Synonym: bucolic, peasant. Similar words: province, provide, provided, provider, provident, provision, financial, pronunciation. Meaning: [prə'vɪnʃl] n. 1. (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order 2. a country person. adj. 1. of or associated with a province 2. characteristic of the provinces or their people.
Random good picture Not show
61. Even the middle-ranking provincial posts continued to attract humbler noblemen who often took them up after retiring from the army.
62. This thriving group included some of the old provincial capitals such as Bristol, Newcastle and Norwich.
63. He was a Persian provincial governor, whose powers had few limits provided he stayed loyal.
64. Preliminary results for elections to a total of 483 seats in the four provincial assemblies were announced on Oct. 29.
65. It also provided for increased powers for the provincial governments, including a veto for all provinces over future constitutional change.
66. Elections to a lower house of parliament would be by proportional representation and an upper house would be appointed by provincial governments.
67. The Council is associated with other local authorities represented on the national and provincial councils dealing with local authorities' services.
68. There was also much overlap between the nationals and the provincial mornings and evenings.
69. Coverage of the Henan scandal also points the finger at inaction by the provincial authorities.
70. And what a great innovation the Provincial Insurance Cup for junior clubs has been.
71. In the first months the Provincial Juntas acted as independent sovereign states.
72. Foremost among provincial towns were a handful of regional capitals with populations upwards of five or six thousand.sentencedict.com/provincial.html
73. The philanthropic family's largesse was echoed by surprise announcements from both the Federal and provincial governments.
74. Most of its students are the provincial poor, the target audience of leftist guerrilla groups.
75. The river Aver continues westward past the provincial capital at Averheim and finally flows into the Reik at Nuln.
76. The provincial authorities were to turn over more revenue to the state while receiving reduced subsidies, in order to centralize resources.
77. They had increasing difficulty in providing even tolerably competent candidates for the array of provincial posts reserved for them.
78. She looked as if she were about to set off for a provincial cocktail party, an office party of female executives.
79. Numbers of novelists, poets, essayists and artists had early work printed by provincial presses.
80. In the first place, since little research had taken place outside London, we chose to investigate a provincial city.
81. The most outspoken advocates of public participation in central government were a minority of activists among the provincial nobility.
82. Twenty years later saw the creation of provincial fraud squads.
83. It constituted an even clearer expression of provincial mobilisation and disregard for parliamentary initiative and manoeuvre than 1833.
84. The government decreed a ban on all contact with the guerrillas by local and provincial government officials.
85. A pilot project in Zambezia province aims to decentralize and integrate management of donor and provincial funds.
86. Inpart they were motivated by concern to shore up the influence of their class over provincial affairs.
87. That was made abundantly clear at a colourful congress in the provincial capital, Jayapura, last month.
88. We drove up to the provincial government building in Xiangzhou, a few miles to the north.
89. The provincial garrison at Bien Hoa will be called out!
90. The central bureaucracy was embryonic and his provincial officials were spread wafer-thin and proved very difficult to supervise.
More similar words: province, provide, provided, provider, provident, provision, financial, pronunciation, financial crisis, moving, convincing, prove, enunciate, proven, approve, proverb, provoke, approval, improved, social, racial, facial, annunciation, renunciation, approve of, crucial, socially, special, official, judicial.