Sentence examples for rather provisional from inspiring English sources

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.

This recourse to the notion of intelligent design will doubtless upset the atheists out there, but it's worth recalling that scientific theories aren't descriptive of any reality at all, but rather provisional rules of thumb for a universe which exhibits assumed regularities.

They are not conclusions or findings but, rather, provisional proposals for the reasons behind the set of observations at hand.

(Mipham 1977: 81f) The identity of ultimate truth at issue here, according to Mipham, is that of absolute ultimate (rnam grangs min pa'i don dam ste), rather than provisional ultimate.

As Blake describes it, there has always been something provisional, rather than planned, about his working life.

Some argue that the Americans would set the region a better model for democracy if they handed over to an elected, rather than selected, provisional government.

One option to such a pathway is to optimize rather than maximize provisional services through a trade-off of water and energy.

A poll worker gave her a slip to get a regular ballot, but she knew submitting a regular ballot, rather than a provisional ballot, would be illegal under Wisconsin law.

There might be better categorisations; our grouping is provisional rather than strategic.

When the data become accessible to others, it becomes clear that scientific authorship is provisional rather than authoritative.

Those officials could use information to require voters to cast provisional ballots rather than regular ones.