The new name was later accepted by the provincial bureaucrats and soon became commonly used by residents and visitors.

The man who became Ozymandias was the grandson of Ramesses I, a solid figure, but essentially a provincial bureaucrat who had had greatness thrust upon him.

My father was just a minor provincial bureaucrat.

A few months later, as a Global Volunteer, she went to Poland and taught English to children and to female provincial bureaucrats.

In the allegorical opera, the architect is portrayed as an artistic hero summoned from the Old World to the New by cultural aspirants, but ambushed by philistine provincial bureaucrats.

In "Qiu Ju," the hugely pregnant heroine, played by Gong Li, demands satisfaction from provincial bureaucrats after her husband is assaulted by a local official.

These provincial bureaucrats have a very hazy picture of Gorbachev's programs of "acceleration" and "reorganization."

Instead, Mr. Zhao's political apprenticeship came as a provincial bureaucrat.

Others allege that he treated provincial bureaucrats with contempt, and ran his ministries in a highly centralized manner.

Underpaid and undersupplied, provincial bureaucrats have abdicated most responsibilities to foreign charities.