6 sentences with “provincial”

The army was important for integrating provincial subjects into Roman culture.

In 1952, as a 19-year-old provincial student, I was introduced to the "high society" of Moscow.

The US media portrayed him as a victim of the country's provincial justice, hastily administered without sufficient evidence.

The Sociedad Patriótica movement was reportedly encouraged by the provincial deputies and sought to assert Saavedra's authority.

Similarly, when a Jesuit astronomer, Fr. Sheiner, reported to his provincial that he had observed sunspots (discovered by Galileo), the latter replied: "Retire, my son, be calm and be assured that it is defects of your crystals or of your eyes that you have taken for sunspots.

After the First Punic War and the capture of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, the Roman provincial system emerged: the islands became "provinces" of the Republic, each of which was obliged to pay a tribute (the "tithe", meaning tenth, of all grain) and to follow the orders of Roman governors appointed by the Senate.