"This is not a foreign province; this is our country," Mr. Medvedev said at a meeting in Dagestan.
Several dissident dioceses, like Quincy, Ill., San Joaquin, Calif., and Pittsburgh, are taking steps to align themselves with a foreign province, should the Episcopal bishops refuse the terms of the directive, said Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh, who leads a network of conservatives seeking alternative oversight.
How often has this sad phrase drifted into our consciousness from a news report, reminding us of the risks being taken in our name by young men and women posted to some dusty foreign province?
Oilmen expect supply to tighten by the end of this year: output may decline in mature fields; American shale-oil production may slip back; and there is always a risk of turmoil in some foreign oil province.
He's seventy-years-old, spends his time on his California farm, and he's been out of the deal flow, as they say on Wall Street, for about a decade; he knows California budget policy like the back of his hand, but what intuition or insight does he bring to the most dangerous territories in American foreign policy Anbar Province, the Logar Valley, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas?
As the Afghan forces assume broader control of the province, foreign forces will pull out.
There was also a group of free associates, distinguished men of science from the provinces, and foreign associates, eminent international figures in the field.
Most were foreign or from other provinces, and to recruit local allies they relied on a campaign of violence and intimidation.
Unlike the east and south of China, which straddle major international trading lanes, the north-eastern provinces' two foreign neighbours are North Korea and the sparsely populated far east of Russia and it is not far from the equally desolate expanse of Mongolia.
Roderick MacFarquhar, a China expert at Harvard who wrote an introduction to the new book, said it had given him a new appreciation of Mr. Zhao's central role in devising economic strategies, including some, like promoting foreign trade in coastal provinces, that he had urged on Mr. Deng, rather than the other way around.
