7 sentences with 'provisional'
Example sentences and phrases with the word provisional and other words derived from it.
• « A diverse group of liberals and socialists formed a provisional government, declared France a new republic and began to draw up plans for general elections for representatives of a new government. »
• « After this event, power was divided. The Duma (Russia's representative assembly) appointed a provisional government that enacted important legal reforms but had no power to relieve the Russian army at the front or to provide food for the starving demonstrators. Moreover, the Duma itself represented the interests and beliefs of the educated middle classes, still only a small portion of the Russian population as a whole. »
• « There was a stalemate between the provisional government, which had no police force to enforce its will, and the soviets, which could control their own areas but lacked the ability to bring the majority of the population (who wanted, in Lenin's words, "peace, land and bread") to their side. »
• « There is no such thing as certainty, and all truth is provisional. This is further complicated by the fact that refutations are not definitive either, and that a statement considered wrong can, in time, be rehabilitated as right. »
• « After long deliberation, the councillors accepted the petition and elected this provisional governmental board: president: Cornelio Saavedra; members: Juan José Castelli, Manuel Belgrano, Miguel de Azcuénaga, Manuel Alberti, Domingo Matheu and Juan Larrea; secretaries: Juan José Paso and Mariano Moreno. »
• « The appointment of the new director, on a provisional basis, fell to General Rondeau, but as he was in command of the Army of the North, it was decided that he should be replaced on an interim basis by Álvarez Thomas. »
• « In April 1821, General Martín Rodríguez, who had held this post on a provisional basis since September of the previous year, was appointed Governor of Buenos Aires. »