What's the difference between municipal and township?

Municipal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government; as, municipal rights; municipal officers.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a state, kingdom, or nation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
  • (2) A minimum of 4 sheeps' heads, obtained weekly over 24 months from the Pretoria Municipal Abattoir, was examined for infestation.
  • (3) In 2013, the town’s municipal court generated $221,164 (or $387 for each of its residents), with much of the fees coming from ticketing non-residents.
  • (4) The doses were calculated as average monthly doses for each of 454 municipalities during 36 consecutive months after the accident in spring 1986.
  • (5) Since July 1, 1990, Nalbuphine has been used as an obstetric analgesia at the Municipal Women's Hospital in Cologne-Holweide.
  • (6) As corruption consistently ranks as a top concern for Spaniards, second only to unemployment, and with an eye on upcoming municipal and regional elections in the spring, Spain’s political parties have been keen to appear as if they are tackling the issue.
  • (7) 131 cases of the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) among infants born in the Municipality of Copenhagen during 1956--1971 were analysed on the basis of data collected prospectively by the infant health visitors and abstracted from police reports.
  • (8) In a cohort of 99 families with a newborn infant in a multi-ethnic poor socio-economic municipality 35 mothers were depressed during the first year.
  • (9) A study was carried out on the basis of research data of the deaths due to all kinds of accidents and violence of 550 children of less than 15 years of age, resident in the municipality of S. Paulo, State of S. Paulo, Brazil, which occurred during 1985.
  • (10) Conservatives have called for federal funding to be curtailed if a municipality maintains a “sanctuary” policy.
  • (11) Distribution of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in sewage wastes at a municipal sewage treatment plant was studied, showing that the great bulk of PCBs entering such a treatment plant become adsorbed onto the grit chamber solids and the sludge that is passed from the anaerobic digesters.
  • (12) One of the more controversial American public health issues is fluoridation of municipal water supplies.
  • (13) In the municipality of Ostersund, Sweden, we have developed five courses for school personnel concerning children and health.
  • (14) Rangoon's top municipal officials understand the problem.
  • (15) Phage-type patterns and antibiotic susceptibility have been examined in 904 Staphylococcus aureus strains from general practice in the Copenhagen municipality, in 1107 strains from hospitals in the Copenhagen municipality and in 18,028 strains isolated in 1988 from inpatients all over Denmark.
  • (16) A small municipality of about 2,000 inhabitants on a large plain (that of the river Po, which flows across the whole of Northern Italy) was chosen as a model to study the level of genetic isolation of a population which is not delimited by clear geographical barriers.
  • (17) Monitoring the landfill site is necessary; there has been a trend to recognize that municipal solid wastes may be hazardous and to provide separate secure handling, treatment, and disposal for their dangerous constituents.
  • (18) State, regional and municipal public administrations remain politicised and ridden by patronage.
  • (19) The exiled municipal authorities agreed – perhaps sealing the fate of the city even should it be cleared one day for repopulation.
  • (20) The hypothesis that low-level lead absorption is a risk factor for learning disabilities in school children was examined in the municipality of Aarhus, Denmark.

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.