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337 examples of Province in a sentence

Private fixed-capital investment in the province grew by 19.6%, compared to the 2.8% economy-wide figure.
According to China’s National Bureau of Statistics, the resource-rich province of Shanxi has suffered an economic slowdown, but the southwestern provinces of Chongqing and Guizhou have experienced vibrant growth.
There is Freeda, a Lady Health Worker in Baluchistan, Pakistan, who has supported the polio eradication program for more than 15 years across often-dangerous parts of the province.
Their allegiance is divided among the two competing governments, al-Qaeda, and the Islamic State (ISIS), which views the country as a province of its dwindling caliphate and an important refuge for members escaping the war in Syria and Iraq.
In normal times, the informal financial market helps SMEs to get by; but the recent woes of Wenzhou, a city in southern Zhejiang province renowned for its freewheeling private economy, have shown that the informal financial market can be very volatile and undependable.
In Quang Ngai province, some 70% of villages were destroyed.
Two civilian pilots were dispatched to fly over the province and check my calculations of the damage.
In Guangxi province, where some of the worst violence occurred, nearly 100,000 people were killed during July and August 1968.
For example, China still gets a free pass on human-rights abuses, from holding up to a million Muslims from Xinjiang province in internment camps to effectively kidnapping Interpol President Meng Hongwei.
Aceh province in Indonesia was previously largely closed to outsiders.
Though partly settled by the Good Friday Agreement a generation ago, Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party is re-opening it by insisting that the province, which is part of the UK, must not in any way be distinguished from, say, Wales or the Home Counties.
Last month, two Communist Party officials from the coal-rich Shanxi province were charged with corruption and abuse of power, signaling that Shanxi may well move to the forefront of President Xi Jinping’s quest to eliminate entrenched corruption in the Party’s ranks.
As Gao Qinrong, a former journalist from Shanxi, recently described the province, “It has coal; coal brought money; that brought corruption.”
Last month, when the governor of China’s Hubei province threatened a journalist and grabbed her recorder after she asked a question about a local scandal, journalists, lawyers, and academics used the Internet to object.
This March, I was in Chengdu, in Sichuan province, where many Tibetans live.
Nowhere are consequences of this struggle clearer than in the Himalayan foothills of the southwestern province of Yunnan.
All start on the great Tibetan Plateau and flow in parallel through the northwest corner of the province into Southeast Asia.
For example, China’s desire to prevent drug trafficking in its southern province of Yunnan means that its police and security forces are taking a keen interest in what happens in Myanmar, a country that is also of special interest to India.
One possibility is that it will take place province by province – the previously ungovernable state of Bihar being a prime example.
In desperation, village leaders in Anhui province initiated an experiment that returned land to peasants-a de facto privatization that violated official policy.
Indeed, the authorities in China’s Xinjiang province are charging that a prominent Uighur separatist that they captured had received terrorist training in Pakistan.
Unfortunately, the effectiveness of the pledges that will be made – particularly in ravaged lands like Somalia, northern Nigeria, and Iraq’s Anbar province – is entirely uncertain.
America’s Return to IraqDENVER – President Barack Obama’s decision to increase the number of American troops on the ground in Iraq, and to base them in Sunni-dominated Anbar province, has sparked wide discussion.
In 1998, Guangdong province alone received 26.5% of FDI while the entire West of China received 3%.
Disasters Discriminate – Our Response Should NotISTANBUL – When landslides devastated parts of Tajikistan’s Khatlon province in early 2009, the village of Baldzhuvan was better prepared than most.
Saudi Arabia, for its part, stands to gain from Iraq’s success against ISIS, a sworn enemy of the House of Saud, and from its help in calming Shia dissent in Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich eastern province.
And more than 20 million migrant workers reportedly lost their jobs in export-led Guangdong province.
A Hong Kong firm can contract out its production in Guangdong province to reap the same labor-savings benefits it would gain from investing in China.
That is what happened to Gul Muhammad, a 22-year-old husband and father of two from the Kohat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
In addition to Norway, it exists, in various forms, in Sweden, New Zealand, and the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
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