What's the difference between arrondissement and borough?

Arrondissement


Definition:

  • (n.) A subdivision of a department.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) De Bruijn also described the attack on Facebook: "Last night, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, Olivier and I were badly beaten up just for walking arm in arm.
  • (2) Investigators are also considering whether he planned to carry out his own suicide attack in the 18th arrondissement of the French capital, and perhaps backed out.
  • (3) The three men - described by a police union spokesman as “commandos” – are on the run after walking into the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris’s 11th arrondissement at about midday on Wednesday and fleeing in a getaway car driven by a fourth.
  • (4) Paris’s 10th and 11th arrondissements are full on Fridays, and home also to the Bataclan, a pagoda-like theatre painted in vivid yellows, reds and citruses, which looms over the Boulevard Voltaire like an eccentric aunt.
  • (5) - video explainer An Isis statement about the evening’s bloodshed claimed an attack in the 18th arrondissement, where none took place, but investigators did find a suicide belt and car linked to Abdeslam.
  • (6) Tour Montparnasse, Paris Photograph: Steven Strehl When it opened in 1973, towering over the 14th and 15th arrondissements in the south of the capital, almost no one had a good word to say about the first – and only – skyscraper to rise in central Paris.
  • (7) He has already indicated that we would rather live with Trierweiler in their modest nondescript flat in Paris's 15th arrondissement with its Ikea furniture than the 370-room Elysée Palace with its private cinema and 900 staff, including white-gloved factotums who set the pendulums on its scores of gold clocks.
  • (8) The 16th arrondissement of Paris has only around 2.5% of its properties designated as council housing, far short of the 20% required by law.
  • (9) Television cameraman Charles Pitt said he was outside a cafe in the city’s 11th arrondissement where people were shot at about 9.10pm.
  • (10) At Aux Délices du Palais, customers in the long queue snaking to the door in the 14th arrondissement agreed that Teixeira and his family made exceedingly good bread, not to mention excellent macarons – for which they have also won prizes – and mouthwatering pâtisserie.
  • (11) Le Bataclan, in the 11th arrondissement, was hosting a show by Eagles of Death Metal in front of a crowd of around 1,500 when three terrorists armed with assault rifles entered the room and began shooting and throwing hand grenades.
  • (12) The following year, we were away for eight months – Ben was offered a post-doctoral fellowship in Italy and, when that finished, we moved to Paris because it was cheaper to rent an Airbnb property in the 20th arrondissement and commute to London once a week via Eurostar than it was to rent a flat in as good a location as our place in the UK.
  • (13) A fter a midnight appearance on stage among rock singers and party stalwarts at Paris's Bastille to address the crowds gathered to celebrate his election, François Hollande , who has so far stayed true to his "Mr Normal" reputation, arrived back at his nondescript, modern apartment building in Paris's 15th arrondissement at 2am, ready to start work as France's new president-elect.
  • (14) The well-developed community psychiatric services in the 13th Arrondissement use a large number of places in sheltered accommodation.
  • (15) Photograph: AP After allegedly dropping three of the suicide bombers off at the Stade de France on the 13 November, he headed for the Place Albert Kahn in the 18th arrondissement of the French capital, where he bought a mobile phone sim card at about 10pm.
  • (16) It is significant that in the omnibus film Paris Vu Par … (Six in Paris, 1964), Chabrol's episode takes place in the upmarket 16th arrondissement with Chabrol himself playing the self-satisfied père de famille .
  • (17) He introduced into his beautiful capital trees and flowers, and populated it with statues.” Story of cities #13: Barcelona's unloved planner invents science of 'urbanisation' Read more Today, Haussmann is remembered by the grand boulevard that bears his name, on which the Palais Garnier sits, and a statue on its corner with Rue de Laborde in the 8th Arrondissement.
  • (18) In the summer, two miles (3.3km) of highway from the Tuileries in the 1st arrondissement and the Arsenal port near Bastille in the 4th arrondissement along the right bank of the Seine were closed to traffic.
  • (19) They were panicked, wounded, screaming, blood was running all over them, people were having panic attacks, it was horrific.” The bar was locked down but after police allowed it to reopen, she began running down the street towards the 3rd arrondissement to get away as fast as possible.
  • (20) After a few minutes he ventured gingerly out into the street in Paris’s 10th arrondissement, packed minutes earlier with diners, revellers, and friends enjoying an end of week beer.

