provincial
Example Sentences
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The outages as well as regular shortages of food, medicine and other basics are spurring frustrations, with demonstrators vandalizing a provincial office of the Cuban Communist Party last weekend.
From Barron's
As the first foreign king to sit on its throne, John brought the provincial city its first taste of cosmopolitanism.
But a provincial official appeared to scotch such suggestions, telling AFP: "There are no security alerts of any kind".
From Barron's
Earlier this week, a group of First Nations leaders gathered at the Alberta legislature in Edmonton to call on the provincial premier, Danielle Smith, to quash any possible succession referendum.
From BBC
Strikes damaged Tehran’s provincial emergency-services headquarters and hit medical facilities overnight, Iranian state media reported.
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