How To Use Temporary In A Sentence

Management claimed the lockout was a temporary measure and that the plant would be reopened on May 9.
To avoid leaving the center posts in the permanent work, two rows of temporary posts were placed, as shown by Fig. 1, Plate LX, the center wall and skewback were built, and the posts were removed, as shown by Fig. 2, Plate LX, before placing the remainder of the lining. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158
There are some trademark pieces - elegant-legged tables and high-quality marquetry - mixed in with contemporary designer furniture, antique shop finds and some very in-your-face art.
Zunun Kadir, the famous writer, playwright and fabulist, was the founder and the pioneer of the contemporary Uighur literature.
Their preferences ultimately shaped the place of worship that Warren built, and the result of that consumer-driven approach to creating Saddleback is a deliberately contemporary, highly professionalized operation with a carefully orchestrated feel-good atmosphere. American Grace

Investigations indicated the fire started from a temporary storehouse at the building's rear adjacent to a boiler room.
Earlier, in the B turret of the Achilles, there had been a temporary delay in the shell supply, and the gunhouse crews took the ready-use shells from their racks and fed them into the guns. Graf Spee
Otherwise an adjective is attached, as in “temporary”. Matthew Yglesias » Stimulus Hypocrites Say ARRA Doesn’t Create Jobs, Try to Nab ARRA Jobs for Themselves
As the last country in the world to abolish slavery, only in 1888, temporary slavery due to indebtedness and forced labour has continued and been combated regularly by Government in isolated regions, where the arms of the justice system face a demographic challenge. Global Voices in English » Brazil: Fighting contemporary slavery
Despite the fact that the soloists just use these two chords, the improvisations are melodically and rhythmically rich - a signpost of contemporary mainstream jazz.
Contemporary African cinema has much to offer in its vitality and freshness.
It is also useful for some contemporary music where a light, jazz-style accompaniment is required.
Madame Grès, born Germaine Krebs, was once as well-known as her contemporary Coco Chanel, but while Ms. Chanel sold mass-produced ready-to-wear, Ms. Grès designed only hand-made haute couture that sold first as the label "Alix" and later as "Madame Grès. Collecting Vintage Dresses Like Art
The work of the Hard-Edge painters, their first collective exhibition catalog in 1959 asserted, runs counter to a widespread contemporary belief in the primary value of emotion and intuition in esthetic experience … the [Hard-Edge painter] is not preoccupied with art as an opportunity to make autobiographical statements. California Cool
He battled on with temporary replacements, which kept getting dislodged in training and preseason games. The Sun
A further explanation may lie in the principles and style of legal interpretation and administration that are operative in Indonesia's contemporary legal system.
He was a solicitor and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new premises were ready. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
In this respect at least, Mozart resembles his comparably productive contemporary Joseph Haydn.
She explained moreover that wherever she happened to be she found a dropped thread to pick up, a ragged edge to repair, some familiar appetite in ambush, jumping out as she approached, yet appeasable with a temporary biscuit. The Ambassadors
He was always keen to promote works by contemporary composers and also favoured neglected works. Times, Sunday Times
Katy chose to focus on design, as in functional contemporary design rather than fine art and sculpture.
How often I have I known him affect an open brow and a jovial manner, joining in the games of the gentry, and even in the sports of the common people, in order to invest himself with a temporary degree of popularity; while, in fact, his heart was bursting to witness what he called the degeneracy of the times, the decay of activity among the aged, and the want of zeal in the rising generation. Redgauntlet
In contemporary philosophical language these would be the doctrines of hylozoism and animism.
For the floors above, we can use temporary airsealing floor by floor, and portable equipment; when we have things atmosphered and lighted and heated, you and Martha and Tony Lattimer can go to work systematically and in comfort, and I'll give you all the help I can spare from the other work. Omnilingual
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (1939- ) is a prestigious contemporary Canadian woman writer, poet, and critic with international reputation and she is famous for her prolificacy and experimental techniques.
