How To Use Provincial In A Sentence
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The Early Devonian saw a decline to 20 genera, with a slow return by the end of the Pragian, a tectonically active phase marked by global sea level drawdowns, and provinciality.
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The term "strategic" came up again earlier this year, when Ontario's provincial government set up a committee to debate a proposed merger between London Stock Exchange Group PLC and TMX Group Inc., operator of Canada's flagship Toronto Stock Exchange.
Canada Turns Wary Eye to Foreign Bids
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Whenever I go to London I feel like a provincial.
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During this period, the Ontario Board of Censors was known to be the most liberal of all the provincial boards, and O.J. Silverthorne was the most respected film censor in Canada.
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Murder, rape, road rage, dacoities and rampant acts of terrorism have become an everyday affair in all the provincial capitals including the federal capital.
Whether A Dictator Or Democrat: Please Explain
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The calced Augustinians also made their elections -- but not so quickly that we could avoid sending to them to remind them not to allow the disturbances of other times to occur in their chapter -- by having made them beforehand through their devotion to the outgoing provincial, who managed the succession for another as worthy as he.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
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Power has been handed over to provincial and regional assemblies.
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Old dandies with creaking joints tottered along Piccadilly to their certain doom; young clerks in the city, explaining that they wished to attend their aunt's funeral, crowded the omnibuses for Kensington and were seen no more; while my mother tells me that excursion trains from the country were arriving at the principal stations throughout the day, bearing huge loads of provincial inamorati.
The War of the Wenuses
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Growing up bilingual in English and German, Hobsbawm picked up three or four other languages along the way (he reproves monoglot historians for their provincialism).
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We know of young people who have been uprooted from their homes and placed in provincial centres where they are used as fodder in the great experiment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Blackmore and Oler are scheduled to appear in provincial court in Creston on Jan. 21.
Canadian polygamist leaders charged; reaction mixed
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These include the Government's proposal that an extra sub-clause be added to the chapter on provincial legislation in an effort to toughen laws in that area.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The show presents its monumental architecture, its military might, the way it controlled and administered its dominions through provincial satrapies and the network of roads that traversed its vast distances.
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This system of dyarchy was abolished by the Government of India Act, which gave the provincial assemblies full responsibility for government.
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The Ontario government, backed by other provincial governments, argued against the lower court rulings, saying the Metis existed as a community only after European settlers arrived in Canada.
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Augustine was a local boy who made good, a provincial from the southern edge of Fourth-Century Roman Africa, vain and enslaved to a fierce mother.
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This week, at a meeting attended by government ministers, provincial governors, traditional chiefs, health experts, the commander of the Zimbabwe's defence forces, diplomats and the media, the government announced what it called a nationwide blitz to control, cure and eliminate the disease.
Caroline Gluck: A National Blitz to Control Cholera in Zimbabwe
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Years ago we were more provincial even than now as, for instance, a certain Englishman, who wrote, while living in a small French town in 1813 these barbarians make fun of me everywhere just because I am properly dressed and speak the language of a human being.
The Yankee Myth
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For much of the war, the city had somehow managed a to retain something of the air of a French provincial town.
Times, Sunday Times
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Responsibilities for protecting Canada's biodiversity fall on the shoulders of both the provincial, territorial and federal governments.
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In our own time such words as papoose, sachem, tepee, wigwam and wampum have begun to drop out of everyday use; 11 at an earlier period the language sloughed off ocelot, manitee, calumet, supawn, samp and quahaug, or began to degrade them to the estate of provincialisms.
Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms
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It will also lose a $900,000 provincial grant that buffered the effect of dropping enrolment on a new provincial funding formula.
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The other half of the provincial priesthood was his, with, in addition, all the priesthood of the great cities such as Keijo, Fusan, Songdo, Pyen-Yang, Chenampo, and
Chapter 15
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The storm of comments has forced the provincial government to delay releasing the study's final guidelines while it sorts through and incorporates the comments into the document.
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At present the provincial council is headed by a Shia governor.
Times, Sunday Times
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They're becoming more serious as the provincials and Western Championship get closer.
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While a provincial assemblyman, he enrolled at Tunghai University in Taichung and graduated in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in political science.
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Like Bush, he is widely regarded as a philistine and intellectually limited man, whose pomposity and sense of self-importance are exceeded only by his provincialism.
