21.   It is an unremarkable provincial town where some relatives of the ruling clique still live, at least part time.

22.   It is so beautifully acted that the cast, especially the nonprofessional actors playing the embattled factory workers, seems plucked from the streets of a provincial French town.

23.   Like thousands of provincial towns in the former Soviet Union, Vyatskiye Polyany is a tight-knit community in surly decline.

24.   Many of those killed here are journalists in far-flung provincial towns, communities where the state presence is weak and criminal networks rule.

25.   Other regional airlines, such as Air One and Air Sicily, serve provincial towns.

26.   One of them, Mehmet Pere, a newspaper editor from a provincial town, stopped to see the portrait during a recent visit to Istanbul.

27.   Provincial towns like Kragujevac, Nis and Cacak are seething with discontent, and threaten to displace Belgrade and multiethnic Novi Sad as the main bastions of dissent.

28.   Reform candidates attracted support not just among women and young people, but among more traditional voters in provincial towns and religious centers as well.

29.   She spent her adolescence in Toronto, recalled as a provincial town, and was lured into the literary life by the Canadian Bohemia she discovered as an undergraduate.

30.   That explains why Iranian diplomats were stationed in a militia-held provincial town that fell to Taliban forces last month.