Church even has a word for the more provisional, interpretive activity; it is theologoumena (Θεολογούμενα), which is to say, simply, "to speak of God. Scott Cairns: The Feast of the Transfiguration
Another little-known fact about GATT is that the Agreement is only being applied provisionally and not, definitively, as provided for in the articles of the Agreement. Imperial Preference and GATT
Sets up a provisional Interrupt Descriptor Table ( IDT ) and a provisional Global Descriptor Table ( GDT ).
Deep excavation is a venture project, its risk represent that excavation supporting structure is a provisional establishment, once the basement completed it will blank out.
She also received a pupillage checklist, listing the requirements which had substantially to be met during the first six months of pupillage in order in qualify for the issue of a provisional practising certificate.
Release from the nunnery can sometimes prove to be provisional, and now she has immured herself in another cloister.
Timor Timur and the October 1999 concurrence of Indonesia's national legislature, the name East Timor was adopted as a provisional name for the political entity formerly known as Propinsi Timor Timur; The 2001 CIA World Factbook
Designed as a meditation on the Passionstory, it's an austere, rather forbidding piece: the style of the motets (which may be performed as aseparate sequence) harksback to Renaissance polyphony without a greatdeal of contrast or dynamic variety, while the sonatas arefar moredramatic: sometimes full ofdense, packed dissonances; at othersfragile and provisional. Rihm: Vigilia
Provisional Acceptance Certificate as per Appendix 11 the Contract signed by the Buyer and the Contractor.
The human body is no longer a given but provisional, perfectible, plastic; a work in progress. Times, Sunday Times
Blackwell ruled that persons who had requested, but not received their absentee ballots, would not be permitted to cast a provisional ballot.
It was announced that the times were provisional and subject to confirmation.
One was dominated by moderate bourgeois members of the Duma and would later become the Provisional Government.
These bones are the right size and shape, and in the right position, to be provisionally identified as metacarpals.
A woman of her word, Florence took me to the local Post office in the morning and bought me a provisional driving licence. TIME OF THE WOLF
The approval reverses the watchdog's provisional ruling two months ago that the deal was likely to be anticompetitive. Times, Sunday Times
At the time of going to press the game has been provisionally fixed for Sunday evening next in Sarsfields at 6 pm.
Besides the arrival of US troops, the United Nations has stepped up patrols in Cap-Haitien and Les Cays and positioned an armored vehicle near the Provisional Electoral Council headquarters in Petionville. Georgianne Nienaber: A 'To Do' List for US Troops Now Arriving in Haiti
There was a time when the provisionals sought to ride both horses simultaneously, fighting elections and plotting murder.
The new edition of Fassbinder's dramatic works has been given the more provisional title Theaterstücke (Theatre Plays), presumably in anticipation of further unpublished plays and fragments surfacing from the archives. GreenCine Daily: RWF/TLS.
I'm working a provisional cast on as I think that I'm going to cast off in a picot edging.
There is frequently something ludic, ironic, provisional, taking place here.
The inference from these provisional conclusions is that the two local authorities involved are engaged in a struggle to avoid being fixed with responsibility for this awkward case.
Timur and the October 1999 concurrence of Indonesia's national legislature, the name East Timor was adopted as a provisional name for the political entity formerly known as Propinsi Timor Timur until such time as the entity's independent status is formally established The 2000 CIA World Factbook
Many observers and commentators have wondered why it has taken so long for the Coalition and the provisional government to act.
But then all claims to knowledge about the physical world are corrigible, and we must reach provisional conclusions about them on the evidence available to us.
Chance was an artillery cannoneer and his unit was acting as provisional military police outside of Baghdad. Gulf War II

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