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pro vuhns

  • n  the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
  • n  the proper sphere or extent of your activities
    it was his province to take care of himself

  • Hereafter Formosa will be run like a province of metropolitan China.
  • Helmand province is mostly desert, but it produces half the world's opium supply along a narrow strip of irrigated land that straddles the Helmand River.
  • The province called "Bombay Presidency" is by itself two-and-a-half times the size of England and five times more populous than Scotland.
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  • President Bush in Reuters India
    Let me assure you that no authorities of my church, or of any other church for that matter, will ever exert influence on presidential decisions. Their authority is theirs, within the province of church affairs, and it ends where the affairs of the... Mitt Romney http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHsbJvd1A8Hj2N-SfDDingX9k3-RA Forbes http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/12/06/ap4412314.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNF6i_FqfMX2k5-v9k7Fuf61okFhcg Dec 6, 2007 78477 105512 province I extend my condolences to those injured and to the families of the victims of today's earthquake in China's Sichuan province," US President George W. Bush said in a statement. "I am particularly saddened by the number of students and...
  • Chuck Hagel in Reuters
    These young men and women we put in Anbar province, in Baghdad, are not beans. They are real lives, and we better be damn sure we know what we are doing,Hagel said.

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