1.   Beijing considers Taiwan to be a rebellious province but also an inalienable part of Chinese territory that it will wage war to keep.

2.   Because of his appeal and his support for peace agreements with southern rebel factions, he was often sent to rebellious provinces to shore up support for the government.

3.   A Russian-controlled pipeline from Baku traverses Chechnya, a rebellious province being pounded by the Russian military.

4.   China maintains that Taiwan is a rebellious province and has pledged it would take military action to prevent any move toward independence.

5.   Chinese leaders fear that the precedent of international intervention over a rebellious province could easily be applied to Taiwan.

6.   Milosevic had already begun a vicious campaign of repression in his rebellious province before the bombing.

7.   Of course, the West is not asking Milosevic to give up Kosovo, but to allow NATO troops in to help him keep the rebellious province within Yugoslavia.

8.   One of the worst engagements here did not involve government troops at all and illustrated the trouble Kabila might have holding the rebellious province together.

9.   The Georgians would like nothing better than to stay out of the fighting in the rebellious Russian province to the north.

10.   This body recently studied reports of atrocities in Aceh, a perennially rebellious Indonesia province at the northern tip of Sumatra, and issued a strong report.