Sentence examples for proviso which from inspiring English sources

"Bra and panties on," she specifies primly - a proviso which the gangstas accept with remarkable gallantry.

But "with one proviso, which is that it won't be [him] alone who will do it", she says.

Disney's Touchstone television later contributed two and a half million more, for a total budget of seven million, with the proviso — which Lynch grudgingly accepted — that he shoot extra footage to be used as a "closed ending".

Thus in 1846 he opposed the Wilmot Proviso, which would have prohibited the extension of slavery into the U.S. territories, and he supported the Compromise of 1850, which attempted to maintain a balance of Senate seats between slave and free states.

It took another 10 years of heavy politicking, and mobilisation of support from the Organisation of African Unity, before President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing recognised the advantage of conceding, with the important proviso, which Gouled was canny enough to accept, that the French maintain nearly 4,000 troops at the Djibouti naval base.

For American scholar Jerry Cooney, it's this proviso, which was also unprecedented and unequalled in all the Spanish Empire, that prompted Paraguayan exceptionalism.

Yet in doing so, the government conceded provisos which suggested caution on its part.

There was a proviso, however, which later became the subject of much debate and acrimony: just as I would help him succeed, so he would work properly with me, accepting that while leader, I would lead, so to speak.

Hobbes adds one proviso here, which may be called the "sincerity clause," namely that one violates the law of nature, or acts without right, when one acts in a way that one does not sincerely believe contributes to one's preservation (1.10n).

But this basic rule comes with many provisos, without which it would be all too easy for bad guys to get off.

That is at least part of the lure of the annual Proviso West Holiday Tournament, which has become a legend as the hottest ticket in town this time of year.