(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.
Township
Definition:
(n.) The district or territory of a town.
(n.) In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections.
(n.) In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county.
Example Sentences:
(1) A community health survey of 923 residents aged 30 years or more was performed in Putai Township of Taiwan.
(2) Free Tibet said the men had objected to the arrest of a Tibetan called Thubwang for his part in a protest in Tagkhar township on 25 January, in which local residents marched to the government offices and pulled down a Chinese flag.
(3) Innovative techniques were used to help the field workers to understand and apply the concept of randomization to the streets and houses of their Township.
(4) Starting in Latin America, Asia and Africa, working with developers whose customers live in the favelas and shanty towns and townships, Mozilla aims to foment revolution which, if it succeeds, will filter back to the west.
(5) My work entailed travelling throughout the country, living now in African townships, then in country villages and again in cities.
(6) The strategic locations are: Stratford, in east London, which is seen as an emerging Olympic city and centrepiece of the country's bid for the 2012 Olympics; Greenwich and Woolwich, involving new and rebuilt communities near the floundering millennium dome site; Barking, where work has already begun on a new township; Thurrock in Essex, involving a new urban development corporation with sweeping planning powers, and North Kent Thameside, between Dartford and Gravesend, which embraces Ebbsfleet.
(7) To determine the impact of the political violence on health and health services, selected routinely available information was analyzed, a community survey was conducted of 1,540 randomly selected households in high, medium, and low impact areas (defined using police and community reports), and a survey of 162 nurses (75 per cent response rate) working in clinic and maternity services in Cape Town's townships was undertaken.
(8) During the 1st year, MCH workers sought pregnant mothers and brought them to the township center for antenatal care early in their pregnancies.
(9) It dismays Kirk that Warp moved to London but he's still in touch with them and their releases, effusing particularly about DJ Mujava and "Township Funk".
(10) A total of 3519 and 3739 individuals were examined in each township.
(11) Aedes aegypti is found to be highly prevalent both in rural and urban areas of almost every major town and townships below 900 meters.
(12) Originally planned as a community of 200,000, the population now numbers around one million, half of whom live in informal housing, making it one of the biggest and fastest growing townships in the country.
(13) For village A, there was more than a twofold association both with residence in the township for 55 years or more and with living in a particular area within the village.
(14) Primary health workers made more mistakes in diagnosis (66.67%) and treatment (78.18%) compared with those made by township doctors and county doctors.
(15) A study was undertaken to ascertain the vaccination coverage of children aged 12-23 months living in Khayelitsha, a peri-urban township outside Cape Town, and to identify factors associated with measles vaccination coverage.
(16) There was a smaller group of black spectators from a nearby township, determined to show they could now stand where they pleased.
(17) The central question always legitimately asked of a country grappling to forge its post-apartheid future and deal with entrenched poverty, particularly in the black townships, is whether South Africa should really be spending £800m in public money hosting a football tournament.
(18) A three-year study has been conducted for prevention of infectious hepatitis with supplementation of table salt fortified with 15 ppm anhydrous sodium selenite to the general population of 20,847 persons in a township M.Z.
(19) "The government did not fund the empower shack, though they helped us speed up the approval process," said Andy Bolnick, founder of iKhayalami , the NGO that built the shack in Khayelitsha township.
(20) It's probably just a fire in one of the townships.” Following Torino, Seoul and Helsinki, Cape Town is the fourth city to be awarded the title of World Design Capital, an accolade bestowed by the Montreal-based International Council for Societies of Industrial Design , which charges a hefty fee to honour a different city with its logo each year.