Word: provinciale
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A party pledged to separatism won a majority of the seats in Quebec's provincial election last night, for the first time in nearly a decade. The Parti Quebecois, led by Jacques Parizeau, won 45 percent of the popular vote and captured 77 of the 125 seats in the Quebec...
Given my stature as a sophisticated Harvard student, I decided to forgive this woman for her ignorance and pay no heed to her provincial warning. I showed the letter to my mother, who also believed Harvard could do no wrong, and we shared a laugh over it.
Cole was the first boy wonder of American painting to prove himself entirely on native ground. Earlier prodigies, like Benjamin West, had had to do it in Europe, and it mattered greatly to John Singleton Copley's clients in Boston that Sir Joshua Reynolds praised Copley's early work. But...
In any event, after completing high school in June 1964, Zhirinovsky boarded a plane for Moscow to attend the prestigious Oriental Languages Institute at Moscow State University. The move was surprising for a provincial boy with no family connections, and it has fueled speculation that he must have had help...
Chevron also had to contend with irate Foi and Fasu tribesmen who, armed with spears, axes and bows and arrows, occupied the project's airstrip and attacked some company officials. The tribespeople demanded a more favorable split of the oil royalties between them and the provincial government and fulminated over...