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DETAINING the next president of the United States for three hours in what an eyewitness called a "malodorous" small room at an airport in the provincial Russian city of Perm looks, in retrospect, to have been a pretty bad idea.
Robert Amsterdam
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The plight of native reserves has long been known in various departments at the federal and provincial levels of government.
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Jakarta's instructions are implemented with great reluctance by provincial civilian and military leaders, who have not changed their old ways.
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At the start of last year's Spar hockey interprovincial, Tsoanelo Pholo had just made the national side.
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In my opinion, it was not intended that the provincial court judge strictly apply the rules of evidence.
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At present the provincial council is headed by a Shia governor.
Times, Sunday Times
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After a conventional rural schooling, he went on to secondary school in the provincial capital.
DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
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It is really just a large provincial city with fancy shops and restaurants.
The Sun
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Canada is a federal system whose powers are formally and sometimes contentiously divided between the national and provincial governments.
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With it went the whole structure of provincial, local, and municipal government.
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Take, for instance, 'The North Will Rise Again' from the new 'Grotesque' album, a song widely misconstrued as just another provincialist rant:
New Musical Express
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The boys' baseball team will be competing at the 12-team provincials June 5-7 at Reston.
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The activities at parish, classical, and provincial level would be co-ordinated by a national synod and by Parliament.
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At the end of 2001, the provincial environment ministry issued four orders against the city of Hamilton for allowing discharges into the Red Hill Creek.
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He started out as a boy treble and later, after his voice broke, joined Ontario's provincial youth choir.
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The run has been extended in London after a sell-out tour of eight provincial theatres.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lakeshore processes displayed through the formation of numerous bars, spits and tombolos within the lakes of this park are tentatively assigned provincial significance.
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In a provincial war office, a young woman, Eve, placidly attacks her work (she is a coder), her days enlivened by the gossip of her female colleagues and the joshing of the Big Bad Wolves, a couple of lippy sergeants.
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He also directed, presented and acted in many provincial tours and repertory seasons.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the spring of 1848 the radical press, political clubs, and the National Guard bubbled with activity in Paris and provincial cities as elections under universal manhood suffrage to the Constituent Assembly approached.
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China has delayed indefinitely its national ‘action plan’ on climate change, which was due to be released on Monday after exhaustive consultations among ministries in Beijing and provincial and local governments.
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Three other provincial capitals are under threat.
Times, Sunday Times
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He plans his escape from the provincial small-minded perceptions of the immediate community.
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But then people stopped wearing dunces-caps in the towns because it came to be seen as a sign of a provincial, a peasant.
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Over the generations, men who saw themselves as metropolitan sophisticates traveled to America and were suddenly confronted with their own provinciality.
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A Roman Catholic hospital in Kumamoto, a provincial city in southern Japan, in December sought official approval of the system modelled on the “Babyklappe” in use in Germany.
Japan Approves First ‘Baby Hatch’ | Impact Lab
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Canada's provincial premiers and territorial leaders are united in a effort to create a national pharmacare program, financed by the federal government.
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This inability of a provincial court judge to put public safety above the comforts of the criminal is unacceptable.
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Just south of the provincial capital, the murky waters of the Golok River mark the border between Malaysia and Thailand.
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Winkleman is showing significant art, not formalist poetry or provincialist landscapes.
Hickey remarks vanish (revised)
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The campaign was launched nationally in Pretoria on March 14 and provincially at Uitenhage on May 8.
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Dozens of arts and culture groups have been dealt a devastating blow by the provincial government's cancellation of the Community Lottery Board Grant Program.
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By 1923, the Capuchin provincial asked Solanus to keep a notebook of special cases and reported healings related to his consultations.
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Former provincial safety MEC Leonard Ramatlakane is to be "convenor" in the run up to the launch of the party on December 16.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The provincial governments are not far behind in their slavish adherence to the OECD's dictums on how to run your government.
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It must be again said that we have not to think of "the pleasant place of all festivity," but of a few huts among the sand-banks, inhabited by Roman provincials, who mournfully recall their charred and ruined habitations by the Brenta and the Piave.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
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For decades this was a provincial city in both the literal and derogatory senses of the term.
Times, Sunday Times
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The unsigned edition fetched over ￡200 recently in a provincial sale.
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Their churches were supplied by able pastors; their univer - sities were adorned with learned and pious professors, such as Casaubon, Daiile, and others, whose praises are in all the reformed churches; their provincial, and national synods were regularly convened, and their people were well governed.
