Sentence examples for provincial setting from inspiring English sources

Reggaetón plays out in a more provincial setting in hundreds of clubs that dot the countryside.

At one point many of the characters in "Little Children" attend a meeting of the Bellington Ladies Belletristic Societyy, a book group that is discussing "Madame Bovary," possibly the first and in many ways still the greatest of the suburban novels, the one that established the potent combination of romantic yearning and a provincial setting.

Yunus, in Anatolia, however, was the first known poet to have caught something of Rūmī's fervour and translated it into a provincial setting, creating "a Turkish vernacular poetry that was to be the model for all subsequent literary productions of popular religion".

Although the communality estimates are not available to us for the Swedish elderly who were located in a provincial setting, we can say that elderly men in Sweden and Taiwan have comparable factor loadings for the various MetS components [ 29] Rural Taiwanese women, but not Urban Taiwanese women, had a Metabolic factor and a BP factor like provincial Swedish women.

But the story of Burton Kaplan's life, as it emerged, was at once remarkably international, spanning several continents, and remarkably provincial, set in a New York so small and narrow as to be almost unrecognizable.

This change makes the provincial set-up look more like that in the central party and government, where the minister of public security, Meng Jianzhu, is not on the 24-member Politburo, let alone the standing committee.One reason to think the power of the police is on the wane is the recent decline in the fortunes of the central political-legal chief, Zhou Yongkang.

"Joe is an intelligent guy - he's an excellent coach, plus we have a very good provincial set-up, a lot of strength in depth and genuine competition for places," Ireland captain Paul O'Connell said.

Ontario is among the provincial bodies setting the legal age at 19, and although this decision aligns with the province's legal age restrictions on alcohol and tobacco sales, it contradicts the recommended best practices laid out by the Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services (MCSCS).

But after months of bitter feuding, Iraq's Parliament has finally approved a budget, outlined the scope of provincial powers, set an Oct. 1 date for provincial elections and voted a general amnesty for detainees.

Mr. Bush and President-elect Barack Obama must do whatever they can to strengthen institutions that can stabilize Iraq, starting with ensuring that provincial elections, set for Jan.

And the imminent return to the government of national unity of the mainstream Sunni alliance ahead of provincial elections set for October "may help to ease their sense of marginalisation, and bring in fresh funds", said Broadwater.