ADJECTIVE
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for the time being
designated him to act as consul protempore
he is the president pro tem
ADVERB
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for the time being; temporarily
accepting pro tem that hypothesis consistent with the facts
How To Use pro tem In A Sentence
- Phil is taking over from David on a pro tem basis.
- A pro tem committee was formed from existing members.
- A pro tem committee was formed from existing members.
- accepting pro tem that hypothesis consistent with the facts
- The most irreconcilable part of this transcript, however, is that The Speaker Pro Tempore referred to Ms. Schmidt as a “gentlelady”! Think Progress » VIDEO: Schmidt’s Shame
- Phil is taking over from David on a pro tem basis.
- Call it rather a sort of beggarly day-dreaming, during which the mind of the dreamer furnishes for itself nothing but laziness, and a little mawkish sensibility; while the whole materiel and imagery of the doze is supplied ab extra by a sort of mental camera obscura manufactured at the printing office, which pro tempore fixes, reflects, and transmits the moving phantasms of one mans delirium, so as to people the barrenness of a hundred other brains afflicted with the same trance or suspension of all common sense and all definite purpose. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, III footnote 1 « Unknowing
- He has served the city of Trenton as mayor pro tem , councilman, director of the Economic Development Corporation, and as commissioner for the Zoning Board of Appeals.
- So far, the endowment insurance has been able to transfer, the other nearly grows pro tempore to transfer.
- * An pro tempore illa bona erant, flendo petere etiam quod noxie daretur; indignari acriter non subjectis hominibus, liberis et majoribus, hisque a quibus genitus est; multisque praeterea prudentioribus, non ad nutum voluntatis obtemperantibus, feriendo nocere niti, quantum potest, quia non obeditur imperiis quibus perniciose obediretur? Pneumatologia