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1. Of course Tahlmute would discuss nothing about the journey with Estwig along, instead he discussed the theater in this region and what he found interesting and what he found provincial
2. One day, attracted by the unrivalled opportunities being offered to skilled people by this new broom sweeping through government’s old and crusty cobwebs of social patronage, two provincial public relations specialists arrived in the city determined to make their fortunes
3. Billy has never quite been able to shake off the provincial history of the six counties
4. It is early on a Sunday morning in provincial England and mobile patrols are busy
5. Despite Arbnor Jasari's inherent dislike of provincial life he is too smart to make a beeline for bright city lights
6. The want of money and the crushing boredom of provincial life make for a poor bedside manner, but there is something else about Jasari, something brutal
7. ’ Jarvis said, noting James’s poorly concealed astonishment that he, a provincial copper, should know such a fact
8. complete the sooner they could leave this provincial
9. an average-sized provincial church
10. The paper of each colony being received in the payment of the provincial taxes, for the full value for which it had been issued, it necessarily derived from this use some additional value, over and above what it would have had, from the real or supposed distance of the term of its final discharge and redemption
11. It has been proposed, accordingly, that the colonies should be taxed by requisition, the parliament of Great Britain determining the sum which each colony ought to pay, and the provincial assembly assessing and levying it in the way that suited best the circumstances of the province
12. What concerned the whole empire would in this way be determined by the assembly which inspects and superintends the affairs of the whole empire ; and the provincial affairs of each colony might still be regulated by its own assembly
13. This prohibition, joined to the restraints imposed by the ancient provincial laws of France upon the transportation of corn from one province to another, and to the arbitrary and degading taxes which are levied upon the cultivators in almost all the provinces, discouraged and kept down the agriculture of that country very much below the state to which it would naturally have risen in so very fertile a soil, and so very happy a climate
14. The ancient provincial restraints upon the transportation of corn from one province of the kingdom to another, have been entirely taken away; and the liberty of exporting it to all foreign countries, has been
15. In order to render them less formidable, according to some authors, Dioclesian, according to others, Constantine, first withdrew them from the frontier, where they had always before been encamped in great bodies, generally of two or three legions each, and dispersed them in small bodies through the different provincial towns, from whence they were scarce ever removed, but when it became necessary to repel an invasion
16. By the ancient law of France, as well as by that of most other parts of Europe, the labour of the country people was under the direction of a local or provincial magistracy, which had no immediate dependency upon the king's council
17. Even those public works, which are of such a nature that they cannot afford any revenue for maintaining themselves, but of which the convecniency is nearly confined to some particular place or district, are always better maintained by a local or provincial revenue, under the management of a local and provincial administration, than by the general revenue of the state, of which the executive power must always have the management
18. The abuses which sometimes creep into the local and provincial administration of a local and provincial revenue, how enormous soever they may appear, are in reality, however, almost always very trifling in comparison of those which commonly take place in the administration and expenditure of the revenue of a great empire
19. Under the local or provincial administration of the justices of the peace in Great Britain, the six days labour which the country people are obliged to give to the reparation of the highways, is not always, perhaps, very judiciously applied, but it is scarce ever exacted with any circumstance of cruelty or oppression
20. It everywhere arises chiefly from some local or provincial revenue, from the rent of some landed estate, or from the interest of some sum of money, allotted and put under the management of trustees for this particular purpose, sometimes by the sovereign himself, and sometimes by some private donor
21. Eventually we detrained at Amiens the provincial capital of Picardy that also had a famous Cathedreral, at the moment there were no orders for us and so we ended up spending the night sleeping on the streets with the Battalion transport with hundreds of other soldiers who were waiting for orders as well
22. As they were originally local and provincial duties, applicable to local and provincial purposes, the administration of them was, in most cases, entrusted to the particular town, parish, or lordship, in which they were levied; such communities being, in some way or other, supposed to be accountable for the application
23. Besides the duty of one penny a-gallon imposed by the British parliament upon the importation of molasses into America, there is a provincial tax of this kind upon their importation into Massachusetts Bay, in ships belonging to any other colony, of eight-pence the hogshead; and another upon their importation from the northern colonies into South Carolina, of five-pence the gallon
24. Modern Society is in the throes of a revolutionary Revolt of Conscience; the solitary by-product of moral and intellectual parochialism that is gradually revealing itself in the vested self-interest(s) and manners of unbridled Individualism that has undermined equalitarian idealism, that once defined the national culture, by rendering every individual the sole arbiter of his or her own conscience and ensuing choices without giving proper pause to how such choices may otherwise impact, for better or for worse, other individuals or to a transcendent authority that each must (inevitably) be held accountable; that is to say, whose (social) consequences existing outside the provincial boundaries of that individual‘s (own) estate are no longer limited by (moral) restraint or prescribed rules of moral and ethical conduct but conditioned rather by circumventing designs contrary to the proportionate interests of a well-ordered society
25. When they received an anonymous call, and found a package in a phone booth, the provincial cops started putting two and two together
26. The piece of land in question fronted on Lake Kandechio to the north, the right bank of the Shashawanaga Cut on the west, and The Pines Provincial Park on the east
27. Brubaker was a thorough-going type of guy, with a pit-bull tenacity that served him well in his years of feuding with the provincial government
28. The Pines Provincial Park had a good-sized deer herd up there
29. “The flag of Limon? We don’t happen have a provincial flag
30. Three American graduate students from NYU, actively involved in the Sandinista Party, were guests at his wedding, making him feel important among the provincial folk of Jinotega
31. She saw a quiet provincial town of colonial architecture preserved in time from centuries gone by but, eerily scarred with bullet-pocked walls
32. I hadn’t told her about Susan Lee, but she was hardly provincial about matters like that
33. The capital will be renamed Kar-Shulman-ashare-du ("Shalmaneser´s Fort") and will host the provincial government
34. As part of the research for his thesis, he did geological mapping for the provincial government in the far north of Quebec, getting paid for the reports he submitted
35. Already expert in baking bread from my days in Quebec, I studied the books of Elizabeth David to learn how to cook like the provincial French – all to please my husband whose chief delight, when not fishing, was gastronomy
36. He placed noblemen as provincial governors, and maintained conquered territory
37. His provincial administration was
38. We met no more resistance in the province, but then we went directly to the provincial capital instead of visiting each village
39. Edward also insisted on ordering a bottle of champagne and cigars, and although I would have preferred my own cigarettes, some fear of perhaps not fitting in or appearing too provincial made me accept a cigar
40. We were camped on our old bone-strewn battlefield south of the provincial capital
41. was created, the provincial point of view prevailed over the fact that American
42. asked provincial prosecutors in an unrelated case for documents related to
43. First it is necessary to understand that some federal (and provincial)
44. Because Canada’s federal government and the Ontario provincial taxes vastly exceeded the combination of U
45. Candace said she had often seen mysterious lights coming down from the sky to enter the bay and the grounds of the provincial park on the opposite shore, while others lifted into the sky from the same locations
46. The last I heard he was writing Cobol code in a provincial capital
47. with beautiful and spacious homes, and an old style provincial market place
48. Every years, Sulawesi’s provincial capitals are given the chance to host the Kemilau
49. He speaks fluently in the provincial language of Panjabi
50. Indians were divided along the lines of caste, religions, and provincial languages