How to pronounce “provincial” in English

past all may lead to violence again now I can see you thinking okay smart guy what about the elections they hadprovincial elections the other day didn't they and I say yeah remember also they had elections back in 2005 rememberthe purple finger elections remember would follow 6 months later a small Civil War elections in Iraq frequently

As long ago as 2014 and the run up to that election, there was a lot of talk about Taliban candidates, at least on the local level, for district governorshipsor provincial governorships. Maybe not like in the FARC in Colombia, where now they're actually in an official process of trying to turn the rebel group into political candidates, whereyou're campaigning under the banner of the FARC, but at least people who are sympathetic to the Taliban, who would be known as representing their interests,

And so to them, when I got there, they gave me a ,, which is--It's a provincial place.

And I was in seventh grade, and I understood about 1/10 of it, although I do remember coming across the word "naive."See how provincial we are, the Upper West Side?

And at the same time, they're winning awards.At the provincial level, people are saying, wow, look at that beautiful environment!How did you get your teachers to spend all of their time creating this beautiful space for children?

Three years ago, when ISIS took over Raqqa, everybody thought, including Assad himself, "Well, what does that matter?It's a provincial backwater.Nobody cares at all." But they were very clever in doing that.

But consider this. His father was an accomplished general.His grandfather was a provincial governor.And their entire family is very focused on military.

Regardless, the Chinese authority was not amused by the flood of Western-infused Chinese programs producedmostly by China's provincial TV stations, therefore the crackdown.But the crackdowns do hurt Chinese television, bottom line.

Yeah. I really, to me, sleep is like the most precious commodity.Why would a provincial Indian government official, unnamed, in a local paper know how much President Obama's security costs were when the White House doesn't even release that information?

There's far greater decentralization of power. There is greater citizen empowerment at the local level then in India today. Everything in India revolves on the Prime Minister, theChief Minister at the provincial level and the District Magistrate at the district level.The citizens and the communities and the local governments have hardly any role at all. Similarly, education, healthcare, there's sense of a modern democracy, have not been given the

Then what happens? If it's from a dealer or an auction house and they're reputable, then they won't sell it.So they were much more provincial type of works.

But I think that's such a key piece of what a Tough Mudder means.But my father was a provincial lawyer, and he has a website.

So the irony with this story with the crossing boys is that East German border forces didnít even know the boys were crossing until they were arrested in West Germany for sellingwere simply bored with life in a provincial back water.

a predominantly religious or ideological motivation in Afghanistan I had aconversation with uh an Afghan provincial leader who said to me a very similar thing and I actually quoted at the start of the Afghan chapter in thebook he said you know 90% of the people that you guys call Taliban are actually tribals they're fighting you for local

it's not some discontent provincials who are just tired of Roman rule and wanna break away and do their own thing. No.

double height doors, French provincial-- or French Second Empire crossed with God-knows-what Hollywood.

until local communities, provincial communities, and in some cases, the national political scene, can benefit from the very things that we're working on.

And I think that I've had a very provincial conception of race and racism.

But all natural resource development and management is managed at the provincial level.

Look at the way that people are trying things at the provincial level.

We found a letter that the Musharraf government had sent to provincial authorities instructing to provide VIP protection to two former Prime ministers

And he's studied all the products of the most provincial workshops way out in rural Northwestern

And then a hundred are sent off to this provincial museum and a hundred are sent off to another provincial museum.

the whole doggy debate was sparked by a mid-ranking provincial cleric whose Friday sermon fulminating against

a universal notion of human value is merely to foist your provincial white colonial merely

But I think there's a weird kind of provincialism when you're from New York, where you think everything is just a New York

In the end, you need the local provincial governors, the mayors to do the job.

There's a referendum actually going on in British Columbia right now at the provincial level.

set by the central government but are much more hazely carried out by provincial and local governments than is often the case uh in in the United

Part of what I've also been thinking about a lot is beyond the different facets of our provincial identity, this idea of a geopolitical intersectionality

And obviously, breweries scale at a much different level than the provincial demand.

He did favors to them and they did the favor that they secured for him a big provincial command in Gaul.

The prices of land are very high, and it's not a provincial rate, but the rate of a normal residential quarter

There were also dignitaries who had flown in from Kabul the night before.I recognized cabinet ministers, army generals, and provincial governors sweating in their suits and uniforms.People were wailing and crying.

Indeed, we had and sold all of our stake in Kraft because of their provincial portfolio and their lack of natural reinvestment.

And the clues are different because the clues of politics in Pakistan are mixed with the provincial elements,

So how does satellite television work in China?Well, in China, each provincial TV station is allowed to operate one satellite TV channel with signal coverage capable, or theoretically capable, ofreaching the entire nation.

reaching the entire nation.But because of the administrative boundaries and local protectionism, provincial satellite TV stations must negotiate with each other to expand theirsatellite channels. And local broadcasters have managed over the years to extend their regional reach, their independent satellite and cable distribution deals with other provincial

Overnight the Getty became, went from a very kind of provincial, middling, regional museum that not a lot of people visited to the richest art museum in the world, a status that it

Empire. It doesn't consider the, the provincials.

- And then you said that one of the important aspects about this edict is that giving equal rights to provincials was one of the things that helped deal with the

stakeholders in the Roman tradition, right? There's all of these provincial armies, and they're appointing their generals as rival emperors.

This is actually just a, it's an attempt by, provincial generals to take the throne, and do so to rule the entire

In Soviet Union, the ministries were in charge of essential bureaucracy, but a lot of the power were given to these provincial governors, party secretaries,

Number one, populism-- the disgust of middle America, not to mention provincial Britain and many other places, with that outcome is real, and it isn't

And he was always in debt and had to be bailed out, even before he could leave for an earlier provincial command by the richest man in Rome, Marcus

I was in China earlier this year, and we were accepted, or received by, I think, seven government ministers, provincial governors,

The KSM Project, which is down here in the Unuk watershed, that project was approved by the provincial and federal

Not only one Malala-- every girl in that valley was like Malala.So they're saying, we're going to wait until all the war is over, and then we'll-- Yeah, well, one thing-- the provincial education has become, now,