Alex Zanardi

Your trip in this life is very provisional, but the best thing you can do in your life to live in the right way is to take every day as a great opportunity to do what you can and when you're as lucky as I have been in life in getting so much attention and exposure, you learn that you can move mountains with a very small effort.

Italian Driver

Priyamvada Natarajan

Scientific knowledge is, by its nature, provisional. This is due to the fact that as time goes on, with the invention of better instruments, more data and better data hone our understanding further. Social, cultural, economic, and political context are relevant to our understanding of how science works.

Indian Scientist

Walead Beshty

It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.

American Photographer

Jeff Denham

Whether we start with a provisional status and legal permanent residence... or we set up some other way to assimilate legally, you can't ever put in something that says, 'You can never become a citizen.' That's un-American.

American Politician

A. R. Ammons

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

American Poet

Ernst Mach

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.

Austrian Physicist

Michelle Dean

Great novels are maps of complication, leading nowhere in particular, taking stances only provisionally and obliquely, happy to be tangled and to lack as many answers as the people they seek to depict.

American Journalist

Francois Jacob

For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.

French Scientist

H. P. Lovecraft

In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.

American Novelist

Ben Bernanke

Of course, economic forecasts must be revised when new information arrives and are thus necessarily provisional.

American Public Servant

Referencing a plan or agreement that is not final and may be altered.

Subject to Change

Emphasizes the temporary nature of an arrangement before final decisions are made.

Temporary Status

Signals that the subject is pending and may not be relied upon as final.

Conveys Uncertainty

Used in legal and official contexts where a final decision or outcome is yet to be made.

Pre-Decision Phase

Marks the first actions or decisions that are subject to further review or change.

Initial Steps

Stresses that provisional status is contingent on certain terms being met or conditions changing.

Conditions Apply

 In addition to these historical breakthroughs, linguistic researchers recently proposed the provisional identification of a few of the manuscript's words. Could the letters beside these seven stars spell Tauran, a name for Taurus, a constellation that includes the seven stars called the Pleiades?

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 and then go through this whole process again -- make predictions, test them -- and as you do that over and over again, you will hone this idea. And if it gets good enough, it may be accepted by the scientific community, at least provisionally, as a good explanation of what's going on,

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 the Thirteen Colonies worked together through a provisional government called the Continental Congress. During the war in 1781, the Articles of Confederation were ratified as the first truly national government. But establishing a new nation would prove easier than running it.

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 "Hm, so who came to power?" "The Duma formed a provisional government, led by Alexander Kerensky, an incompetent bourgeois failure. He even launched another failed offensive in the war, where Russia had already lost so much, instead of ending it like the people wanted."

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 can be provisional. And you can drill, cut, nail, screw paint and replace, with a minimum of cost. But there was a third advantage that we got by doing this move that was unexpected. And that was that it freed up the perimeter of the auditorium in a most unusual way.

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 be provisional and you can drill cut nails screw paint and replace with a minimum of cost but there was a third advantage that we got by doing this move it was unexpected and that was that it freed up the perimeter of the auditorium

Building a theater that...

 So, it actually works. That's a high gross margin business. I like it. I actually did not want to answer this on the TED stage. OK, so these are provisional numbers, no pricing guarantee.

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 allows us to act. And it is necessary, no matter how fragile or how provisional our consensus, to be able to move forward. But the majority of the world neither benefits from capitalism

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 film processing drop-offs, peep-shows and necktie stores. Now these provisional structures have, in some cases, remained standing for the better part of a human lifetime.

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 The alleged “Provisional Government” declared Hawaii a Republic the following year. They proclaimed that Hawaiians couldn’t vote

Provisional

Something that is arranged or done for the time being and may change in the future.

Often appears as...

Relating to the official actions that are done before something is agreed or chosen definitely.

Often appears as...

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Temporary Status

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