Sermons translated from the original French of the late Rev. James Saurin, pastor of the French church at the Hague
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He was a simple - looking lawyer's clerk, elevated to the extraordinary dignity of a provincial scrivener.
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A provincial housewife and a married doctor meet at a railway station and subsequently fall in love.
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The provincial election in Alberta is fast approaching with a November 22nd or 29th vote.
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Because distinctive provincialism of belemnites prevailed until the Barremian-Aptian, other factors such as temperature may have also played an important role.
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Why would a fledgeling band choose such an expensive provincial town?
Times, Sunday Times
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In the aftermath of defeat in the Seven Years War, Louis XV went as far as to commission projects for the abolition of the corvée and the re-establishment of provincial estates in a bid to restore public support.
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provincially controlled
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Strong uniformity in Permian ammonoid biostratigraphy and provincialism between Xinjiang and Pamir is suggested.
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A spokesman for the provincial seismological bureau told Xinhua more people were feared injured or dead.
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He had become a repetitious provincial topographer.
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He faced serious opposition over his land tax and provincial assembly proposals, but he conducted himself gracefully.
The Times Literary Supplement
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But, as I said, I was in amaze, and the next I knew was the pang of the entering steel as this clumsy provincial ran me through and charged forward, bull-like, till his hilt bruised my side and I was borne backward.
Chapter 11
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Zunyi Medical College (ZMC), a key medical college at the provincial level in Guizhou Province, is located in Zunyi, a historically, culturally and scenically celebrated city.
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Public Service Commission shall ensure provincial representation in national processes while simultaneously ensuring that there is full and direct accountability at provincial level for the implementation that takes place at that level*.
Building a United Nation
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We will further straighten out resource distribution among governments at and below the provincial level to better match their major responsibilities to major expenditures.
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It was aimed squarely at the cluster of key provincial and regional marginals that will decide the election.
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Recognizing his priest as one of their former acquaintances, or perhaps by his provincial dialect, they eagerly enlisted his services in ascertaining the result of their present expedition.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The provincial Department of Education is offering adult learners two different exam times this year.
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It's just that being patriotic seems too often to be the banner that's waved by provincialists.
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Imagine, then, that we are the guests of the charming wife of a successful counsel ( 'advocaat en procureur') -- Mr. Walraven, let us call him -- settled in a large and prosperous provincial town.
Dutch Life in Town and Country
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Dressed in women's attire and a nose-pin errantly positioned on one nostril, 38-year-old Shahzadi adjusts her 'dupatta' (scarf) over her head as she enters the office of Cantonment Board Clifton, a provincial government bureau that recently hired her.
Global Issues News Headlines
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Which role do you like playing most - a lawyer, a provincial assemblyman, a legislator or a commissioner?
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Prithee, thou brown-robed fellow, how looked he in a _sanbenito_ -- that tall, fierce, black-bearded Captain that your Provincial mentions here?
Sir Mortimer
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A pilot project in Zambezia province aims to decentralize and integrate management of donor and provincial funds.
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Early Permian lagenides do not exhibit marked provincialism, but there is evidence for paleolatitudinal control on assemblages.
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As provincial of his order, he addressed temperance meetings throughout Ireland.
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Provincial governments should be pressed to take an open-ended approach to the needs of children rather than to engage in long and costly court battles.
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According to local residents, said about 6:30 that evening, in the Helwan district provincial grid Elohim the club close to a wall of multi-storey residential building collapsed, causing casualties.
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If Canadians wanted to persecute their wolves, there was no need to ship them south; Canis lupus is sufficiently under siege in the "great white north," with provincial governments scapegoating wolves for everything from the precipitous decline of mountain caribou to the near-extinction of the Vancouver Island marmot.
Chris Genovali: The Death Cults Among Us
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the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials
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Most of the settlers arrived in Jalan Raja Uda in the 1920s and 1930s from Kwangchow, a sub-provincial city that is the capital of Guangdong province in southern China.
SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
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Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a wise elector, and a very severe juryman; he was still a man of pleasure.
Les Miserables
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The problem of any classically educated writer's falling in love with Greece was how to reconcile the provincial reality with the idealized images.
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Below them sit so-called provincial governors, in charge of smaller chunks of territory.
Times, Sunday Times
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The selectors will shortly be announcing a squad of 28 men and women for the provincials and a squad of 16 for the senior provincials.
