1.  The central bureaucracy was embryonic and his provincial officials were spread wafer-thin and proved very difficult to supervise.

2.  This body meets provincial officials and lobbies on province-wide issues.

3.  And key provincial officials have been too busy battling the Taliban pockets and rounding up pro-Taliban Arab and Pakistani fighters to discuss the issue, Haq said.

4.  And when it came to transforming the girls into a tourist lure, he and provincial officials proved themselves far more adept than the father.

5.  Expelled students are reinstated by provincial educational officials when they are paid off by parents, he said.

6.  He and provincial officials wasted no time in profiting from the celebrity of the quints.

7.  Henan provincial officials are still trying to cover up the facts, according to the Beijing Legal News.

8.  It is abandoning old practices that allowed the banks to make cozy deals with provincial officials while paying little regard to creditworthiness.

9.  Landry has tried to reverse his political fortunes by announcing a new ethics directive that bars senior provincial officials from lobbying the government for two years after leaving office.

10.  Lopez had been counting on support from provincial officials, although he said four other local governments in Spain had offered to take his factory.