Province
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337 examples of Province in a sentence
In 2008, not a single woman cast a vote in 31 polling stations in Punjab, Pakistan’s most liberal
province.
Russian recognition was widely seen as retaliation for Western recognition of Kosovo (population two million), the breakaway
province
of Serbia, earlier last year.
The success of these groups, led by Plan International, has forced governments to toughen laws against child marriage, and – as in Pakistan’s Sindh
province
– beef up enforcement and policing.
The Pashtuns have their own party, the National Awami Party, which governs the newly named
province
of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, on the border with Afghanistan.
Nonetheless, they have shown great restraint in northern Iraq since Saddam’s fall, contenting themselves with building up their autonomous
province
both economically and politically – to the point that it is independent in all but name, with a strong and experienced army in the Peshmerga militia.
In September, the reservoirs in China’s Henan
province
dried up, leaving crops to shrivel and forcing some residents to drink from puddles on the ground.
In the east, there was a strong sense of being Bengali, and a sizeable Hindu minority continued to live in the
province.
So, when Pakistan’s military leaders finally allowed elections in late December 1970, East Pakistan voted overwhelmingly for the Bengali-nationalist Awami League, which won 167 of 169 seats in the
province.
NEW YORK – The assassination of Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab
province
in Pakistan and an outspoken critic of religious extremism, has focused attention on his country’s draconian blasphemy law.
Big Brother, Tibet, and the Sichuan EarthquakeShanghai – Tight media control of the unrest in Tibet has been followed by what, to some, looks like far more open coverage of the devastating earthquake in Sichuan
province.
Fillon is a soft-spoken, reserved, and deeply devout Roman Catholic who lives in a small castle in his native
province
of Sarthe.
China’s Aborted OpennessChina’s state-run Xinhua news agency recently reported on a government investigation into a string of forced sterilizations and abortions in the village of Linyi, Shandong
province.
Now, officials in Shanghai and Guangzhou (the capital of Guangdong province, where Shenzhen is located) have added motivation to pursue new growth- and productivity-enhancing policies, including upgraded initiatives to attract entrepreneurship and human capital.g
Paradoxically, the boldest course would be for the government to stop managing these revenues and turn over a large fraction of these funds directly to the people, as is done in the US state of Alaska and the Canadian
province
of Alberta.
A map of a
province
was so detailed that it was the size of an entire city.
The map of the empire occupied an entire
province.
Moreover, China’s already restless Muslim-majority
province
of Xinjiang, which borders on Afghanistan, might be dangerously affected by a Taliban takeover there, or by the country’s dismemberment.
China is especially keen on combating drug trafficking, as Badakhshan, the Afghan
province
bordering on Xinjiang, has become the main transit route for Afghan opium.
But I am afraid that the problematic strain within Islam is not the
province
of a few extremists.
India’s “Connect Central Asia policy,” and its efforts to build a North-South Transit Corridor, would benefit development in Central Asia, a region of major concern to China, because it abuts the restless Chinese
province
of Xinjiang.
From its refusal to condemn North Korea’s unprovoked sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan and shelling of South Korean islands, to its claims of sovereignty over various Japanese, Vietnamese, Malay, and Filipino archipelagos and newly conjured claims on India’s
province
of Arunachal Pradesh, China has revealed a neo-imperial swagger.
Its resolve to counter the Islamists’ growing influence has been weakened by two unfortunate events: the recent assassination of Salman Tasser, the governor of Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province, and the deaths last month of two young men allegedly at the hands of an American official named Raymond Davis.
Led by Senior Minister Amin Fahim from the
province
of Sindh, all cabinet members submitted their resignations to the prime minister on February 4.On the same day, the Central Executive Committee of the Pakistan People’s Party “authorized the prime minister to reappoint a smaller cabinet with fewer ministers enjoying reputation of integrity, competence, and efficiency.”
Iran also has direct security and social concerns in neighboring Afghanistan, where the Taliban, upon assuming power in 1996, carried out selective killings of Shia, including a massacre of more than 5,000 in Bamyan
province.
So far, China has formally referred to Taiwan, Tibet, and Xinjiang
province
as “core interests,” a phrase that connotes an assertion of national sovereignty and territorial integrity that will brook no compromise.
The government succumbed and removed the chief minister and his cabinet, placing the troubled
province
under the care of the provincial governor.
Creativity, curiosity, and emotional intelligence will always be the
province
of people.
Whether they end up in Idlib
province
or somewhere else, they will still be threatened by Syrian government bombs.
Structural change is viewed largely as the
province
of the private sector, and hence not as a key part of long-term policy thinking.
In the cities of Foshan and Shenzhen in Guangdong province, the private sector and local governments are dealing relatively effectively with such issues.
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