Sentence examples for provincial name from inspiring English sources

But wary national commentators warned that such a provincial name would undermine Bangalore's global ambitions.

Rounding the last turn on the Staten Island Expressway, the southwestern stretch of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway with a provincial name and an $8 admission fee, cars zoom past a slope of overgrown, mixed and unpedigreed vegetation that could be mistaken for kudzu.

An old provincial name, "dumbledor", also denoted a buzzing insect such as a bumblebee or cockchafer, "dumble" probably imitating the sound of these insects, while "dor" meant "beetle".

Of the 25 provincial governors named, 19 are generals: 17 from the military and 2 from the police.

Designed around an 11th-century provincial detective named Sugawara Akitada, these mysteries are saturated with details about the social milieu in which each investigation is set.

Despite its provincial-sounding name, the orchestra is an elite ensemble of musicians under 27, all participants in a North German festival that Leonard Bernstein founded as a European counterpart to Tanglewood.

In the Dutch colonial period, the director general of New Netherland was a city resident who ruled both province and burgh, but after 1664 England's provincial governor named a mayor.

Following a secretive succession plan sketched out years ago, Mr. Hu has already begun preparing for his departure from power, passing the baton to his presumed successor, a former provincial leader named Xi Jinping, now China's vice president.

He has been under fire since October, when a former drinking and gambling partner, a provincial governor named Luis Singson, said that the president had received nearly $11 million in kickbacks from illegal gambling and in money skimmed from tobacco taxes.

Among them, a provincial boss named Yang Dacai, known as Brother Wristwatch for his handsome collection, was found to have nearly nine hundred thousand dollars in unexplained assets; he is now serving fourteen years in prison for corruption.

Earlier this week, a provincial governor named Li Hongzhong snatched a digital recorder out of the hands of a reporter who had asked an unwelcome question and threatened to track down her boss.