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She tells us how little the federal and provincial governments have done to regulate the tar sands.

Twenty years ago it would have been laughable to believe that English provincial cuisine could match French provincial cuisine.

In a province with tens of thousands of Iraq Security Forces, Tikrit, the provincial capital, was seized without a fight.

And on Tuesday, a candidate for a provincial office and nine of his supporters were kidnapped and killed by the Taliban.

In July, parliament lowered its quota for female lawmakers on provincial councils from 25 percent to 20 percent.

He prepared a glossary of provincial and archological words, intended for a supplement to Johnson's Dictionary.

At this same time they seized in Nangasaqui a servant of the father provincial, Matheo Couros, who was washing his clothes.

He was a member of the first provincial congress, and eighteen years lieutenant governor of the state of New York.

True, she had never met the provincial type before, but she doubted if Rosewater had produced a crop of Isabel Otises.

She had no wish to emulate, but neither did she relish feeling provincial, a chit, an outsider.

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On this page you'll find 59 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to provincial, such as: local, rural, bucolic, country, homespun, and narrow.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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