(n.) The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing.
(n.) A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc.
(n.) Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract.
(v. t.) To divide into districts or limited portions of territory; as, legislatures district States for the choice of representatives.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, their distribution in various ethnic groups residing in different districts of Rajasthan state (Western-India) is also reviewed.
(2) The district’s $110bn of economic activity went up by 22% since 2007, outpacing city growth by 9% during the same period.
(3) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(4) There was a negative connection between the measure of total induced abortions in 1986 and the relative increase of abortions in the districts during 1986-87.
(5) Fifty-four cases were analysed, and a two-fold excess of clustering within one year was observed, both within single districts and between adjacent districts.
(6) The District became a byword for crime and drug abuse, while its “mayor for life” lived high on the hog and lurched cheerfully from one scandal to the next.
(7) Asked if his donation to Filner, who has a district about 2,500 miles from where Sharif lives, was because of his position on Iran and the MEK, Sharif said that it was.
(8) A nutritional field survey was undertaken in 11 rural districts of Kwazulu.
(9) Cheers, then, to an apparent alliance of the NME, a few people in London's trendy E1 district and some dumb young musicians, because "New Rave" is upon us, and there is apparently no stopping it.
(10) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
(11) "Today a federal district court put up a roadblock on a path constructed by 21 federal court rulings over the last year – a path that inevitably leads to nationwide marriage equality," said Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign.
(12) We suggest that sick districts can be affirmed on the basis of the total amount of fluoride intake, the prevalence rates of dental fluorosis, bad incomplete teeth, milk-teeth and the mean output of urinary fluoride between 8 and 15 years of age.
(13) In 10th district of Budapest a longitudinal, epidemiological examination was started in 1975 with the aim of analysis of the objective factors influencing the population screening and determination of possibilities of screening effectiveness.
(14) Under Lynch, the eastern district is currently prosecuting at least five cases relating to the prostitution of US minors or sex trafficking – more active prosecutions than any other US attorney’s office in the country, according to knowledgeable observers.
(15) After sterilisation of mentally diseased patients had been legally enforced and finances were restricted, family care stagnated, promoting instead a type of family care that was independent of psychiatric hospitals and was carried out on a "district" basis.
(16) Iraqi police have also executed detainees in Tal Afar and government-allied militias opened fire on a mosque in the Khanaqin district northeast of Baghdad killing 73 men and boys, Pansieri said.
(17) Almost one quarter of all deaths among residents of Camberwell District Health Authority during 1990 occurred without the district ('transferable deaths').
(18) There is a wide range of performance at state and district level.
(19) Michael Garcia, the former New York district attorney appointed to investigate the 2018 and 2022 votes, will deliver his report in seven weeks.
(20) The aim of this study was to compare the predictive power of a simple illness severity score (Clinical Sickness Score) to that of APACHE II in a District General Hospital intensive therapy unit.
Hamlet
Definition:
(n.) A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michael James, 52, from Tower Hamlets Three days after telling his landlord that the flat upstairs was a deathtrap, Michael James was handed an eviction notice.
(2) Hope was living in a disused council building in Tower Hamlets, east London, and, by maintaining a physical presence on site, providing services for a property guardian company called Newbould Guardians.
(3) As such, only in localised situations, where a popular revolt has long been brewing against cartel politics – Tower Hamlets or Bradford, for instance – has the left made a breakthrough.
(4) We deplore the proposal of the secretary of state Eric Pickles to “take over” the democratically elected council in Tower Hamlets ( Report , 5 November).
(5) Hamlet, the prototype of inaction, the man who thinks "too precisely on the event", and who, when he does act, unleashes a bloodbath.
(6) Later, Dizzee Rascal drew big crowds in Tower Hamlets as he ran through the streets where he grew up, throwing his trainers into the throng and running in his socks.
(7) Ten minutes' walk away is the wonderful Blaise Hamlet (open dawn until dusk).
(8) 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.
(9) The form of QE we propose by contrast would provide job security and local business opportunities and rebalance the economy, since its infrastructure improvements would take place in every city, town, village and hamlet in the UK.
(10) Best Shakespeare productions: what's your favourite Hamlet?
(11) He also appeared in a number of Branagh's films including Much Ado About Nothing (1993) and as Polonius in Hamlet (1996).
(12) Newer communities have settled in towns and cities such as Milton Keynes, Slough, Northampton, Southampton, and in London, notably Ealing, Tower Hamlets and Newham.
(13) The study population of 130,000 consisted mainly of subsistence cultivators who live in remote hamlets, and included about 27,600 women between the ages of 15 and 49 years.
(14) 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.
(15) He owed his late-flourishing film career to Branagh, appearing in a string of his movies: as Bardolph in Henry V (1989), Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing (1993), the old blind man in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), a cantankerous old thespian in A Midwinter's Tale (1995), Polonius in Hamlet (1996) and Sir Nathaniel in the musical Love's Labour's Lost (2000).
(16) The LGA was called in to help Tower Hamlets with the appointment of staff last year when several members departed.
(17) Subsequently, he returned to cameo roles in films as diverse as the comedy Bean (1997) and Kenneth Branagh's all-star version of Hamlet (1996).
(18) A south Londoner, she left her Catholic grammar school in Tower Hamlets with little clear idea of what to do.
(19) The letter to Morgan also noted that improvements were being seen in schools in Birmingham and Tower Hamlets inspected in the wake of the Trojan Horse allegations of Islamist influence.
(20) And, among several Hamlets on film, my favourite remains Gregory Kozintsev's 1971 version , which reminded us that Hamlet is only one figure in a bustling, hyperactive court.