Borough


Definition:

  • (n.) In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
  • (n.) The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.
  • (n.) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.
  • (n.) The pledge or surety thus given.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a barely-noticed submission to the government's Environmental Audit Committee, the London borough of Hounslow, the airport's near neighbours, said the airport was: breaching the World Health Organisation's guidelines for the levels for noise in people's bedrooms; breaching the EU guidelines for levels of nitrogen dioxide; and breaching British standards on the noise experienced by children in classrooms.
  • (2) Because of her son's disability she has been told the council will try to find her something cheaper within the borough, but for the moment nothing suitable has been found and the hotel room has been booked until next week, costing Hammersmith and Fulham council about £69 a night for each of the two rooms.
  • (3) The restaurant was already castigated by Channel Four News for serving £4 bowls of cereal in a borough in which thousands of poor families can’t afford to feed their children.
  • (4) Kieron Williams is head of health and wellbeing, adults and community services, Lambeth borough council This article is published by Guardian Professional.
  • (5) Two London boroughs will be chosen as pilot schemes to demonstrate how better school food can improve health and educational performance.
  • (6) However, deeper analysis suggests that the patient vote was independent of the borough of residence, tending to be more Democratic-Liberal and less Republican-Conservative.
  • (7) The council had been politically unstable and divided, and although parents were voting with their feet – less than half were choosing to send their children to the borough's secondary schools – there was a widespread feeling that nothing could be done, that the borough's failings were irrevocable.
  • (8) How do you draw a supportive social services ring around these families if they are forced as a result of housing benefit caps to move miles away to different boroughs and schools, or downsize into an overcrowded flat?
  • (9) In a 2010 essay, Berman wrote of visiting the Bronx again, with trepidation, fearing that the borough's notorious self-immolation would have left nothing of the world he remembered.
  • (10) Although it had been anticipated that affordable private rents in expensive inner city areas such as Westminster would be scarce, the acute housing shortage in the capital means market rents outstrip benefit cap levels in cheaper outer London boroughs including Haringey, Waltham Forest, and Barking and Dagenham.
  • (11) In September 1974 a study was made of all residents of the East London Borough of Tower Hamlets, aged 65 or more, who were known to have been receiving continuous medical and nursing care in hospital for more than a year.
  • (12) The Bronx, a borough of New York City with 1.16 million people, has a distinctive pattern of prevalence and distribution of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), i.e., 62.2% of AIDS patients are intravenous drug users, 20.3% are female, 87.3% are black or Hispanic, and 4.5% are children under age 13 years.
  • (13) In this, Locog has learned from and been supported by the initiative of the London boroughs that host the Olympic sites, in particular Newham, in which the main park is located.
  • (14) Godfrey Olson , the leader of the Tory group on the borough council, summed up the relationship between his party and the Lib Dems as "confrontational".
  • (15) Reading, a rapidly growing borough, has recently borrowed £34m for new school buildings, while Essex council has had to find £38m for the same reason.
  • (16) A Scotland Yard statement said: "On Friday 4 April the Metropolitan Police Service received three files of material from the Department for Communities and Local Government relating to the London borough of Tower Hamlets.
  • (17) We tend to live in the cheaper parts of the city, so we're less affected than those in the more affluent boroughs.
  • (18) People don’t have sex within only one borough – an example of why balkanisation is more expensive than collectivism The immediate anxiety was that elected officials are often not public health experts: you might get a very enlightened council, who understood the needs of the disenfranchised and prioritised them; or you might get a bunch of puffed-up moralists who spent their syphilis budget on a new aqua aerobics provision for the overweight.
  • (19) They are dealt with on a case-by-case basis by individual boroughs.” However, Aaron Schoenberger, CEO of Beverly Hills-based social-media threat-assessment company Soteria, can offer some insight.
  • (20) Kids Company has a drop-in service in Camden, north London, where the council is planning to move poor families out of the borough because the coalition's benefit cap will make paying for housing impossible.

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