Sentence examples for provincial background from inspiring English sources

In particular, he felt kinship with the former prime minister because "we both had a provincial background".

Few Justices in recent history have arrived at the Supreme Court from a more provincial background than Anthony Kennedy.

Mr. Montañez, whose real name was Fernando Borrego, came from a humble, provincial background to become a musical hit three years ago.

With his provincial background and devout nature, he cut an odd figure among the sophisticated Romantic composers who were his contemporaries.

She came, as any reader of hers would guess, from a conventional middle class provincial background - that world or tea-parties, servants, tennis clubs, rectories, manor houses and public schools that dominates her books.

Modi, who comes from a humble provincial background and once sold tea to make a living, repeatedly attacked the dynastic rule of the Gandhis and was able to tap into widespread hunger for jobs and development, while offering a message of aspiration and ambition to the young electorate.

Above all, these writers seemed to find it impossible to grasp how a novelist of Greene's acuity, seriousness and fame could have a relationship with a woman of Cloetta's provincial, unartistic background.

The electoral success and energetic policy of large investment and rapid development of Quebec's Liberals drove the separatist Parti Québécois into the background of provincial politics, though the Bourassa government was at the same time strongly provincial and determined to campaign energetically for Quebec's interests.

Although not provincial, it was a background typical of many of those who succeeded in the expanding scene of the Fifties and Sixties.

These developments led to the provincialisation of the Central Committee; for example, more and more CC members have a background in provincial party work.

One is that the class solidarity of those who created and sustained the revolution, many of whom came from provincial lower-middle-class backgrounds, has dissipated.