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Such landscapes would vex the Lord of the Rings special effects team, let alone the handful of creatives likely to be assembled by a provincial playhouse.

"It's just the beginning," the sheik said during a meeting in the provincial government building with a U.S. Army commander and seven other spiritual leaders.

The pilot was from Toronto and the passengers were all from southwestern Ontario four from Chatham, two from Windsor and two from Kingsville, the provincial police said in a written statement.

Freedom amid despair Emboldened by British patronage and pelf, the Muslim League swept Muslim reserved seats in the 1945 provincial elections and began the clamor for partition.

Out of them, all three women were sent back to their provincial teams, including Li Nan, ranked No. 9 in the world.

The narrator, determined to fit in at his high-toned New England prep school, doesn't lie so much as keep shtoom about his origins, which are lowly, provincial and partly Jewish.

In one, he had returned to his native Argentina and was now the owner of a small provincial circus.

Muslims were promised 30 per cent representation in provincial councils.

Her Italy was no more than one provincial town.

I climbed the cathedral towers and mountain peaks from which they conducted their survey, and combed the provincial archives for traces of their passage.

In the north, despotic provincial caudillos held sway over vast expanses of cotton- and sugar-growing lands.

Though his criticisms of the way the KGB had been run were mild by Western standards, late in 1956 Mitrokhin was moved from operations to the FCD archives, where his main job was answering queries from other departments and provincial KGBs.

Thus they settled in small agricultural centres, always a tiny minority, provincial, and mostly poor.

The provincial centres of Jewish life for so many generations emptied; and by the end of the nineteenth century Turin's Jewish population had doubled, to around 4,000. Among them were Primo Levi's maternal grandmother, from Alessandria, and his maternal grandfather, from Casale.

Within one or two generations Italian Jews had transformed themselves from small provincial traders, moneylenders and rabbis to metropolitan professionals, particularly in the professions of writing and the Word: government service, the law, the universities, journalism.

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