This is very much in line with the contemporary need to have everything explained in cerebral, rather than emotional terms.
The dissertation is on Chinese contemporary literature research from the view of comparative literature study.
It is one of the most commonly used counterirritants for temporary relief of pain.
The 'disappearing ink' is not ink at all, but a temporary discolouration of light-sensitive molecules known as photochromes. Times, Sunday Times
Educational object are new associates, including newly-assigned operator , managerial and technical personnel, temporary employee as well as trainee.
The actors themselves are firmly located in contemporary Rome: the vivid specificity of the social milieux is sometimes more reminiscent of satire than of earlier elegy.
The bust of Thales shown above is in the Capitoline Museum in Rome, but is not contemporary with Thales and is unlikely to bear any resemblance to him
The Treasury offers antiques, collectibles and a small inventory of contemporary items.
A parallel argument is put by contemporary feminist writers when they discuss Freud's ideas regarding relationships between parents and children.
He wrote in a highly individual, sometimes obscure, way that was in sharp contrast to the compressed intellectual style of T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden and other contemporary poets.
This is what theologians call a theophany—a temporary vision of God given to his people for the purpose of encouragement. ONE GREAT TRUTH
Here the mufti, or jurisconsult, appears to play a role remarkably similar to that of the roman jurist or contemporary European law professor (in providing Gutachten or opinions to courts).
It is temporary accommodation which puts most permanent local housing to shame.
Doctoral dissertation: " Secularisation and Christianity in Contemporary Britain".
This anthology pairs contemporary stories with folk tales, many of which interpret natural phenomena in the light of local knowledge and lore.
Opportunism consists of sacrificing fundamental interests in order to gain temporary, partial benefits.
Contemporary drawings show that the cookhouse was badly cracked as was the barracks and one of the caponiers had completely detached itself.
A temporary export ban was imposed to allow time for a British buyer to match the price, but the attempt failed. Times, Sunday Times
But neither vouchers nor other temporary housing assistance were available.
Such a gesture might look to contemporary historians like an act of archival vandalism, but it was entirely characteristic of the old school to which Macmillan belonged.
O'Connell sells contemporary glass sculpture, a popular medium for homes full of sun on the water.
This book is the most balanced account of the phenomenon of contemporary jihadism to date.
The ingredients for an ecological house are visible in an ordinary contemporary house.
The cash-strapped councils need the money to plug leaks in school roofs, shore up unstable walls, install modern heating systems, repair cracked, draughty windows and remove temporary classrooms.
I found myself a few minutes ago, by mistake, on a lolcats website. The lolcat is the essential representation of the malaise of contemporary life: people with too much time on their hands and no idea how to use it.
He wrote his doctoral thesis on contemporary French literature.
In severe problem patients a tracheotomy or surgical opening (temporary or permanent) above the Adams apple is needed.
You will recognise them for no more or less than temporary blips on a radar screen of satisfaction.
Perhaps there was truth in Croce's epigram that `all history is contemporary history". SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
Even early American democracy would get low marks by contemporary standards since there was no enfranchisement for the majority of the population.
Contemporary British composer Nicolas Maw, no slouch at doing gnarly himself, was represented by "Music of Memory," a suite of mostly nontonal meditations built around a lyrical theme from a Mendelssohn string quartet that made several calming appearances during the piece. News | SH | http://www.heraldtribune.com
The sheer size of both works easily reveals each grain of color within the picture plane so that they appear as contemporary reflections of the pointillist style of Georges Seurat.
What we saw on Sunday made a perfect vignette of contemporary middle-distance racing. Times, Sunday Times
The council has offered them temporary accommodation.
_Ophthalmia lymphatica_ is a kind of anasarca of the tunica adnata; in this the vessels over the sclerotica, or white part of the eye, rise considerably above the cornea, which they surround, are less red than in the ophthalmia superficialis, and appear to be swelled by an accumulation of lymph rather than of blood; it is probably owing to the temporary obstruction of a branch of the lymphatic system. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
I do not need to detain the House with a contemporary history of that sad state.
