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province
noun as in area of rule, responsibility
Example Sentences
Like so many towns, provinces and countries across the globe this past year, the Swiss village of Zermatt could have acted sooner.
Most of my canoe travel has been in the rock-and-pine Canadian Shield terrain of my home province of Ontario.
Increasingly priced out of their own cities, Poles are already buying fixer-uppers in provinces like Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where some villages now boast a Polish population of 20 percent and more.
Every province provides direct subsidies, such as unemployment insurance, to the poor.
The most recent outbreak was in a province called Treinta y Tres that is close to the Brazilian border, and this was the second outbreak we had of Brazilian origin.
The governor of Punjab province, a Muslim man, called publicly for leniency for her.
In Afghanistan, there was a push to take back the southern province Helmand.
The U.S. military is finally starting to train Iraqi troops to fight ISIS in restive Anbar province.
Around half the Baluch in the province are unemployed, a result, say rights groups, of longstanding marginalization by Tehran.
Three kids play cricket among the crude gravestones in a cemetery that is the largest in the province.
You would not think it too much to set the whole province in flames so that you could have your way with this wretched child.
But the Mexicans were not the people to give up their best province so easily.
Then affairs almost reached the point where the province was in hostile array, one side against another.
Hitherto the discalced Franciscan religious of this province have had charge of their spiritual matters.
The ship has anchored in the province of Ylocos, eighty leguas from here, as the weather does not permit it to come to this port.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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