Sentence examples for Provisional from inspiring English sources
The word 'Provisional' is correct and commonly used in written English
It can be used as an adjective to describe something that is temporary, preliminary, or subject to change. Example: The company's provisional financial statements showed promising results for the quarter, but the CEO warned that they were subject to finalization by the auditors.
adjective
Temporary, but with the intention of eventually becoming permanent or being replaced by a permanent equivalent
Coach James Hird didn't know if his men could last the distance, given 13 of them hadn't played a single pre-season match while serving provisional suspensions.
Iranian media outlets, before and after the sultan's visit, have claimed that he has received provisional US approval for his proposals.
The provisional leadership that replaced him engineered constitutional changes to enhance parliamentary powers at the expense of the executive.
His initial profile helped police to identify a provisional pool of 60 people they want to question.
We just felt we needed to file for provisional measures because this was our last chance to get reinstated.
Although, according to provisional calculations, exports of goods and services were slightly up at the beginning of 2015 compared with the fourth quarter of 2014, imports recorded a much stronger increase".
It is now beyond doubt that by the early 1990s the British state had agents littered all over the most effective paramilitary movement in the western world – the Provisional IRA.
At the time, the RUC was facing the enmity of not only the Provisional IRA but also extreme loyalists, who were burning police officers out of their homes because the force had been asked to physically defend the new Anglo-Irish Secretariat building on the outskirts of east Belfast.
He decided that Sinn Fein, the political label used by the Provisional IRA, should be engaged in the political process.
But he remained hostile to the Provisional IRA, joining forces in the Lords in 1999 with an old opponent, the former Ulster Unionist leader James (now Lord) Molyneaux, to oppose the immunity given, under the Good Friday agreement, to IRA killers after the graves of vanished victims of IRA violence were revealed.
In the early years of the conflict, many Protestant working-class communities were decimated as people fled the threat of the Provisional IRA and the dreadnoughts of their local loyalist paramilitaries.