Contemporary sculptors often blend traditional styles with more modern ones.
But his first match in temporary charge of the team will be tinged with regret. The Sun
Furthermore, a temporary local heroin drought was created in the borough.
Kathryn led her own contemporary dance company for eighteen years and now choreographs for ballet companies nationally and internationally.
So it is tempting to dismiss his dim view of contemporary pop as the all-too-typical plaint of an aging fan. When the Music Stopped
Contemporary Western feminist theory in the 1980s moved beyond the dialogues that sought to differentiate feminisms from each other and instead began to articulate a more pluralized notion of feminism at its core.
To manipulate religious conviction into a political commodity is a contemporary form of simony.
The creeping fractures in both have been palliated by results in recent games, but the coming ones will determine whether those signs of life are indicative of temporary remission or permanent recovery.
Cranmer does not intend to delve into the divisive arguments which confronted the Early Church on the nature of Christ's divinity and his humanity, but to focus on the controversy which has been caused by a statue of Jesus with an erect penis, which is on display at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. Cranmer
Europe's intransigeance is forcing them to make at least a temporary alliance with the Pan-Islamic and Nationalist groups, even though the liberals know that anything like a holy war would dig a gulf between The New World of Islam
Prices were up for all of the auction house's major art categories, including £ 766.6 million in Impressionist and modern art, up 53% from 2009; ₤ £ 602.6 million in post-war and contemporary art, up 148%; ₤ £ 569.6 million in Asian art, up 145%; and ₤ £ 334.2 million in jewelry, jadeite and watches, up 55%. Jump in Art Sales at Christie's Points to Market Rebound
The Duke's foray into the world of contemporary art yielded equally predictable results. Times, Sunday Times
We decided that in the future, when a truck returned from a pickup, we would put all the boxes in a temporary holding area marked by a cone.
According to contemporary investigation, the processes of succussion or trituration disturb the atomic state of a drug substance by jolting electron (negative charge) out of its orbit.
They teach students to make sense of history as contemporary secular historians make sense of it.
Some alluded to specifically contemporary issues.
Yet the idea of a post-apocalyptic city captivates the contemporary mind and its images continue to proliferate.
In the south, where temporary jobs are common, about a fifth are selfemployed. Times, Sunday Times
The painting raises another question: how can native Hawaiians preserve ancient traditions within the calabash of ideas and cultures that is contemporary Hawaii?
But the Church wants to challenge that finding by meeting and debating with leading thinkers on faith and contemporary living.
Too many of the conjunctions and alignments here are so awful that one hopes they are very temporary indeed.
You name your favorite contemporary artist and odds are they are involved.
He was suffering temporary partial paralysis in his legs. The Sun
I only got a ticket for standing room for a temporary train.
Cyril Connolly had been a contemporary at Eton, and painted the most celebrated pen-portrait of the Prime Minister-to-be in 1938.
The temporary cease-fire agreement does not preclude possible retaliatory attacks later.
I am aware that the Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox, Mass. gave a number of contemporary music concerts this year and they were very warmly received. Skin and Bone
The school was granted some temporary prefabs to replace old dilapidated ones which were declared unsafe, but with both sets of these prefabs in the school at the same time, the children lost a lot of their playground space.
But the supposed need for an early revolution did persuade many to accept violence as a temporary necessity.
Crews hope to have a temporary above ground sewer bypass in place a little later today.
In the important second chapter dealing with the Council of Trent and the popes contemporary with it, the stress is laid again on the importance of binding tradition.
No, what is required is something contemporary, a song that at least emerged from the confusion of modern, urban Scotland, that sings of the streets rather than the rivers and sheepfolds.
Especially the partial person cropland in them at duty, domesticity also appeared temporary difficulty.
A temporary lift has been installed enabling wheelchair access to one of the wonders of the world.
Spring/summer and autumn/winter seasons are now about as relevant to contemporary life as Gregorian plainsong. Why fast fashion is slow death for the planet
A fingerprint is disposed to close the open circuit by making contact and thereby serving as a ‘temporary’ back electrode.
