Sentence examples for a provisional one from inspiring English sources

Filing a poor patent, even a provisional one (more on this later), can end up costing so much that sometimes it's worse than filing no patent at all.

It is a useful exercise, but still a provisional one until he makes the speech for which the nation waits most eagerly.

The prospect of negotiations -- for a Palestinian state, even a provisional one, as President Bush is reported to be ready to propose -- seemed far away.

The infantry company and its two platoons, including a provisional one of Marines who had not attended the introductory course, were hit especially hard by injuries.

However, despite a wealth of insights drawn from an extensive consultation with some of the key players in this area, we decided that we had insufficient material to achieve our interim objective of developing a research agenda, even a provisional one.

Tibetan authors define their position in some cases a provisional one adopted as a mere interpretative tool for dealing with Dharmakīrti's texts—on the basis of models associated with Indian Buddhist schools.

Armed with a provisional one-year license, the new teacher spends a year of monitored classroom instruction before earning a renewable five-year state teaching license.

The result was Contador's second successive title, after the Vuelta de Murcia,  since winning his appeal to the Royal Spanish Cycling Federation against a provisional one-year doping ban in February.

That was the initial impression, but a highly provisional one.

In a general way, it would not be likely that a final alignment would be drawn up at this stage based on the provisional one envisaged from the first examination of the map.

"We're trying to lay out the history of the Modern while recognizing that it's a provisional history, one that has not been fully written and one that will continue to change and evolve".