What is "provisionals"

Usage examples of "provisionals".

In all cases where the Provisionals claimed responsibility, the target was counter-productive, leaving them looking very bad indeed.

I've had four generals in my time at Downing Street telling me it's all about over, that the Provisionals are beaten, that they're finished.

He'd been married on his twentieth birthday when he was acting as bodyguard to a member of the Brigade staff, at a time when relations between the divided Provisionals and officials were at an all-time low.

Along the wall to the right of the door and near the bar were a group of youths, some of them volunteers in the Provisionals, some couriers and some look-outs.

But the differences between the people at street level and then protectors, as the Provisionals saw themselves, were growing.

When he had been voted into the number one position in the Provisionals by his colleagues it was because they knew they could guarantee he would pursue a tough, ruthless campaign.

Frank had been with the Provisionals since the split with the Officials, the "Stickies" as they called them, but this was the first time he had been in such elite company.

None knew of the importance of Billy Downs amongst the Provisionals and so news of the army outrage at the house would travel fast through the community.

She went home that night believing her information alone had led the Provisionals to Harry.

It was some eight feet across, with slots for two poles, one at each end, so that it could be carried high in procession on the marches the Provisionals organized.

Another of the reasons he had left the Provisionals -- but he would return to the fold.

But the American connections to the Provisionals all run through Sinn Fein, the Proves' political wing.

I've some heavy reservations about the way the Provisionals have been handling some aspects of the present campaign.

The'fact that theBelfast Telegraph had a phone call claiming responsibility for the Provisionals is going to make the Provos look very bad indeed.

It was the Provisionals, a splinter of the Officials born in the violence of '69, calling the shots in Belfast.