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Provincial Council

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noun

  1. (formerly) a council administering any of the New Zealand provinces

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The appointment, which came late on Tuesday and was announced by Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujaihid, named Habibullah Agha, the current head of Kandahar Provincial Council, as the new education minister, replacing Noorullah Munir.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2022

On Feb. 29, the Ninevah Provincial Council voted against their participation in the operations to liberate the city.

From US News • Mar. 31, 2016

“We have received more than 500 complaints from people, by telephone and by people coming in to the provincial governor’s office,” Mohammed Rafiq Wardak, head of the Provincial Council, tells TIME.

From Time • Feb. 28, 2013

Najibulla Khaliqyar, the head of the Provincial Council of Takhar, agrees Qataghany and others are diverting rivers for power.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2012

When the Sixth Provincial Council convened at Baltimore, in May, 1846, which he attended with his coadjutor, he urged a division of his diocese, the necessity of which Bishop McCloskey could attest.

From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 by Various

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