Sentence examples for provisional way from inspiring English sources
AS Byatt, novelist Derrida examines how we construct meaning, the provisional way in which our constructions depend upon other constructions.
As he tinkered, Griffith became a prime exemplar of "maker culture" — a community of sophisticated do-it-yourselfers who view hardware in the same provisional way that computer hackers view software, and who believe that making, modifying, and repairing things can be an antidote to throwaway consumerism.
He coined the term "differance" ( différance in French, combining the meanings of difference and deferral) to characterise these aspects of understanding, and proposed that differance is the ur-phenomenon lying at the heart of language and thought, at work in all meaningful activities in a necessarily elusive and provisional way.
This approach exemplifies the active metabolite concept in a provisional way.
They are theories for which a tremendous amount of evidence has been amassed, but like all theories, they are accepted in a provisional way.
Philosophy maintains metaphysics' goal of producing a synoptic view of human life, but it does so in a merely provisional way, which is open to empirical research that genuinely follows the contours of history.
Stories of malfeasance, starting with Adam, Eve and the serpent, have always been far better, if more provisional, ways than spotlessness of soul to stir an audience to attention and meditation.
Still, Zuckerman has spent a lifetime assembling the core components — money, influence, allies, properties, positions, women — and it has accrued to him, in a provisional kind of way.
The race was provisional in many ways: the congressional seat that either Lamb or Saccone will occupy will evaporate come next year, following a ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that said that the state's congressional districts had been drawn to unfairly favor Republicans.
State and local elections officials must not handle provisional voting in a way that frustrates this core democratic ideal.
In an Aug. 19 editorial, you say that "state and local election officials must not handle provisional voting in a way that frustrates this core democratic ideal" of ensuring that all votes can be cast and will be counted.
