During this summer's festivities, the example of Glasgow (like Nancy, a provincial city with a strong Art Nouveau tradition which is now being revived) was quoted and explained at several symposia here.
This bout arose ahead of a by-election necessitated by the murder of a leading provincial lawmaker, a member of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).
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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Last Wednesday, she saw a woman who was referred from a major provincial hospital because of a complicated labour.
In 1993 the People's Bank of Hainan decided to establish a provincial financial-data network using a credit card with a microchip.
In this provincial courtroom a modest parcel of forest is at stake.
Mr Rosales was provincial, a poor speaker and old fashioned.
Another, Anwar, 63, is a member of the provincial assembly and a member of the party in power, the Pakistan People's Party (the party of Benazir Bhutto, which is now led by her widower, Asif Ali Zardari).
Harbin, a provincial city in northeastern China, has a larger population.
Before, it had been warm and slightly dumb, the smile of a young lady from a provincial capital, but it had become a mean, hurtful smile, and it was easy to read the resentment, rage, and envy behind it.
Since 1990 some of the fiercest confrontations have been over an oil development near Lubicon Lake, Alberta, a golf course expansion at Oka, Quebec, a provincial park in Ipperwash, Ontario, a ski resort at Sun Peaks, British Columbia, and military flights over Labrador.
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.
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).
John Magolego, a local vigilante boss, was elected to the provincial legislature on a policy of curbing crime by whipping perpetrators' backsides.
The financier, who has swapped his Czech citizenship for Irish, failed to appear in a court in Plzen, a provincial city, on March 17th to testify in the retrial of a former secret-service agent, Vaclav Wallis.
Some forest scientists trace the current outbreak to 1994, when provincial-government foresters, fearing the ire of greens, failed to eradicate a small infestation in a provincial park by cutting and burning.
On top, up now pops Mr Menem at his side, and ready to take the spotlight as what might have been a fairly easy provincial skirmish becomes part of a fierce nationwide battle.
The German Defense Ministry in Berlin confirmed a bomb attack near a base that houses a German provincial reconstruction team in the town of Kunduz, a ministry spokesman said.
Fleming and co-writer Tiffany Paulsen has set the story firmly in 2007, but their Nancy Drew is an anachronism who dresses in tweedy skirts, preppy knits and penny-loafers, and whose prim sense of right and wrong (she drinks milk and knows CPR) quickly marks her as a social outcast when she moves from provincial Riverside Heights to a new school, Hollywood High.
The only original thought, supported by some in and out of the mohajir movement, would be to take the politics out of business by creating a new provincial capital for Sindh, and to turn Karachi into a free port.
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.
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