Sentence examples for provincial estates from inspiring English sources
The most important of various representative bodies in the Spanish Netherlands were the provincial estates or assemblies.
The intendants also represented the crown at meetings of provincial estates, enforced royal laws, and advised the king on a variety of local problems fiscal, administrative, and military.
The States General, consisting of delegates from all the provincial estates, had enjoyed great influence before and during the revolt against Spain.
But, in those provinces where the provincial Estates survived (the pays d'état), the right to vote the amount of royal taxation also survived.
The few dissenters were overruled, and on July 8 (New Style) he was proclaimed stadholder by the States General, later ratified by the provincial estates of the occupied provinces.
Louis could and often did try to persuade the cities and provincial Estates to raise their contributions and the clergy to increase the size of their don gratuit ("free gift"); he also created more offices and annuities.
Thus, the action begins at St . Petersburg continues on a provincial estate, then switches to Moscow, and finally returns to St . Petersburg
Her stinginess — she is rich but tips poorly and won't give Konstantin the money to leave their provincial estate — is indicative of an internal poverty.
(Ticket Central) www.MCCTheater.org UNCLE VANYA -- Janos Szasz directs his own adaptation of Chekhov's anguished play about life on a provincial estate that is unsettled when the master takes a wife.
Rothermere 4 is apparently a quite shy, well-mannered man who has developed enough self-awareness to realise that he may not be best placed to understand the hard-edged lives of the commuting software salesmen and provincial estate agents who make up the Mail's core audience.
And the well-meaning should beware of giving out the message that sending a foreigner to a provincial housing estate represents cruelty - after all, it has had to be good enough for millions of Britons.
