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• 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.

• state
• responsibility

News & Articles

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• Argentina Province Slaps Hefty Tax on Embattled Mining Companies
  Argentina Province Slaps Hefty Tax on Embattled Mining Companies
  June 18, 2013 - Nasdaq
• Report documents eight decades of Capuchin province's poor handling of sex abuse
  The report, released by a province of Franciscan priests known as Capuchins, could raise questions of how communities of religious, which are not under direct control of bishops, are handling abuse allegations.
  June 18, 2013 - National Catholic Reporter
• Insecurity in Congo copper province a "serious concern": UN
  By Jonny Hogg KINSHASA (Reuters) - Security in Congo's copper-mining heartland of Katanga is a "very serious concern" that must be tackled politically and militarily, the outgoing head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission said on Monday. The province, which sits on some of the world's largest copper reserves, last year exported 600,000 tonnes. Miners including Freeport McMoRan and Glencore already ...
  June 18, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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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.