Examples of pro tempore in a Sentence
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Yesterday’s event was attended by North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper and Phil Berger, North Carolina Senate president pro tempore.
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Daniel Cote, Robb Report, 18 June 2024
Another seat soon to be vacant is in East Elmhurst and Corona and has been held for 32 years by Jeff Aubry, the man who ran the chamber as speaker pro tempore.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 16 June 2024
Previous experience: Leach served in the Senate from 2019 to 2022 and was the president pro tempore before being defeated by Wadsack in the Republican primary in 2022.
—Reagan Priest, The Arizona Republic, 28 May 2024
Several people present at internal meetings told me that Johnson had brought up convoluted arguments about the constitutional role of the Senate president pro tempore to object—regretfully—that empowering an interim Speaker would be unconstitutional.
—David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2024
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Daniel Cote, Robb Report, 18 June 2024
Another seat soon to be vacant is in East Elmhurst and Corona and has been held for 32 years by Jeff Aubry, the man who ran the chamber as speaker pro tempore.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 16 June 2024
Previous experience: Leach served in the Senate from 2019 to 2022 and was the president pro tempore before being defeated by Wadsack in the Republican primary in 2022.
—Reagan Priest, The Arizona Republic, 28 May 2024
Several people present at internal meetings told me that Johnson had brought up convoluted arguments about the constitutional role of the Senate president pro tempore to object—regretfully—that empowering an interim Speaker would be unconstitutional.
—David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2024
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pro tempore
adverb
pro tem·po·re
prō-ˈtem-pə-rē 
: for the present
president pro tempore
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