What is "temporary state"

Usage examples of "temporary state".

The war to end all wars had been won, but somewhere in the back of a bunch of collective minds must have been the thought that there was a need for a large standing Army for the next war to end all wars, and I had the pessimistic thought that the current reduction in force was just a temporary state of affairs.

For the first time all day, he was able to relax, though he knew this was a temporary state of peace.

Judging from the unaccustomed cleanliness of the bare legs and feet extending from the tartan, someone had taken advantage of his temporary state of unconsciousness the night before to administer a bath.

But this should be a temporary state, and the reversal may already be in process, since our universe is finite and falls within the calculated gravitational radius.

He looked rather surprised at being manhandled so, and I felt it was best to try and keep him in that temporary state of confusion.

Whether that apparent decision constituted a permanent or temporary state of affairs he had no way of knowing—.

Whether that apparent decision constituted a permanent or temporary state of affairs he had no way of knowing-and he was not about to tarry in the vicinity to find out.

When he finished, he was in a temporary state of grace that would burn away with the coming of the dawn, but it was even sweeter for being so tenuous and brief.

What Dax had done then was to establish a temporary state of dominance by one component of her shared consciousness over the other.

Still, during that temporary state institutions could be set up whose value would be so great that no later Caliph could overthrow them.

She wondered if the temporary state of nonexistence through which she was passing in any way resembled what the Sleeper experienced during his long journey toward wakefulness.