transitorily

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Man has not been able to maintain this position: for the ideal is realized but transitorily.

From The Life of Jesus by Renan, Ernest

Variations caused by the factors mentioned act only transitorily, and the pressure shortly returns to normal.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall

I make account to be in London, transitorily, about the end of August.

From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by Donne, John

It is so difficult for human beings to live together; nay, it is so difficult for them to associate, however transitorily, and even under the most favourable conditions, without some shadow of mutual offence. 

From The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by Gissing, George

A corresponding germinal condition, the two-layered gastrula, occurs transitorily in the embryological history of all the other Metazoa, from the lowest Cnidaria and Vermes up to man.

From Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August