6 sentences with 'provincial'
Example sentences and phrases with the word provincial and other words derived from it.
• « In 1952, as a 19-year-old provincial student, I was introduced to the "high society" of Moscow. »
• « 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. »
• « The US media portrayed him as a victim of the country's provincial justice, hastily administered without sufficient evidence. »
• « 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. »
• « The Sociedad Patriótica movement was reportedly encouraged by the provincial deputies and sought to assert Saavedra's authority. »