province
Example Sentences
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More than two-thirds of China's provinces have scaled back their growth ambitions, either lowering the target figure or shifting language from aiming higher than a certain rate to targeting "around" that level.
From BBC
But on Wednesday morning, the head of the Islamic Propaganda Co-ordination Council of Tehran province told the hardline Tasnim news agency that it had been decided to postpone the ceremony until "a more appropriate time".
From BBC
The air defense ordnance fell in an open area in southern Turkey’s Hatay province, causing no injuries or damage, it added.
In Iraq, he covered the U.S.-backed military campaign to end the Islamic State group’s control of territory, reporting extensively from the frontlines of that war in Mosul and Anbar province.
He also served as the chairperson of the ANC for a decade and was the first premier of the newly-established Free State province after 1994, when South Africa entered the democratic era.
From BBC
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