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He built palaces and banqueting halls on the hill and held meetings of the other provincial kings every three years at which time they made laws and held festivals of music and sport.
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As the next provincial election must be called by May, I believe it's time for us to consider what the past terms of the NDP government have brought to this province.
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The losses eliminated the team from the provincials and finished their season earlier than they had expected.
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This tendency to repel every suggestion of inferiority is one of the surest signs of provincial habits; it is exactly the feeling with which the resident of the village resents what he calls the airs of the town, and that which the inland trader brings with him among those whom he terms the "dandies" of the sea-board.
Recollections of Europe
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It also gives us the opportunity to monitor players outside of the provincial competitions.
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The southern Cape's political strength is very much buttressed because the party's Provincial Leader is the mayor of George.
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He has gained provincial colours for athletics, cross-country, swimming, biathlon, triathlon, duathlon, cycling, gymnastics and tumbling.
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They are arguing that a provincial inquiry has no jurisdiction, because the RCMP is a federal institution.
Archive 2009-06-01
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Bengal was absorbed into the Mughul Empire in the 16th century, and Dhaka, the seat of a nawab (the representative of the emperor), gained some importance as a provincial center.
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Will this cost the provincial and federal treasuries?
Globe and Mail
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Some time ago the Canadian Council of Grocery Distributors made a presentation to a gathering of Provincial, Territorial and Federal Ministers of Agriculture.
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He said although the provincial Treasury would love to save every cent possible, traffic policing, emergency vehicles and police visibility during this time of the year were a priority.
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We know of young people who have been uprooted from their homes and placed in provincial centres where they are used as fodder in the great experiment.
Times, Sunday Times
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The provincial government, meanwhile, says it is undertaking the changes as part of its effort to streamline the health care system.
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Jeremy Styles, 34, was the house manager for a provincial theatre for ten years.
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I think there is a real need to get away from all this regional provincialism - especially in a country where literature itself is so much at risk.
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Maybe the glimpse (s) of suburban Manchester he got in the early 1950s were quite enough to feed his fantasies of that “provincial” might-have-been life.
Ballardian » “Enthusiasm for the mysterious emissaries of pulp”: an interview with David Britton (the Savoy interviews, part 2a)
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Nemadzivhanani said the former Venda and Gazankulu areas, which were hardest hit, have been neglected in the last six years with provincial road upgrading and rural development programmes tending to concentrate around the greater Pietersburg and former Lebowa homeland areas.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The Basra provincial council should not let itself remain swept up in a spurious frenzy.
Times, Sunday Times
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BISHO (ECN Thursday 28 August 1997) - The imminent R2-million pay rise for Bisho MPLs and MECs, who daily bemoan the tight provincial budget and face financial crises in most departments, has got the politicians to stop talking for once.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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School boards outside Toronto are also edging toward budgeting in defiance of provincial laws.
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It makes her look like a rather dowdy and unhappy provincial lady mayoress.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thereafter there will be debate about the new appointments among the cabinet and provincial premiers.
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Thus, a framework now exists for the full mobility and interprovincial recognition of psychologists.
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But who were the proprietaries of these bones, or what bodies these ashes made up, were a question above antiquarism; not to be resolved by man, nor easily perhaps by spirits, except we consult the provincial guardians, or tutelary observators.
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
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Throughout the Mekong delta, local officials who disdained Tu Duc nevertheless quit the provincial administration rather than submit to alien rule.
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Can we hope that the new administration will past strict new laws against journalists from provincial newspapers attempting to gussy up jiveass holiday features by using theoretical concepts of which they have not even the slightest grasp?
THE GURGLING COD
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The parochial provincialism of mindless Eurocentrism has distorted the history of civilization as originating in Greece while summing up India's contribution in a line or two.
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I'm a Mason yet I hold no provincial or grand rank.
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Other factors contributed to the debacle, such as political infighting between the Red Cross and federal and provincial agencies.
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Only drawback (as with all things constitutional in this country) is that "your kilometrage may vary" as usual -- bi provincial / territorial jurisdiction, as well as bi the numbers (typically "where numbers warrant" -- which could be interesting), etc.
Congratulations to all my gay friends
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The Jilin provincial government came to the con-clusion that Wang Wei should be held entirely responsible," says one.
Who's to Blame?
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Certainly the fellow was provincial, curt, even brutal in his despisal of diplomacy.
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns
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The geographical apartness of people was a contributing factor in the provincialism of medieval thought.
