This wise and gentle comedy of political realism, by the Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu, concerns a local television talk show in a provincial city.
Harbin, a provincial city in northeastern China, has a larger population.
He was hired by RT, the Kremlin-financed television station, after giving an impressive presentation on a cucumber festival in the provincial city of Kirov, he says.
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During this summer's festivities, the example of Glasgow (like Nancy, a provincial city with a strong Art Nouveau tradition which is now being revived) was quoted and explained at several symposia here.
He tellingly refused to greet Mr Ban on his arrival in Kinshasa, the capital, but met him instead in the provincial city of Kisangani, in Congo's east, where the president is more popular.
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The financier, who has swapped his Czech citizenship for Irish, failed to appear in a court in Plzen, a provincial city, on March 17th to testify in the retrial of a former secret-service agent, Vaclav Wallis.
In China, it is common for companies to be owned by central, provincial, city or county governments.
Part of this is thanks to the role of provincial and city governments.
Self-deprecating and friendly, with big freckles and a ready smile beneath unfashionably boxy glasses, he is as unassuming as the company headquarters in provincial Toyota City.
Once part of Sichuan province, it was carved off in 1997 to become what Beijing calls a provincial-level city, joining Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin in that category.
During Estrada's presidential campaign, Manuel worked as the then-vice president's chief fundraiser while Ronaldo handled the political aspects, recruiting opposition candidates for provincial governors, city and town mayors and congressmen.
Like a number of employees, Mr. Wang said he was frustrated because he has already spent five months in Taiyuan, and still has no certainty about when he can return to the boom town of Shenzhen, which he prefers to the more provincial, industrial city of Taiyuan.
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In its 700-odd years of recorded history, the city has been both capital city and provincial backwater.
Jinze turned out to be a bustling provincial township within the city limits, filled with grimy concrete-block housing and shabby stores.
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Nunavik, which has 11, 000 residents, would still legally be part of Quebec and would remain subordinate to the provincial legislature in Quebec City.
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The assets of the Piazza group, administered by Gaetano Cappellano Seminara, a Palermo lawyer, include over 50 schools that are let to city and provincial authorities.
Esther Lederer said she had had none other than the moral principles gained from her parents, immigrants from Russia, and being brought up in a solid provincial town, Sioux City, Iowa.
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Parallels exist between South Korea's Roh Moo-hyun and Jimmy Carter, the U.S. president of the late 1970s, the latest being the extraordinary repudiation of Roh's Uri party in city and provincial elections at the end of May.
"Mr. Farley was a member of our embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team for the Sadr City and Adhamiya districts of Baghdad City, " the statement said.
Among the affected areas was the provincial capital of Lata, a city of about 2, 300 in Temotu Province where hospital patients were evacuated to higher ground.
North Kivu provincial governor Julien Paluku told the BBC that security was being increased in Goma, as he feared the rebels would try to cut the city off from the provincial army headquarters in Bueremana.
It's a city whose brilliance is strangely provincial, and whose fussy introspection is set in a landscape of matchless imperial openness and grandeur.
Its Mount Seymour Provincial Park - just moments from the city centre - provides more than a dozen popular hiking trails and the possibility of sighting (preferably from a good distance) a bear or cougar.
Thalmann had worked for six years at the city hospital in Klagenfurt, the small provincial capital in south Austria where the girl was resuscitated.
Both Mr. Sharif's PML-N and Mr. Khan's PTI draw much of their support from Punjab, the country's wealthiest province, and the election is particularly hard-fought in Lahore, the provincial capital and the country's second largest city.
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Both Mr. Sharif's PML-N and Mr. Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf draw much of their support from Punjab, the country's wealthiest province, and the election was particularly hard-fought in Lahore, the provincial capital and the country's second largest city.
Others have been casting doubts on the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) - the largest and most organised political party of the city which is a partner in power both at the provincial and central levels but whose relations with the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) have soured over the past couple of months.
This has given them control of much of the city of Aleppo, Syria's largest, and one provincial capital, Raqqa.
On November 15th, the provincial council of Guayas, which includes Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city and main port, voted to hold a referendum on autonomy.
Nine of us headed off early on Saturday morning to kayak in the Indian Arm Provincial Park, an 18 kilometre fjord just 30 minutes away from Vancouver City.
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