Sentence examples for provincial only from inspiring English sources

But "Olive Kitteridge" is provincial only in a literal sense.

Despite its technological sophistication, architectural profile and stated aims, it can seem strangely provincial; only here, in this flags-of-the-world-bedecked 'international city', have I had my foreignness pointed out by a passing child.

Recalculation of the large-area model using limited traffic data (national and provincial only) resulted in a lower explained variance of that model (R = 73% vs. 87% for the recalculated and original large-area LUR, respectively) [Supplemental Material, Figures 2 and 4 (doi:10.1289/ehp.0901818)].

In provincial elections, only one vote is cast.

Provincial forces only began to create their own special branches after the mass protests of 1967 and 1968.

I could fly from Panama City to David, a provincial capital only about 20 miles from Boquete, for about $50.

"Whenever there are new elections for the national or provincial assemblies, only those two parties will be there.

Although he had defined the aims of insurrection, he hesitated to advocate it: "Fight the common enemy," he told the provincial volunteers, "only with the sword of law".

Add up the qualities of Bazille's singularity — provincial, Protestant, only putatively wealthy, perhaps gay — and you have a lonely man, in whom it's almost impossible not to take a tender rooting interest.

At Candelaria, where the Jesuits had their provincial headquarters, only a few walls within sight of the Paraná River remain — and those are on the grounds of a prison, whose permission is required before the ruins can be visited.

At the start, a ten-year-old boy named Jiro Horikoshi imagines flying above his provincial home, only to be awakened by bombs that fall from a hulking aerial warship.