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- noun a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
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Examples
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Here they hastily organized what they called a Provisional
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His boss, Lord Dorchester, said, "No you're not, you're going to make it Kingston:" They set up what they called the Provisional Capital, a place called York.
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On motion of Mr. Heaton, the word Provisional was stricken out, and the report as amended, was adopted.
Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of North-Carolina, at Its Session 1868 1868 1868
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The organisation split along these lines in 1969, and the group focused on defence and armed struggle against the British became known as the Provisional IRA (PIRA).
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Out of that day's events, which were caused in part they say by the unwillingness of the official IRA men to protect them from attack, was born the organisation that came to be known as the Provisional IRA.
From the archive, 1 February 1972: Derry's Bloody Sunday 2012
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Why was there 540 out of 1291 votes forced to vote Provisional, that is 41% not counted within 24 hours of closing the polls?
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Then he established what was called the Provisional Government which was headed by a group of three men who were called Consuls.
A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. Clayton Edwards
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Hence began the rebellion led by Louis Riel, who, with his followers, seized Fort Garry, with all its stores of arms, guns, provisions, dominated the adjacent village of Winnipeg, and established what was called a Provisional Government.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure Various 1909
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It is interesting to note that he held to the very end of his life that he derived his powers solely from the Last Edicts, and in nowise from his compact with the Nanking Republic which had instituted the so-called Provisional Constitution.
The Fight for the Republic in China Bertram Lenox Simpson 1903
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EFSA was therefore asked by the European Commission to assess current levels of exposure to lead, through both food and other sources, and to determine whether the existing guidance level for protecting public health, known as the Provisional Tolerable Weekly Intake (PTWI), was still appropriate.
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