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for the nonce

Temporarily; for the time being; for a single particular occasion. That will have to do for the nonce, but be sure to get a clearer answer by the end of the day. He fell over, being for the nonce incapable of maintaining an upright posture. The two parties passed a unilateral emergency bill, crafted for the nonce to manage the looming financial crisis.
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First, when a nonce word ended in a consonant it was generally perceived as having final stress, while when it ended in a vowel it was generally perceived as having penultimate stress.
In the cultural contexts of both The Night Listener and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, nonce narratives are inescapable--and sinister, probably for that very reason.
Step2 [U.sub.a] arbitrarily chooses a random nonce as H_[PW.sub.i] (instead of deriving H_[PW.sub.i]), and verifies if [B.sub.i]=h(H_[PW.sub.i] [dirct sum][C.sub.i][direct sum]h([ID.sub.s][parallel]H_[PW.sub.i])) holds or not.
The node signs both the nonce received and its measurement list with its private endorsement key for remote attestation.
* nonce plural of an adjective, etc, as a word (noun) in itself; eg, "There are not two aerys in this sentence," aery being an adjective treated as a noun;
Wood was picked up that evening, and claimed he had slept through the attack and was awoken by Hoather and Wiltshire saying "We've just battered a nonce."
nOnce the berries have formed, remove a few leaves from plants - this will help air and light get to the fruits and encourage them to ripen.
But rather than having a Manichean approach, we stepped up to the plate by launching our website MyTF1, and we became the first French media company to go digital," says TF1 Group CEO/chairman Nonce Paolini.
For his part, TF1 CEO Nonce Paolini said that Discovery Communications wasthe ideal partner that would help his firm enter its next phase of growth.
A MIDDLE-AGED music fan slashed open the face of a man he'd known for 35 years because he falsely branded him a "nonce".
Katherine Dunn, defending, said: "The victim called him a nonce and it had a significant impact on him, he became withdrawn and extremely upset.
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