They allow citizens to vent their grievances and give prompt warning if, say, corruption in a provincial city is getting out of hand.
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.
Provincial, city and county officials have an incentive to maximize economic activity regardless of the environmental costs.
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.
Governments at provincial, county and city levels routinely block goods from other regions.
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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The rebels now control large swaths of northern Syria, and last month captured their first provincial capital, the city of Raqqa.
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.
The group is blamed for a resurgence of sectarian violence including a recent spate of killings in the south-western city of Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan.
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.
More than 60 people have been killed in the city since the weekend when a provincial assembly by-election was held.
Hardest hit, say analysts, are those brands that haven't built up nationally by expanding into second- and third-tier cities developed provincial capitals and prefecture or country-level city capitals where consumer demand is still strong.
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