Example collocations logo

Provincial in sentence

286 examples of Provincial in a sentence

I was born in a provincial town in Bulgaria in the late 1960’s, when, like the rest of Eastern Europe, the country was under Communist rule.
Determined to outbid Gorbachev as a reformer, he persuaded liberals to overcome their distrust of his provincial manners.
Moreover, many of Hu’s protégés who are provincial party secretaries have compromised records in areas ranging from public health to environmental protection.
Germany was more highly educated than other countries, on average, and the most enthusiastic Nazis included schoolteachers, engineers, and doctors, as well as provincial small businessmen, white-collar workers, and farmers.
The CCP, it was argued, wanted someone more like the bureaucratic outgoing leader, Hu Jintao, rather than a charismatic successor like, say, the former Chongqing provincial governor Bo Xilai.
In 1993, central-government leaders enjoyed relatively limited powers: they did not control the money supply and had difficulty firing provincial governors or relocating top generals.
As Xi rose through the Communist Party ranks, he forged close military ties as a reservist, assuming leadership of a provincial garrison and serving as a key aide to a defense minister.
During his term, from 2004 to 2014, Karzai exchanged the most senior positions in the national government, as well as provincial governments, for political support, and often granted impunity to corrupt officials.
The 16th Party Congress should in turn elect the 16th Central Committee, Party Congress representatives should be elected by each provincial party congress, and so on.
To the west, in Darfur, protesters burned government buildings in the provincial capital of Nyala while the siege in Nairobi played out.
While several provincial satraps have been cut down to size, new, aspiring ones have garnered significant support.
To the three constitutionally established branches of government (executive, legislative, and judicial), a fourth power has been added: the provincial governors, the "barons of peronismo ."
At times charming, at times eccentric, and often behaving like bandits, these provincial chieftains share several attributes: high rates of poverty in their provinces, comfortable lifestyles for themselves, and a disdain for democratic institutions.
China has also effectively used competition among individuals, companies, cities, and provincial bureaucracies to ensure that all stakeholders are contributing to productivity and GDP growth.
If unions bid up wages too high, a devaluation could fix the problem; if provincial governments spent a little too much, a quick round of peso printing would save the day.
As the budget situation deteriorated, transfers from Buenos Aires to provincial governments became a matter for day-to-day political bargaining.
Provincial finances will finally have to be cleaned up.
But, while Argentina’s government clearly needs to borrow, it could go too far – not least because provincial governments are also eager to borrow.
Apart from the central government, about half of Argentina’s 24 provinces (counting Buenos Aires) are actively seeking to borrow abroad; some estimates suggest that imminent provincial borrowing could amount to another $5 billion of external debt.
This trend would be less worrisome if provincial finances were sound and growth prospects robust.
Given the key role that provincial excesses played in the crisis from which the country just escaped (a role similar to the one they played in the worst financial panic of the nineteenth century, the Baring Crisis of 1890), none of this should be taken lightly.
And national and provincial governments should introduce policy changes from the top.
Moreover, the non-Taliban and non-Pashtun forces are now stronger, more organized, and better prepared than in 1996 to resist any advance on Kabul, having been empowered by provincial autonomy or by the offices they still hold in the Afghan federal government.
France’s German MirrorBERLIN – Berlin’s Tegel Airport, which still greets most of the passengers arriving in the capital of Europe’s leading economic power, is outdated and provincial.
That’s right: while almost every other European country (including Germany) is struggling to form a government, or has settled for an unstable ruling coalition, the provincial strongmenin Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary can guarantee stability.
Moreover, the power of vested interests that oppose reform – state-owned enterprises, provincial governments, and the military, for example – has yet to be broken.
The votes of conservative provincial Turks now count.
A seasoned and autocratically inclined politician, Papen thought that, once Hitler was in power, he could control the Nazi leader, whom Papen regarded as a provincial blowhard.
They lined up the dead on Alamdaar Street, which runs through the city’s Shia community, and refused to bury them until the government dismissed inept and corrupt local officials, led by a local nawab who spent more time abroad or in Islamabad than in the provincial capital.
The government succumbed and removed the chief minister and his cabinet, placing the troubled province under the care of the provincial governor.
BackNext