Whether the ward system creates a provincial focus within local government or a more democratic and responsive one is "the $64,000 question," Mr. Nickerson said.
The Yoknapatawpha novels demonstrated that a provincial focus could sharpen an artist's grasp of universal themes, and so impress an international audience.
Look, which went out of business in 1971, was more provincial, focusing most of its attention on American pursuits and problems, and hiring photographers who were highly professional but rarely inspired.
"When I became director in 1993, my colleagues and I found an institution that was very provincial, focusing more on very established Modernist artists versus what was going on in the contemporary art world, which was extremely vibrant and important.
Almost all other health authorities in Canada have a regional rather then provincial focus.
However, as the stakeholder categories of our framework developed, a provincial focus was adopted to provide better context for the stakeholder chart and a more feasible scope for the project.
Provincial policy focuses on soil conservation and new product development.
Her masterpiece, Middlemarch (1871 72), is an unprecedentedly full study of the life of a provincial town, focused on the thwarted idealism of her two principal characters.
To examine the impact of the new Canadian tobacco package warning labels with a quitline toll-free phone number for seven provincial quitlines, focusing on treatment reach and reach equity in selected vulnerable groups.
By Michael Klaus In a part of Indonesia in which the only way for children to attend secondary school is to leave home and live in large boarding homes, UNICEF, NGOs and the provincial government focus on youth like Markus in their programmes – and include them in their planning.
