Sentence examples for given the province from inspiring English sources

Virtually all decisions of any import to people's everyday lives are made at the provincial level, and more so in Quebec than elsewhere, thanks to a series of ad hoc deals that have given the province some degree of autonomy over such typical mainstays of national policy as immigration and even international affairs.

Given the province's parliamentary system, that gives an edge to the PQ.

Given the province's bitter history, the "extreme autonomy" that Serbia claimed to offer was never going to be credible.

Lithuania was given the province of Samogitia, with the port of Palanga, but the city of Klaipėda was left to the Order.

Given the province and its three major districts saw a massive influx of both foreign and domestic fighters due to the relatively calm winter prior to the brigade's arrival, its company-sized and platoon-sized elements found themselves in combat against anti-Coalition forces almost daily from the start of March 2010 until its relief.

Azerbaijan wants to give the province some autonomy; Armenia claims it as its own territory.

Instead, Karzai gave the province to an unknown: General Naeem Baloch, who used to work for the Afghan intelligence service.

He learned to speak French passably, declared them a nation and gave the province a special seat at international gatherings.

Woodward said the devolution of policing and justice powers to Stormont was the "last part of the jigsaw" to give the province the prosperous future it deserves.

Aceh was granted the right to use Islamic law more than a decade ago in a bid to give the province more autonomy and end a long-running separatist insurgency.

But the British gave the province to India, and the two countries have since fought at least three wars over it.