Springsteen was, at best, a gifted obscurity, a provincial who was running out of chances.
The international port of Tangier in those years, in comparison, seems like a provincial backwater.
Miss Welty may have been a regional writer but she was never a provincial one.
But in recent months its activists have been targeted by the Taliban, including a provincial lawmaker, Manzar Imam.
How on earth were such folk outsmarted by a provincial hick best known for its Ski-Doos and Sea-Doos?
Outside, to the far left of Beast's Castle is Maurice's Cottage, a provincial abode that houses an enchanted mirror.
He deployed twice including a 9-month deployment in eastern Afghanistan after volunteering for duty on a Provincial Reconstruction Team.
Canada has a similar point system, along with a Provincial Nominee Program to meet the needs of local industries.
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The possibility of fear is approaching, the way wind approaches a provincial capital.
The dangers are great for Mr. Hussain, the ANP's former information minister, who is running for a provincial parliamentary seat.
In 1993 the People's Bank of Hainan decided to establish a provincial financial-data network using a credit card with a microchip.
Officials said it was the first time that the entire government of a provincial capital had been dismissed over suspected mafia links.
It provides a timetable for elections to a provincial parliament which would virtually control Kosovo while retaining loose institutional links to Belgrade.
Wind gusts ranged from 100 kph to 120 kph (62 mph to 75 mph), said Luciano Timerman, a provincial emergency official, Telam reported.
This wise and gentle comedy of political realism, by the Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu, concerns a local television talk show in a provincial city.
In North Sulawesi, Mr Sarundajang, a member of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, will have to co-operate with a provincial parliament dominated by Golkar.
Harbin, a provincial city in northeastern China, has a larger population.
Khwaja Mahboob told Pajhwok that he voted for a woman for a provincial council seat because he believed women should have a stronger say in Afghanistan.
In an about-turn remarkable even for a provincial government expert at tacking with changing winds, Quebec said that it would, in essence, ignore the court's ruling.
"We want to prove that we do believe in the democratic process, " said Akhtar Mengal, who is running for a provincial legislature seat for his BNP-M party.
Ali Haider Gilani, the son of ex-premier Yousuf Raza Gilani from the Pakistan People's Party, is running for a provincial assembly seat in the district of Multan.
Once part of Sichuan province, it was carved off in 1997 to become what Beijing calls a provincial-level city, joining Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin in that category.
He started as an apprentice in a provincial shop, and he recalled that two of his uncles taught him how to buy eggs and milk for resale.
As Mr Biden was showing off US military hardware in Beirut, Hezbollah was staging its own show of strength in Nabatieh, a provincial centre south-east of the capital.
Covering an area of 75 acres, this huge open-air museum was established in 1891 to recreate the atmosphere of a provincial Swedish town from the early 19th century.
At a provincial election last month Mr Charest managed to win a third term with a narrow majority (having governed with a legislative minority in his second term).
The contrast between the suave, charming, seemingly cosmopolitan Mr Gonzalez and the dour, tight-lipped Mr Aznar, who got going as a provincial tax inspector, could not be sharper.
Dunham worked with a provincial development office that provided small loans, and education in bookkeeping and business, to craftsmen and small businesses, and she helped encourage lending to women.
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Many thought that the real reason was that she was an outsider, a brainbox with a provincial background, not a member of the charmed circle of reformers in Warsaw.
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