Schreker's opera not as a work from a turn of the century long ago, but as a paradigm with very contemporary relevance.
Should we simply accept that the messiness and contestability of contemporary politics leave little room for Principled Pollyannas who refuse to engage in any kind of feigning, fibbing, and fakery? John Seery: Bush the Bluffer
Tate Modern, SE1, Thu to 5 JunSkye SherwinS1 Artspace continues to establish itself on the contemporary art-world map with this unashamedly spaced-out show of Jennifer West film installations. This week's new exhibitions
Consumption rather than saving has become the central feature of contemporary societies.
You can also overcome one of the worst problems in contemporary life, that of cold coffee.
The obscurities of literary theory are mercifully avoided, frequently by such witty contemporary reference and colloquial language which bring Shakespeare into the world of today's reader.
Admit temporary defeat with good grace, retreat, reconsider and wait.
That truce may be temporary. Times, Sunday Times
Any government funding would be temporary in nature.
Displaying the temporary disagreements to the public would hamper communication of the consensus.
The figures show that the temporary closures are occurring all year round. Times, Sunday Times
As Hewitt has suggested, feminist utopianism, like symbolic interactionism, seeks to create new conceptual spaces in which radically different ways of being can be imagined and in which different distributions of power, including sexual power, can be conceived (Contemporary 17-21). Feminist Utopianism and Female Sexuality in Joanna Baillies Comedies
February 26th, 2009 at 3: 14 pm till bridge loans in anchorage ak says: till bridge loans in anchorage ak … tag antisocial torus temporary thrashes? Think Progress » Iraqi Leaders Call On U.S. To Set Timetable
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. Mahatma Gandhi
He said that if the plans for the multi-storey were approved temporary car parking space would be required while construction is under way.
The case involved temporary cabin maker Portakabin, which accused its competitor Primakabin of infringing its rights as trademark owner of the Portakabin name by using it as an ad keyword. EU Court Rules on Ad Keywords
Despite this temporary lull in visitation, the demographics of wilderness visitors continued to change.
This is temporary amnesia caused by the fact that human beings are not good at looking out for two things at once. Times, Sunday Times
They ceased to be temporary sojourners in the cities, expected to return to the homelands, often inferior pieces of land far away from industrial centres and jobs, where they held permanent residence.
At the top, a contemporary version of a belvedere frames a final breathtaking vista before visitors immerse themselves in the dense fabric and delights of the historic centre.
In this he differs from his great contemporary, Tennessee Williams, for whom the interior world of his characters is more real than their social environ.
His protagonists are too full of life and way too complicated to be the mere vehicles for ruminating on the contemporary dilemmas they face.
Hurts and pains are only temporary. Christianity Today
Clearly, contemporary views of heritability are populist market eugenics in a new form.
Contemporary American adolescents have become much more work oriented generally then those of a generation or so ago, mostly because they have been exposed to the costly allurements of a consumption-obsessed America.
His seminal works are more than three decades old and yet his books retain a strange, contemporary vitality.
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Although the operation should prolong her life, it would only provide temporary respite. Times, Sunday Times
Desdemona's remarkable, if temporary, recovery from asphyxiation is the most counterfactual thing in the play. Winters Tale follow-up
Roughly contemporary with the pier table, it was also made in New York City, although by whom has not been determined.
Ultimately, the only recognition Railton received was to see the bloodstained Union Jack he had used as a pall for temporary burials lowered over the coffin of the Unknown Warrior in the Abbey.
His many references to the Kingdom recorded in the Gospels must be seen against this historical background and contemporary context.
A 1960s ranch calls for a contemporary garden with a sculptural plant, such as a Japanese maple or contorted filbert.
He rubbished most of the novels written by contemporary writers.
Instead I argued that such ultimate questions are not answerable, at least by anyone in our contemporary conversation.
