Provincial cities, however, experienced equal and, in many cases, greater expansion than the capital.

There are provincial districts for the purpose of electing Sangguniang Panlalawigan ( Provincial Council ) members, which follow the congressional district arrangement, except that independent and highly urbanized cities whose charters prevent them from electing provincial officials are excluded.

Currently ISO 3166-2: TW lists 16 counties, 5 Provincial cities, and 2 special municipalities.

However, after the administrative divisions reformed in December 2010, the divisions in the defined area became 12 counties, 3 Provincial cities, and 5 special municipalities.

Provincial seal: According to legend the two cities of Phrae and Nan were once ruled by brothers.

Mayor Nicasio S. Valderroza was considered a builder of cities, having been variously a Provincial Treasurer, an acting Provincial Governor of the old Province of Zamboanga, Mayor of Baguio City, first Mayor of Zamboanga City, First Mayor of Davao City and the first appointed Mayor of the new City of Basilan.

* Provincial Council Chairman ( PCC ): Talib Muhammad Hasan Around 75 % of the population live in the major cities: Baqubah, Muqdadiyah and Khanaqin.

In the legal view, this province has three major cities of importance: Baraka ( Fizi Territory ), Bukavu ( Provincial Capital ) and Uvira ( Uvira Territory ).

Provincial councils for Muslim affairs existed in the provinces that had substantial Muslim minorities, and there were other links between the government and the Muslim community, including government financial assistance to Islamic education institutions, assistance with construction of some of the larger mosques, and the funding of pilgrimages by Thai Muslims to Mecca, both Bangkok and Hat Yai being primary gateway cities.

In some cities, the Provincial Legislation is supplemented by City by-laws.

Assisting the Commission are the Executive Director, Deputy Executive Directors for Administration and Operations, nine Department offices, 17 Regional Election Directors, 81 Provincial Election Supervisors and Election Officers in cities and municipalities.

Provinces or more formally Provincial level divisions are the first-level division within South Korea and it is divided into four groups: provinces, special self-governing province, special city, and metropolitan cities.

Capital cities ( otherwise known as Provincial centres ) of the Provinces of Iran.

* Cinder Cone ( British Columbia ), a cinder cone with a small crater on the west side of the Helm Glacier in Garibaldi Provincial Park

In one case, the Provincial Judges Reference ( 1997 ), it was found a law can be held invalid for contradicting unwritten principles, in this case judicial independence.

Since the summer of 2005 Lithuania has been part of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan ( ISAF ), leading a Provincial Reconstruction Team ( PRT ) in the town of Chaghcharan in the province of Ghor.

* After Provincial Superior Court a further appeal would go to the Provincial Court of Appeal ( e. g. the Court of Appeal of Alberta ), and then finally to the Supreme Court of Canada, but as a practical matter very few summary convictions are ever heard by the Supreme Court of Canada.

* Palazzo degli Scolopi, ( 17th century ), actually Provincial offices ;

The Old Conseil Delphinal became a Parlement ( the third one in France after the Parliaments of Paris and Toulouse ), strengthening the status of Grenoble as a Provincial capital.

In response, Arnauld wrote Théologie morale des Jésuites ( Moral Theology of the Jesuits ), which was the basis of most of the arguments later used by Pascal in his Provincial Letters denouncing the " relaxed morality " of Jesuitism.

Other important monuments are the Museum of Arts and Popular Customs, the International Museum of Naïf Art, San Andrés's Chapel, the Provincial Museum of Jaén ( which shelters an important collection of archaeological Iberian remains ), Saint Ildefonso's church, etc.

In the 1730s, a new mint building, called the Gubernskoye pravlenie ( Provincial Board ), was built in front of the old one

Six political parties have seats in the Provincial Council: Christian Democratic and Flemish / New-Flemish Alliance ( CD & V / N-VA, 25 seats ), Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats ( Open VLD, 17 seats ), Vlaams Belang ( 15 seats ), Socialist Party – Different-Spirit ( SP. A-Spirit, 14 seats ), Groen!

Provincial regulatory bodies are members of a national organization, the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects / L ' Association des Architectes Paysagistes du Canada ( CSLA-AAPC ), and individual membership in the CSLA-AAPC is obtained through joining one of the provincial or territorial components.

Manning Provincial Park ), or other forms of protected area.

Each province has its own unicameral legislature, with each member usually known as a Member of the Legislative Assembly ( MLA ), although in certain provinces they carry other titles: Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ) in Ontario ; Member of the National Assembly ( MNA ) in Quebec (); or Member of the House of Assembly ( MHA ) in Newfoundland and Labrador.

He also rearranged and strengthened the Provincial Marine ( responsible for transport on the lakes and rivers ), which led to the development of a naval force capable of holding the Great Lakes.

* Jonathan Singletary Dunham ( 1640 – 1724 ), Member of the New Jersey Provincial Congress, and President Barack Obama ’ s eighth great-grandfather, and the first of Obama ’ s ancestors to be born in North America.

In the same period ( 1946 – 1950 ), he was a member for the Dutch Labour Party of the Provincial States of North Holland and served on the town council of Heemstede.

* Three Sisters ( Carmanah Walbran ), a grove of trees in Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park famously photographed for posters promoting forest conservation

* Three Sisters ( Nova Scotia ), a rock formation along the shore of Cape Chignecto Provincial Park

The Foundation initiatives involve government ( Federal, Provincial and Municipal ), educators ( universities, elementary and middle schools ) and other not-for-profit organizations.

Provincial governors and other officials under the Imperial government transformed into a new class of daimyo ( feudal lords ), and bringing the archipelago into a period of 150 years of fractious disunity and war.

One of the most influential novels of the immediate post-war period was William Cooper's ( 1910-2002 ) naturalistic Scenes from Provincial Life ( 1950 ), which was a conscious rejection of the modernist tradition.

* Lord Upjohn, speaking of the allocation of beneficial interests between the parties under a constructive trust in National Provincial Bank Ltd v Ainsworth, said that the parties ' affairs are sometimes so inextricably intermixed that " an equitable knife must be used to sever the Gordian Knot ".

Private schools have sometimes been controversial, with some in the media and in Ontario's Provincial Ministry of Education claiming that a private education gives students an unfair advantage.

This drove him to seek military laurels in order to shore up his lack of field experience, sometimes leading the Provincial army on punitive expeditions over minor incidents that would have been better handled diplomatically by the district governors.

Provincial Courts in this sense are courts of limited statutory jurisdiction, sometimes referred to as " inferior courts.

LECOP ( sometimes written as a common word, Lecop ), stands for Letra de Cancelación de Obligaciones Provinciales (" Letter of Cancellation of Provincial Obligations ").

What remains now includes fragments of a knight and a re-used Roman relief, while in the Provincial Gallery of Bari there are a head fragment and a cloaked, headless bust, sometimes interpreted as Frederick II.

He had a large share in collecting the materials for Pascal's Provincial Letters ( 1656 ); in 1658 he translated the Letters into Latin, under the pseudonym of Nicholas Wendrock.

He translated Blaise Pascal's Provincial Letters in 1657, under the title of Les Provinciales, or the Mystery of Jesuitisme, discovered in certain letters written upon occasion of the present differences at Sorbonne between the jansenists and the molinists, London, Royston, 1657 ).

She also translated Laboulaye's Fairy Book, Jean Macé's Fairy Tales and Blaise Pascal's Lettres provinciales ( Provincial Letters ).