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Still, in provincial garrison towns they cut something of a figure and many officers could find wives from well-off families.
A Social History of Modern Spain
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Provincial assemblies meet once a year.
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If that all sounds like success, there is another, more amazing story which Provincial can now tell.
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He proposed instead to abolish the direct election of provincial governors, thus undermining the constitution and doing away with the country's political foundation of federalism.
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There too mashers, fake swells, or bohemians were to be found, whilst going up to London often provided the opportunity for provincial businessmen to indulge in activities more anonymously than they could achieve nearer home.
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At the head of each is a "vali" or provincial governor, in whose council a seat is given to the spiritual head of each of the non-Moslem communities.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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History is silent as to the exact date when the term "bushi" came into use, but from a very early era its Japanese equivalent, "monono-fu," was applied to the guards of the sovereign's palace, and when great provincial magnates began, about the tenth century, to support a number of armed retainers, these gradually came to be distinguished as bushi.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
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How, then, do we now celebrate Provincial's success as the 1990s begin?
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The Code does not apply to federal government workers in federally regulated industries such as banking, telecommunications and interprovincial transportation; they are covered by federal safety codes.
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The PCB has also announced the dissolution of provincial cricket associations that were formed on an experimental basis in 2003.
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Provincial budgets must be tabled in legislatures within 15 days of the national Budget being tabled.
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After the unbanning of our movement, he was elected as our Deputy Provincial Secretary in the then PWV Region (now known as Gauteng Province) in 1992.
ANC-GAUTENG PROVINCE TRIBUTE TO HIGH COMMISSIONER BAVUMILE VILAKAZI
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While artists working in cities had their own studios, provincial painters were usually itinerants and sometimes lived with the families who patronized them.
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They encompass the provincial governments, national utilities and huge swaths of the land administration.
Times, Sunday Times
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ULUNDI, May 20 (Reuter) - Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini did not arrive at an official presentation of the new KwaZulu-Natal provincial cabinet and premier Frank Mdlalose in Ulundi on Friday because he was "indisposed".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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We had prominent citizens and influential groups cable the Prime Minister and the provincial Premier.
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Prodi is too much politician, provincial and elitist to be taken seriously and Bhagwati is -- paradoxically -- evangelical and boring as he defends globalization.
David E.
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Another aspect of the IDZ linked to the provincial agricultural economy was beneficiating natural products in the textile sector like wool, mohair, sisal and hemp.
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The contents were largely ‘taboo’ subjects with many hitherto unknown exposés that named hundreds of local, provincial and national officials and up to a thousand peasants.
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That it is evident by the Scriptures that Jesus Christ hath on earth many particular visible churches: (whether churches congregational, presbyterial, provincial, or national, needs not here be determined.) "Unto the churches of Galatia," Gal. i.
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
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The Elections Finance Act prohibits most forms of political advertising for the initial week of a provincial election campaign, the day before voting day and day of the vote.
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The primary assemblies, composed of the tenth of the general population, nominated the local _list of communal candidates_; electoral colleges, also nominated by them, selected from the _communal list_ the superior list of provincial candidates and from the _provincial list_, the list of national candidates.
History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814
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Last August I was summoned to our provincial headquarters where I was given a 14-page communication from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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Police representatives insisted that it was the responsibility of escorts to ensure they knew and abided by municipal, provincial and federal laws, ordinances and bylaws.
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For much of the war, the city had somehow managed a to retain something of the air of a French provincial town.
Times, Sunday Times
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That always looks good during the lead-up to a provincial election.
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The Central Propaganda Department and the Provincial Party Propaganda Department have issued orders to forbid you from reporting this.
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Perhaps this is only another example of the asinine and anserous dunderheadedness of these crass provincials.
Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891
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Authorities in the provincial capital, also called Kerman, convened an emergency meeting to oversee rescue operations.
Latimes.com - News
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Prior to this, we had six game competitions, the interprovincial championship and the European Cup, and there was little room for that to happen.
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The moment the provincial boundary was crossed the washboard highway flattened into smooth, perfectly maintained blacktop.
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China Telecom is a conglomeration of many largely independent provincial companies.
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English masterpieces of immaculate and moderately good prose extracts and dramatic passages, published with notes for the use of the native student, at weltering in a hotchpot and hurley-burley of arbitrarily distorted and very vulgarised cockneydoms and purely London provincialities, which must be of necessity to him as casting pearls before a swine!
