Sentence examples for provincial masses from inspiring English sources

Unlike most of the liberal opposition, who have never found a common language with ordinary Russians, there was always a sense in the Kremlin that Navalny could be dangerous; a fear that his nationalism and charisma could appeal not only to the Moscow hipsters, but equally to the provincial masses, tired of seeing rampant corruption blight the country's governance.

Although public executions have been discontinued, provincial cities still hold mass sentencing rallies, during which convicts wearing confessional placards are driven though the streets in open trucks.

Vast oil fields operated by the British did little to enrich the locals, while the devastating war with Iraq exasperated the poverty in the provincial villages and brought mass displacement.

He was one of only three provincial secretaries who survived the mass executions of the Great Purge of the 1930s.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan government troops repulsed a fresh attack late Tuesday by Taliban fighters massed outside the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah in southwestern Afghanistan and killed at least 18 of them, the provincial governor's office said Wednesday.

The company profited greatly from the German military build-up in the 1930's by expanding from a provincial Lutheran publisher into a mass-market company, supplying 19 million books to the German army.

In 1998, during the mass downloading of provincial highways to lower levels of government, the majority of Highway 86, from the Northfield Drive interchange to Amberley, was decommissioned.

To identify echinococcosis, 7 provincial MoHs carried out a mass abdominal screening of 34,500 persons using portable ultrasound scanners.

Far from resisting the Nazis, as it once claimed, Bertelsmann used its ties with the regime to transform itself from a provincial Lutheran printing company into a mass-market publisher.

People became provincial and self-protective".

For example, some provincial organizations were in the middle of mass media campaigns that included messages and materials promoting the older guidelines.