Sentence examples for provincial down from inspiring English sources

More than 5,000 localities from provincial down to county level have opened offices in Beijing in recent years, spending some $2.5 billion annually on lobbying, according to China's media and fuelling corruption.Shanghai has prospered on Mr Chen's watch.

There is evidence that it re tains much of its civil power —from national and provincial down to factory level despite moves in the last year and a half to rebuild the Communist party.

In local administration, Muḥammad ʿAlī established a highly centralized system with a clear chain of command from Cairo through the provincial governors, down to the village headmen.

This series isn't set at fashion's bleeding edge; last week's youth club Madchester night was meant to be a bit crap; this is provincial, run-down, post-industrial England not London or Manchester.

When our Provincial Reconstruction Team shut down, we had to lay off all our employees, and Aida lost her job again.

"This is the fantasy of a provincial security agency down in Kerman wishing to assert its national importance.

The provincial government broke down the main tasks of the campaign, such as the number of coal mine enterprises and mines being retained after the mergers and reorganizations, to each prefectural government.

But politicians with the provincial government clamped down, repeating the "status quo" is a good compromise.

Designer Johannes Schütz strips the Prozorovs' provincial household down to a bare platform backed by a mound of earth.

The publishers of Athens dailies critical of the Govern ment, who continue to find their provincial sales down by about 50percentnt, were reported to day to be planning legal ac tion to end this unofficial ob struction.

The people are all going to be resettled in a temporary camp near Phu Cuong, the provincial capital down the river, and then we're going to move everything out — livestock, furniture, and all of their possessions.