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
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Instrumentation Technician: Valid Alberta or Interprovincial Journeyman Instrumentation Technician certification is required.
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Bennett joins fellow Old Selbornian Reece Basson next week for the interprovincials in Pietermaritzburg.
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They realised the necessity of compelling barbarians and provincials alike to respect the elementary rights of person and property; Theodoric the Ostrogoth and Gundobad the Burgundian were the authors of new criminal codes, in the one case mainly, in the other partially, derived from Roman jurisprudence.
Medieval Europe
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City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.
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When the Yunnan branch arrived in Kunming in June 1950, it was joined by more than thirty local cadres and scholars, including a vice president of the Yunnan provincial government.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
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Her story is sharply evocative of Italian provincial life.
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Exceptions as noted in the interprovincial, import and export sections may prevail over this requirement.
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due to this assumption transit service are almost inexistant on week-end and night in french provincial cities and even Paris suburb…and well usage pattern of transit has considerably evolve since the 60′ and tax employer make no sense anymore, when so many sector benefit of good transit system.
A transport tax would get us moving « Stephen Rees's blog
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In terms of cost, virtually every provincial drug plan is under immense strain due to growing demand and the rapid introduction of new and costly prescription drugs.
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The myth is that Dutch forces have essentially shunned combat, emphasizing make-nice reconstruction and redevelopment projects in Uruzgan, for which Holland has primary responsibility, concentrating their efforts in the less dangerous areas – earlier "pacified" by Americans, especially in the basin around Tarin Kowt, the provincial capital.
Afstan: New Dutch approach
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When the purchaser presents himself, they withdraw these bags from the pressure to which they are subject; the merchant, with a careless air, gives a slight push with his fist to the bottom of the crown, to raise it up, smooths the front upon his knee, and presents to your eyes an object at once whimsically fantastical, which recalls confusedly to your memory those fabulous head-dresses favored by box-keepers, aunts of opera dancers, or duennas of provincial theaters.
Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02
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Eastern Cape Tender Board as co-respondents, the bus group again requested the court to restrict the provincial government from terminating the contract between them.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Cazaril approached his first assigned duty, quietly investigating the probity of the provincial justiciar, with trepidation.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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Last month he was among several provincial judges whose government salary cheques were not honoured, apparently due to a technical problem.
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He was a Persian provincial governor, whose powers had few limits provided he stayed loyal.
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Here then, plain upon this apparent arbitrarily levised trifle, this petty provincial money-token, this poor bawbee, that is, this coin not only of the very humblest order, but proverbially sordid at that, we find clearly set down, long generations ago, the whole [Page: 99] four-fold analysis and synthesis of civic life we have been above labouring for.
Civics: as Applied Sociology
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In general, the provincial circuit is a far tougher cookie than its metropolitan counterpart.
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Pakistan's cash transfer programme previously gave all national and provincial assembly members a budget and let them select the beneficiaries.
Times, Sunday Times
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Acadians brought with them provincial cooking styles from France.
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The provincial finals, which are drawing nigh, will also throw more light on the road ahead.
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Provinces can and frequently do impose greater trade barriers on interprovincial trade than exist on international trade.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Canadian University Restricting Graphic Posters That Compare Abortion to Genocide
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Scots may want to come over all Runrig bestriding mighty crags, but they are really Arab Straps, moaning about damp and impotence in provincial housing schemes.
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Endorse the overture by director XXX from provincial TB Institute.
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A by-law is a kind of municipal statute - it is municipal legislation within the powers granted by the provincial Legislature.
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Zwelithini, who was expected to be present to meet the new provincial cabinet was "indisposed" and could not attend the meeting.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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One has to realize that real power lies with a prime minister and a provincial premier.
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You need the reader to understand at a glance that some character is supposed to be an intimidating badass, or a provincial boor, or a smarmy selfish jerk, or a naive idealist, or an uptight bluenose, the quickest way to do this is by cuing the reader by invoking some stereotype complex that includes these traits.
The Wisdom of Clowns
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Another aspect of the de-democratization policy of the provincial government concerns elections.
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- Unconstitutionally provincialise the national government powers over water, forestry and land;
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The whole point of great artists is to challenge those certainties that it is the whole point of provincial towns to embody.
Times, Sunday Times
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That was made abundantly clear at a colourful congress in the provincial capital, Jayapura, last month.
