1.   The eastern provinces are likely to rebel if they are not given more freedom.

2.   The troubled province is a hotbed of ethnic violence.

3.   This province is the homeland of the Halflings, where they live under their own government and laws.

4.   Since the province was a hotbed of gentry resistance to the emancipation, confrontation looked a real possibility.

5.   After all he is no more than the chief executive officer of government, his province is not to make but to execute the laws.

6.   At least nine provinces are on the brink of HIV epidemics, the United Nations said.

7.   Attorney General John Ashcroft, the minister whose province was once merely justice, has become our self-help counselor.

8.   Cases of Kandahar businessmen having been killed or having disappeared in Herat province have also been reported, government officials here say.

9.   Ever since, the province has been the scene of repeated uprisings by Catholics.