(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.
Redistrict
Definition:
(v. t.) To divide into new districts.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the Texas case, which relates to redistricting, the Justice Department is filing what is known as a statement of interest, in support of the private groups that have filed suit.
(2) "The court's decision today and the decision earlier this week on the Texas redistricting plans not only reaffirm – but help protect – the vital role the voting rights act plays in our society to ensure that every American has the right to vote and to have that vote counted," he said.
(3) Golden’s district is now the 16th, following redistricting.
(4) Oh, and she became the most visible state legislator in the country last night after surviving a redistricting challenge in 2011 that was only beat back by her use of a suit under the Voting Rights Act.
(5) He mentions a case from last year in which Latino voters were discriminated against (the Texas redistricting map.)
(6) Redistricting maps passed by the Legislature may also take effect without approval from the federal government.” 6.06pm BST You can read Holder's statement here.
(7) The results were statistically significant and indicated that: 1) increases correspond to a decrease in the amount of extracellular water; 2) decreases represent intracellular water loss and subsequent transfer of water to the circulation; 3) diuretics lead to redistriction of water in the body.
(8) His friend Eric Holder, the former attorney general, said this week he had been talking to the former president about helping the new National Democratic Redistricting Committee, which will aim to combat Republican gerrymandering in the drawing of electoral maps.
(9) Yet, in light of the Shelby County decision, the Supreme Court discarded the lower court's Texas voter ID ruling , and threw out a ruling that found Texas' state redistricting maps were "enacted with discriminatory purpose" and diluted the Latino vote .
(10) Redistricting, in which constituency boundaries are redrawn, is polarising politics.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Congressman Meadows at a Tea Party rally But he won by a large majority, benefiting from a redistricting of the electoral boundaries that transformed the district, formerly Democratic, into a Republican stronghold.
(12) My own math , taking into account redistricting in 2011, says a 3pt Democratic win in the national vote and a takeover of the House would not be nearly as likely as in 2006; but a 4 or 5pt victory would probably do the trick.
(13) Experts predict that legislative redistricting and budget stretching will dominate the 72nd session of the Texas Legislature, convening January 8 in Austin.
(14) The GOP kept Latinos and black voters out of the redistricting process, added only one minority district, and manipulated an electoral map "that would look Hispanic, but perform for Anglos".