Sentence examples for provincial comes from inspiring English sources

From another point of view, the novel's plot is another variation of a conventional nineteenth-century theme: an innocent young provincial comes to seek his fortune in the capital, where he succumbs to corruption, and loses all traces of his former freshness and purity.

At first the provincials came predominantly from Spain and Narbonese Gaul, but later there were more Asians and Africans.

These meetings were conducted by the national and provincial COME coordinators, national and international consultants in consultation with the Provincial Minister of Health and Principal of the COME College.

The provincial decision comes almost two weeks after Canada's Supreme Court said that a proposed federal bill to change the definition of marriage nationwide is constitutional, clearing the way for the government to introduce the measure next month.

Last month, a minister from the provincial capital came to inspect the house.

Provincial America came to be less dependent upon subsistence agriculture and more on the cultivation and manufacture of products for the world market.

His "100-day whale-gull action plan" was approved by the government of Chubut, and provincial officials came out Tuesday in defence of it.

The blast on the outskirts of El Arish, northern Sinai's provincial capital, came amid a counterinsurgency operation by Egypt's military and the police in the volatile desert region.

He traveled to Israel in 1968, and while he admired the country's intellectual vitality, he found its culture "rather provincial" and came to dislike what he thought was its bellicose spirit.

The Canadian spotted owl has been in trouble since at least the mid-1990's, when the provincial government came up with a plan to protect it in 21 "management zones" occupying 472,000 acres.

Critics, meanwhile, argue that Donovan's international and domestic goalscoring and assist records are all well and good, but that his achievements are essentially provincial ones, coming as they did largely outside the footballing capitals of Europe.