If the less perfect ophidians, or snakes, which now abound on the earth had taken the lead in those ancient days among the land reptiles, and the Deinosaurians had been contemporary with Man, there can be no doubt that the progressionist would have seized upon this fact with unfeigned satisfaction as confirmatory of his views. The Antiquity of Man
Mucus produced by the plant provides temporary and effective protection from petroleum damage.
But she also said that Michael and her American home were only temporary shelters because her real world is the home that she built with her husband in Hong Kong.
To unwind, she delves into contemporary quilting - tying past to present, weaving emotions and demands into creations that present a physical reminder of a very rich, yet often troubling, cultural history.
This is Sara's first proper job - she usually does temporary work just for the money.
Contemporary accounts attest to his courage and determination.
The grandeur is tempered by contemporary touches: sofas are vibrant velvet and walls are decked with modern artworks. Times, Sunday Times
The generals have promise to a point(appoint) a civilian as temperately (temporary) prime minister within two weeks and to hold elections in October of next year.
In the last few years London has seen a variety of operatic styles in contemporary opera.
He was in the mainstream of British contemporary music.
Flashbangs produced an incredibly bright light—approximately two million candela, which even with eyes closed would cause a bleaching of the rhodopsin, the visual purple in the eye, creating the spots and temporary blindness most people have experienced and referred to as the flashbulb effect. State of the Union
They serve as an important contemporary counterpoint to the cases below that are devoted to Africa's long history of agriculture, metallurgy, and ceramic production.
Owenson's status as a professional woman writer was constantly abused by contemporary male reviewers, who savagely attacked everything she wrote.
Cadet_ (_during his first term at Osborne -- where he has been told always to salute his superior officers of both services -- meeting some "temporary" subalterns who disregard his salute_). Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 1, 1916
Their work has produced, however, extraordinary discoveries, including a marble odeum, or small theater, of Roman Imperial date and a contemporary bath complex, both of which have no parallels at any other site in Egypt. The Elusive Tomb of Alexander
Hymen blew his torch out, put it into the cupboard for use on a future day, and exchanged his garish saffron-coloured robe for decent temporary mourning. The Newcomes
Contemporary dance artists Forecast will be performing their new show Ready at Lancaster University's Nuffield Theatre on Tuesday.
Then we are in some windowless corridors, then a temporary radio studio with a large man with orange trousers and an orange scarf. Times, Sunday Times
You could draw a line of descent from that cheeky 17th-century image straight to the saucy postcards of contemporary Blackpool. Times, Sunday Times
When a main element is dependence on a unilaterally declared temporary cease-fire by one of the key violent actors on the scene – which has not been defeated and which can rescind the cease-fire at any time – how can it be termed a “success”, nevermind a “victory”? Matthew Yglesias » “Winning” The War
I shall take four different examples from contemporary literature to illustrate my point.
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It is this which he takes as the key to an understanding of contemporary society, and of culture itself.
However ‘temporary’ these sanctions are supposed to be, the history of such measures is that they tend to metamorphose into something far more long-lasting.
They just reached a temporary agreement.
Gravity was measured using a LaCoste-Romberg model G gravimeter, and readings were referenced to a BGS temporary base station located at Corrie.
No consensus has been achieved among scholars on the questions concerning the fundamental reorientation and periodization of China's contemporary diplomacy.
Contemporary law classified married and under-aged women as non-persons, their identities being subsumed under that of their husband or father.
He writhed at the memory, revolted with himself for that temporary weakness.
The bridge was erected as a temporary measure .
You might want to consider temporary work until you decide what you want to do.
Contemporary African cinema has much to offer in its vitality and freshness.
Bittersweet is this journey to the wooden boatyards of Maine and the glorious work of ‘contemporary genius’ Joel White as he undertook what he knew would be his last wooden boat project.
He's bringing contemporary works to Los Angeles, including Christopher Wheeldon's 2006 "DGV," originally created for the Royal Ballet; a new piece, "Epimetheus," by Russell Ducker, from Britain, a company member; and "Solea," a pas de deux for Mr. Corella and his sister created by the flamenco dancer María Pagés, and. Debra Levine: Ballet's Angel Corella Looks Ahead ... and Back
In the United States a most dramatic contemporary example of this process is the abortion issue.
