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province English

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What does province mean?
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province

A province is a major subdivision of a country. Canada has ten provinces and three .

province

(= state) the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation his state is in the deep south the proper sphere or extent of your activities it was his province to take care of himself

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Topics province topics

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Simple sentences

That's my province.
The province is rich in mineral resources.
A four-year-old American tourist was disappointed to realize that, in fact, the Sichuan province is not entirely made of spicy beef, in spite of its famously piquant cuisine.
Alsace is a very beautiful province of France.
Kosovo was a province of Serbia.
Pasta is Fernando's province.
The province supplies its neighbors with various raw materials.
Here's a list of hotels in the capital and province.
We came here from the province where we both grew up.
The capital of Ecuador is Quito, in the mountainous province of Pichincha.

Movie subtitles

It's milder here than in the neighbouring province of Salamanca.
Ah, Indiana, a province in the south of Greece, eh?
Well, that's rather a large order, doctor and I'm afraid a bit beyond the province of law.
And beyond the province of science too.
None of the people of this province would serve here. no matter what I offered to pay them.
That's my province.
Every French province in Africa is honeycombed with traitors waiting for their chance, waiting perhaps for a leader.
No part of marriage. is the exclusive province of any one sex.
As it is, they chase us like dogs from one province to another.
Now that's in a town right here in the middle of von Bruno's province in the Black Forest.
Some obscure martyr in some forgotten province.
You are Master Genjuro of Omi province, are you not?
Publish this throughout the province. Understood?
Col. Mitchell, what explanation the War Department. will have to make to the Japanese ambassador. is beyond the province of this court.
Algeria is and must remain a French province.
Didn't we declare in 1839 and again in 1848 that Algeria was and would remain a French province?
I had become convinced the only way to save this country was to make it a French province.
My ancestral home is in the province of Astrakhan. about two weeks' journey from Moscow.
Pilgrims, from far away outside the province, observe the big-city life with much curiosity.
Piter is a beautifull city but province.
Now you let that dam be built and thank God. You'll still have enough vines to inebriate the province.
Rare delicacies from every province of the empire...and wine from the imperial cellars,...packed in snow and brought by runners from the Alps.
But now, unless you can succeed, you'll be the prince of some desert province and I'll be Rameses' wife.
It becomes the eastern province of the great German Reich!
Miss Claudine Latour of Montreal from the great province of Quebec.
Eighteen hours ago, the Agency sent an undercover team to extract her from a labor camp in the Yunnan province.
They only let the Hurdanos have the hives in winter. It's milder here than in the neighbouring province of Salamanca.
Love is not your province.
I don't think I have to tell you. If I could help it, I wouldn't be in the same province.
We know that every French province in Africa is honeycombed with traitors. Waiting for their chance. Waiting perhaps for a leader.
A bouquet where each province is a flower.
She was sent by governor of Lao province.
Love is not the exclusive province of adolescents, my dear.
It's not in the province of the court to interfere in libel actions. but this action basically is one of domestic origin. deriving from the marriage or non-marriage of the litigants.
In this province, the sale of human beings is forbidden by penalty of the law.
Publish this throughout the province.
In the province of Tango, slave trade has been banned.
To Kaga province.
Governor, are you from Choshu Province?

News and current affairs

But Serbia claims that the province remains an essential part of its historical and cultural tradition.
Kosovo would acquire limited independence, with its status rising from a province of a sovereign state to an international subject capable of entering into certain agreements with other states and even joining the UN.
A host of problems remain unresolved: relations between Serbia and Montenegro and the status of Kosovo (not to mention Serbia's northern province of Vojvodina).
None of it helps to address the underlying problems of poverty, child mortality, water scarcity, and lack of livelihoods in places like Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province, Sudan's Darfur region, or Somalia.
The US has achieved relative successes in the province through alliances with Sunni tribes.
To the east, in the oil-rich province, are the Shia.
The government succumbed and removed the chief minister and his cabinet, placing the troubled province under the care of the provincial governor.
Now Bush will increase the number of American troops in Baghdad and Anbar Province and try to stabilize both the rising sectarian civil war and the Sunni insurgency.
Moreover, Pakistan has partly conceded its demand--which dates to the creation of India and Pakistan a little more than half a century ago--for an internationally supervised referendum in Kashmir to determine the province's sovereignty.
BEIJING - China's Henan province has a population of about 100 million - larger than that of most countries.
Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu province in the west, might never catch up with Suzhou, a well-known manufacturing base near Shanghai.
The reality of life in today's China looks very different from the vantage point of a province far from the heady atmosphere of Beijing or Shanghai.
For example, like much of the country, Gansu Province, at China's geographical center, is grappling with structural and social problems that range from the daunting to the apparently insuperable.
Another labor organizer, Cao Maobing, was committed more recently by police to a mental hospital in Jiangsu province.
KABUL - Recently, the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) office in Kudoz province reported the rescue of a young woman who had been imprisoned in her in-laws' dungeon for seven months.
A tiny elite of Tutsi from the southern province of Bururi controlled all institutions, exploiting them to the fullest.
In fact, my party's support has been growing, with opinion polls now indicating that it is the second most popular in the frontier province - and gaining ground in every other province.
In Kosovo, Ban was able to lower the temperature on the boiling issue of the province's independence.
Shanghai - Tight media control of the unrest in Tibet has been followed by what, to some, looks like far more open coverage of the devastating earthquake in Sichuan province.
The success of these groups, led by Plan International, has forced governments to toughen laws against child marriage, and - as in Pakistan's Sindh province - beef up enforcement and policing.
In 2007, the Metallurgical Corporation of China won the concession for the Aynak copper deposit in Logar Province.
In 2011, a group of Indian state and private companies won the concession for the Hajigak iron-ore deposit in Bamyan Province.
China's state-run Xinhua news agency recently reported on a government investigation into a string of forced sterilizations and abortions in the village of Linyi, Shandong province.
Moreover, China's already restless Muslim-majority province of Xinjiang, which borders on Afghanistan, might be dangerously affected by a Taliban takeover there, or by the country's dismemberment.

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