Sentence examples for of provincial origin from inspiring English sources

Gambetta, a young Parisian lawyer of provincial origin, had been elected to the Corps Législatif in 1869 and had already made his mark through his energy and eloquence.

Then Roman civitas was extended to provincials, but not en masse; granting Roman citizenship to soldiers and aristocrats of provincial origin hastened the pace of Romanization in the western provinces.

The city is modern without being snobby, and is unembarrassed of its provincial origins – many residents of Ankara, including this writer, still have a village somewhere and maintain ties with their rural roots.

This perhaps reflects a provincial origin of Grosseteste's works, but may also reflect a conservative preference to engage with the ideas of the great thinkers of the recent and more remote Latin and Greek traditions.

A plaque listing the number of Korean War "martyrs" by provincial origin, in a commemorative exhibit at Beijing's Military Museum, lists total Chinese war deaths at 171,669 -- a significant toll, if well under Western estimates.

She is also the victim of snobbery for her provincial origins.

But the countryside has felt progressively despised and neglected by the Damascus elite, which helps to explain the provincial origins of the current uprising.Where Mr Ajami draws successfully on Syrian history and literature, Stephen Starr relies on old-fashioned local reporting.

Michael Billington commended a dazzling piece of high camp eager to conceal provincial origins.

But like many of Britain's lenders with humble provincial origins, in recent years the West Brom developed an urge to break out of its traditional business model and overreached itself.

It is a great baggy monster of a love letter to its author's provincial origins, ranging all the way from ice age Cheshire to the invention of the eccles cake.

Thus the conversation has come back to Shakespeare's provincial origins.