His job here is only temporary.
He had a particular interest in works by contemporary artists and was a pioneer in the development of artist-in-residence programs.
It radiates a Goth passion, a combination of lust and cruelness: the metal rounded quarter of an egg shaped, lead-hued metal in contrast to the blood-red transparent glass within which beats the cold-heart of a contemporary vixen. Archive 2009-02-01
The coopers walk round the barrel knocking down the temporary iron hoops.
We call it Tudor revival with a twist because it recalls traditional homes in early Seattle neighborhoods, but is contemporary in the way it opens to a multifunctional garden landscape.
Contemporary Prairie du Chien sites without wild rice indicate the spatially restricted nature of rice exploitation.
With the help of a temporary plastic binder substance, the materials are easy to form, cut, and merge into complex shapes.
The Japanese government, Roosevelt, and some Japan officers in the State Department all proposed abandoning the search for a comprehensive agreement in favor of negotiating a temporary agreement, what the diplomats called a modus vivendi from the Latin, a way of living. Interpretations of American History
Temporary fences can be electrified by connecting to a mains boundary fence.
Historical novels can introduce children to how people lived in other ages, even if told with contemporary sensibilities in mind.
Temporary facilities have been in place since the former service area building was razed to the ground last October.
It will also mean the diversion of two major traffic arteries over temporary roadways for three years.
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My parents know what I do, and whilst not thrilled, are resigned enough not to nag me and trust that this is a temporary situation.
It appears that Rasheed has a history of criticising the Maldivan state religion in his writing - it is a legal requirement for citizens of the Maldives to be Muslims - and he has since written to Amnesty International to request help in seeking temporary asylum. New Humanist Blog
The problem has been attributed to temporary traffic lights being set up in the area when the nearby permanent traffic lights were not disconnected and synchronised.
Amnesia can be caused by damage to areas of the brain that are vital for memory processing. Unlike a temporary episode of memory loss (transient global amnesia), amnestic syndrome can be permanent.
“He’s behaved like a perfect peeg!” she said gruffly, pronouncing the word cochon as though she referred to Joan of Arc’s contemporary, Bishop Cauchon. Within a Budding Grove
The values of privacy and the values of home are closely interwoven, especially in contemporary middle-class culture.
Water sells for a high premium, electricity is a memory, and a transistor radio is the only contact to anyone else outside their temporary shelter.
There's a shabby chic feel, alongside some contemporary touches. Times, Sunday Times
Don't worry, his depression is only temporary - it'll soon pass.
A simple still life, then, but one that was clearly intended to exemplify the contemporary crisis in agriculture.
Given that the Picts practiced a form of matrilineal succession according to contemporary writers such as Bede see article on Pictish matriliny, it seems surprising that so few royal female names were recorded. Pictish female names
“Lych” was the Old English word for corpse — hence the roofed-over lych gate outside most churches, for the temporary resting of the bier (and its bearers) on the way into the graveyard. The Moor
We veer between a rivetingly fresh reinvention of a myth and some clunkier contemporary confrontation and despair. Times, Sunday Times
Give people exactly what they remember a genre is all about, add a smidgeon of irony/contemporary cultural reference to taste, count the money.
The ants set up temporary camps, called bivouacs, and don't always venture forth to eat on a given day. Ars Technica
When the crops fail, as they inevitably do, the temporary king is sacrificed so a new king can be anointed. Times, Sunday Times
At the bottom of Chinese pacificism is the willingness to put up with temporary losses and bide one's time.
What follows are seven creepy experiments—thought experiments, really—that show how contemporary science might advance if it were to toss away the moral compass that guides it.
There are no contemporary estimates of how rapidly and how far literacy spread; nor is it possible for us to quantify it with the data provided by largely innumerate contemporaries.

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