I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a provincial city (= in a part of the country that is not near the capital )
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There have been protests in the capital and in provincial cities.
a provincial town (= one that is not near the capital )
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Many provincial towns were transformed by the coming of the railway.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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administration
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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.
assembly
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This provided for the election by all landowners over the age of twenty-five of representatives to local and provincial assemblies .
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The three are fighting over control of the provincial assemblies , which will be important in the run-up to the election.
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The delegates sit in a provincial assembly and implement directives from both regional and national capitals.
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Press and provincial assemblies hastened to proclaim solidarity with the Tsar.
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Preliminary results for elections to a total of 483 seats in the four provincial assemblies were announced on Oct. 29.
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The three provincial assemblies together constitute the Territorial Congress.
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Mr Ishaq wants all the provincial assemblies dissolved, in order to create a constitutional crisis that will force a general election.
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Some of Mr Sharif's infuriated followers then kidnapped the secretary of the provincial assembly , Chaudry Habibullah.
authority
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The provincial authorities were to turn over more revenue to the state while receiving reduced subsidies, in order to centralize resources.
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Coverage of the Henan scandal also points the finger at inaction by the provincial authorities .
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The plenum had been delayed for several months, allegedly because of divisions over economic policy between the central and provincial authorities .
capital
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His son trucks the tangerines and apples to the provincial capital , and even down into Henan province.
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Each month the district officer spent a whole day writing a full report to the political secretary in the provincial capital .
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Coventry was a provincial capital , one of the half-dozen largest provincial cities and the fourth richest.
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Meanwhile, a curfew was imposed in Pristina, the provincial capital .
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In 1949, for example, the provincial capital of Urumqi had few Han.
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The river Aver continues westward past the provincial capital at Averheim and finally flows into the Reik at Nuln.
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This thriving group included some of the old provincial capitals such as Bristol, Newcastle and Norwich.
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On June 26, 16 people belonging to one family were massacred in the Punjab provincial capital , Lahore.
centres
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Similar student protests were held on the same day in provincial centres .
city
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But the following month saw a renewed wave of strikes paralyse St Petersburg, Moscow and many provincial cities .
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In Britain, the old tradition of private patronage in the great provincial cities is reviving - but not fast enough.
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Coventry was a provincial capital, one of the half-dozen largest provincial cities and the fourth richest.
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In the first place, since little research had taken place outside London, we chose to investigate a provincial city .
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The leading provincial cities were tiny in comparison with the capital.
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From that time to this Kiev has evolved, like Naples or Boston, into both a great and a provincial city .
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In Iasi, a provincial city in the north-east of the country, more than 70 lawyers and law students attended.
council
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The Council is associated with other local authorities represented on the national and provincial councils dealing with local authorities' services.
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His five provincial councils were to be appointed rather than indirectly elected and concerned primarily with intergovernmental relations.
election
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The Freedom party had already lost support last October and December in two provincial elections .
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Yet the premier, facing a provincial election that year, could scarcely halt the growing pressure for public, power.
government
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We drove up to the provincial government building in Xiangzhou, a few miles to the north.
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Elections to a lower house of parliament would be by proportional representation and an upper house would be appointed by provincial governments .
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The philanthropic family's largesse was echoed by surprise announcements from both the Federal and provincial governments .
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A reform of provincial government banking was also announced.
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The provincial government did not send a team to investigate until August 1.
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Some of the no-show gun owners were making a protest, and at least one provincial government has challenged the law.
governor
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The reforms were supported by President Carlos Saúl Menem, the other provincial governors and congressional deputies and senators.
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New commissars replaced the provincial governors .
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He was a Persian provincial governor , whose powers had few limits provided he stayed loyal.
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In a decree of October 1856 he strengthened the hand of provincial governors .
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Last week one provincial governor was blocked in his attempt to build a new road through the park.
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On the provincial commissions the provincial governor or his deputy would take the place of the Interior Ministry official.
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Other appointments A number of provincial governors were moved in August 1990.
level
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There is no provision for a regional or provincial level of local government.
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Only 42 new members were elected to the committee, mostly party or government officials from the central or provincial levels .
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Independent lateral contacts at provincial levels were discouraged.
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It should not be imagined that the tiny Party élite at either of these provincial levels could maintain a tight hold.
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Chief among these special functions was a governmental or administrative duty at either local or provincial level or possibly both.
newspaper
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The quality of achievement Two national newspaper mentions may be more important to your client than thirty provincial newspapers and magazines.
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The low price helped Notimex become the principal news source for many small provincial newspapers .
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Yakovlev, the head of Agitprop and one of the chief architects of the cut-back in provincial newspapers in January.
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It is also asking for air-time on radio and television, and for access to national and provincial newspapers and magazines.
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The national executive of the union called out on strike all its members on provincial newspapers .
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The defendants claimed that what they were doing was in furtherance of their dispute with the provincial newspapers .
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At the end of the war, provincial newspaper ownership took three forms.
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Others were part of a provincial newspaper group.
press
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The implications of concentration of provincial press ownership are greater when its geographical variation is taken into account.
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The idea of local radio fitted snugly with local ownership, like the provincial press .
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The reciprocal relationship between pamphlet and newspaper insertion was only one way in which reformers used both the London and provincial press .
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Numbers of novelists, poets, essayists and artists had early work printed by provincial presses .
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For the provincial press , any calculation is complicated by questions of market boundaries and different types of publication.
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In the provincial press , and especially the local weeklies, it is more difficult to believe that direct influence was rare.
town
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There were reports of demonstrations and lawlessness in some provincial towns .
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His provincial town of Flaxborough is a portrait of what might be any somewhat cut-off provincial town anywhere in Britain.
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There is growing evidence that white supremacist groups are renewing hate campaigns against Aborigines in some provincial towns .
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His provincial town of Flaxborough is a portrait of what might be any somewhat cut-off provincial town anywhere in Britain.
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Foremost among provincial towns were a handful of regional capitals with populations upwards of five or six thousand.
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In the provincial towns of San Miguel and Santa Ana, the markets were also occupied.
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Similar scenes were reported in provincial towns in the vicinity of military camps.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the provincial government of Quebec
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All things considered, the provincial circuit presents a hell of a challenge.
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In Britain, the old tradition of private patronage in the great provincial cities is reviving - but not fast enough.
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It constituted an even clearer expression of provincial mobilisation and disregard for parliamentary initiative and manoeuvre than 1833.
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It was a tentative document that merely asked for provincial legislation enabling municipalities to buy, sell, and distribute electric power.
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The provincial groups with papers in two or three towns were little different from the other independents.
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The reforms were supported by President Carlos Saúl Menem, the other provincial governors and congressional deputies and senators.
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The whole thing struck one as being very provincial .
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This provided for the election by all landowners over the age of twenty-five of representatives to local and provincial assemblies.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His request had been accepted without comment by the provincials concerned.
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Maybe I was blotting out my past, as provincials do, in my haste to get to where the action was.
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Nor were the strongest provincials, United and Associated, dominant in either the quality or the popular national market.
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Stormes was a representative of the Jesuit provincial , Father Edward Glynn.
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To his left sat Father Jim Stormes, a representative of the Jesuit provincial .
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Whatever the case, the provincial was encouraged.