Transitory Phase The new machines introduced at an office products show here represent a technologically transitory phase that could be of use today to some companies.

Many types of equipment are, or will soon, undergo a transitory phase as they are replaced.

Baden-Powell considered sexual desire a transitory phase in adolescence, and he was obsessed with self-abuse.

What was supposed to be a transitory phase in their lives is beginning to take on an awful feeling of permanency.

Still, Mr. Thach was not specific today about what type of transitory phase Hanoi would accept.

The cortex at first papillate, however this is a fugacious or transitory phase.

Therefore in southern Scandinavia the Federmesser may represent a brief transitory phase between the Hamburgian and the Brommean.

I wondered if it was a transitory phase -the severe depression that sometimes follows a schizophrenic outburst - or something more insidious: the beginning of the end.

Politically Costamagna was highly conservative and saw fascism as a transitory phase that existed only for the imposition of corporatism.

"This could be a transitory phase, common to most ellipticals, that lasts only 100 million to a billion years," Canalizo said.