The pair resolved to put the past behind them; it was a temporary reprieve.

At least in his family's view, the subpoena was a temporary reprieve.

But a temporary reprieve does not go nearly far enough.

If you didn't have a death sentence, he decided, then prison was, at best, only a temporary reprieve from life, for two reasons.

This was only a temporary reprieve for the church.

The lightning stopped half an hour later, with the coming of night, but I suspected it was a temporary reprieve.

"You may consider it a temporary reprieve from the governor," I said, "but nothing more."

All this borrowing can only be treated as a temporary reprieve to Europe's problems.

By May 2008 a temporary reprieve was granted, but the park's future is still uncertain for the long-term.

She knew her plants had gained them only a temporary reprieve.