Like so many towns, provinces and countries across the globe this past year, the Swiss village of Zermatt could have acted sooner.
How a Swiss Ski Resort Was Ravaged by Typhoid and Survived|Daniel Malloy|September 9, 2020|Ozy
Most of my canoe travel has been in the rock-and-pine Canadian Shield terrain of my home province of Ontario.
How (and Why) to Execute the Perfect Canoe Portage|Alex Hutchinson|September 9, 2020|Outside Online
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.
Eastern Germany Picks Up Polish for Children’s Future|Charu Kasturi|September 8, 2020|Ozy
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.
No more maté sharing|Tate Ryan-Mosley|August 19, 2020|MIT Technology Review
The governor of Punjab province, a Muslim man, called publicly for leniency for her.
In Defense of Blasphemy|Michael Tomasky|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The U.S. military is finally starting to train Iraqi troops to fight ISIS in restive Anbar province.
Pentagon Insider on New Plan to Fight ISIS: ‘Of Course It’s Not Enough’|Nancy A. Youssef|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Around half the Baluch in the province are unemployed, a result, say rights groups, of longstanding marginalization by Tehran.
The Dangerous Drug-Funded Secret War Between Iran and Pakistan|Umar Farooq|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Three kids play cricket among the crude gravestones in a cemetery that is the largest in the province.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley|Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman|November 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The violence continues, but on a scale diminished since when American bases and outposts dotted the province.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley|Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman|November 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The arch-bishops presided over a district including several bishoprics within a province; and lastly came the bishops of churches.
A New Witness for God (Volume 1 of 3)|B. H. Roberts
It shall also be substituted for the Government of the Province and the Regierungsbezirk.
Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume XII|Various
In the province of Xanto the hunger was so great that they ate human flesh, for which there was a public market.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XVIII, 1617-1620|Various
Or scientific study of the Bible itself which excludes from its province the so-called spiritual revelations which it contains?
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, September 1899|Various
Publius Sulpicius was also continued in command for a year, to hold the province of Macedonia and Greece, with the same fleet.
History of Rome, Vol III|Titus Livius
British Dictionary definitions for province
province
/ (ˈprɒvɪns) /
noun
a territory governed as a unit of a country or empire
a district, territory, or region
the provinces(plural)those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
ecologya subdivision of a region, characterized by a particular fauna and flora
an area or branch of learning, activity, etc
the field or extent of a person's activities or office
RC ChurchChurch of Englandan ecclesiastical territory, usually consisting of several dioceses, and having an archbishop or metropolitan at its head
a major administrative and territorial subdivision of a religious order
historya region of the Roman Empire outside Italy ruled by a governor from Rome
Word Origin for province
C14: from Old French, from Latin prōvincia conquered territory