In 1965, Dong Xoai was a district town situation at a road junction which connected Inter-Inter-Provisional Road 13, National Highway 1 and Highway 14.
Recent provisional government figures for national road casualties showed that the number of pedal cyclists killed or seriously injured rose 4% in the period April-June 2013 compared with the total for the same period in 2012.
This was Nigeria, and I remember happily whizzing around the country roads with no provisional license.
Under the internationally backed (but now badly tattered) "road map" peace plan, a provisional Palestinian state is supposed to be formed in the two territories next year, with its permanent borders to be negotiated later.
"The first lesson we learn on the road," Iyer has written, "is how provisional and provincial are the things we imagine to be universal".
All the same, a starter marriage sounds suspiciously like a starter apartment: a provisional arrangement, a necessary first step on the road to a more gratifying marital habitation — one with a top-of-the-line kitchen and a river view.
Thus, when individuals are asked early in young adulthood about their family size intentions, one can assume that most of them are aware of the potential pitfalls on the road to completed fertility and of the provisional nature of these intentions.
He suggested that issuing even "provisional" or "nonresident" licenses would have a huge impact on regulating the road while differentiating documented residents from the undocumented, a distinction that Beck believes would still be important.
Under the road map, new Palestinian elections are due before the establishment of a "provisional" Palestinian state next year.
My first home in the theatre was the now vanished Hampstead theatre in Swiss Cottage, and homely it was, in its rather provisional state: two storeys of glorious portable building with the tumult of the Finchley Road pulsing past.
