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Temporary; not permanent. Tentative, contingent, preliminary. A provisional civil service appointment is a temporary position that fills a vacancy until a test can be properly administered and statutory requirements can be fulfilled to make a permanent appointment. |
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How do concepts such as strategic essentialism, the politics of location, and strategic provisionality help us to think through these issues? They reveal not only how women's writing drew on his texts as a means of self-legitimation, but also show how the very provisionality or instability of these later constructions of self and world lead us back to ambiguities in the Spenserian oeuvre. One of the beauties of learning is that it admits its provisionality, its imperfections. |
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