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Example sentences for "provisional government"

  • But when Lamartine, mounting the tribune, cast aside her claims, and announced that the moment had arrived for proclaiming a provisional government and a republic, she was hustled and pushed aside by the crowd.

  • The deputies were met to make a temporary or provisional government, qualified to accept or to refuse the hard terms of peace offered by the Prussians.

  • Lamartine was not a great man, but it was lucky for France, and for all Europe, that at this crisis he succeeded in establishing a provisional government, and that he was placed at its head.

  • On December 12, they seized Navy Island in Niagara River, established a provisional government, and issued paper money.

  • Fremont set up a provisional government, placing himself at the head.

  • The King established a provisional government in their place, which prolonged the crisis.

  • The Bourbon sympathizers in the north at once seized the town of Seo d'Urgel, and set up a provisional government.

  • First council to organize a provisional government.

  • First public attempt to organize a provisional government.

  • White denies the right of the settlers to organize a provisional government.

  • It sought to enlist the services of officials who had served under the Provisional Government and of Generals of the old army.

  • But the motion for a provisional government prevailed (Feb.

  • The Venetians set up a provisional government under Daniele Manin, their leader in the insurrection.

  • The extreme democrats in Tuscany got the upper hand, and set up a provisional government.

  • After a brief discussion, leave was given to bring in the bill, and to amend the act of last session, appointing a provisional government.

  • Meanwhile, October 5, there was established at Lisbon a provisional government composed of nine ministers and presided over by the scholar and litterateur, Theophile Braga.

  • This committee, the same which carried on the whole movement from the beginning, has constituted itself as a provisional government, under the dictatorship of Garibaldi.

  • Gambetta proclaimed the republic; and a provisional government of national defense was at once formed, with General Trochu for president and Jules Favre for vice-president.

  • The army and navy assisted in deposing Manoel and setting up a provisional government, with Theophile Braga as provisional president.

  • On March 27 the Danish forces appeared before Hadersleben; and thereupon the Schleswig-Holstein Estates declared that the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein was no longer free, and formed a Provisional Government.

  • Hogendorp was placed at the head of a provisional government in the name of William of Orange.

  • A provisional government, headed by Hiesz and Muralt, and a fresh election, insured tranquillity.

  • Dr Severo Alonso took refuge in Chilean territory; and Colonel Pando formed a provisional government.

  • The Bohemians immediately established a provisional government consisting of thirty "directors," ten of whom were chosen by each of the estates.

  • It was decided that a Polish prince should be chosen as sovereign, and that meanwhile a provisional government, composed of twenty men belonging to the various parties, should be established.

  • Disappointed by the inaction of Congress, the Wyandots took matters into their own hands, and set up a provisional government.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    asking them; but before; can give; did not know where; gentleman commoner; give credit; grammar schools; great regret; many sections; military career; much nearer; pastry flour; provisional army; provisional constitution; provisional government; provisional governor; provisional order; sharply defined; sixteen inches; sixty guns; spake unto; sulphurous acid; then gave; though always; will teach; would understand