district
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The district denies the charges in the pending case.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
He reached his longtime perch in the district attorney’s office’s major crimes unit after a lifetime of struggle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Doctor Hitler Alba Sanchez was elected mayor of Yungar, another Andean district, in 2018, saying he was "the good Hitler".
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
The Devon fund, worth about £8.4m a year, is available through district councils, and is targeted at low‑income households facing an "essential cost they cannot afford".
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
“Proud of you? You applied to transfer to a school in her district and you didn’t tell me. That’s called lying, Lexie.”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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The parent furor has led some districts, including New York City and Los Angeles, to impose moratoriums on student use of AI in the classroom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Protests began outside state schools in the capital, Baku, and in several southern districts including Masally and Jalilabad.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
If a home’s value is below the exemption level, they would not owe taxes to their city, county or special districts.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
Voter registration records are based on a person’s physical residential address, which determines the districts where they can vote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
We are all in place as the anthem begins to play and the annual recap of the reaping ceremonies in the twelve districts begins.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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“Plaintiffs’ novel proposal is that we dismantle Georgia’s statewide PSC system and replace it with an entirely new districted system,” the court wrote.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023
As school districted switched to distance learning in March, the nonprofit Partnership for Connecticut spent $24 million to provide 60,000 laptops to high school students.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 2, 2020
Is choosing a more diverse school worth requesting the transfer, or should we stick with our districted school?
From Slate ● Jan. 19, 2020
Less important but still a concern: Only one of our daughter’s friends from day care will attend the school that we are districted for.
From Slate ● Jan. 19, 2020
They districted the city, appointed a large investigating committee, and gave tickets calling for the articles most needed in the families found in a suffering condition.
From A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences by Laura S. Haviland
In Allen, the post-Callais case concerning Alabama’s effort to undo Black representation, and in an early Texas districting case, Abbott v.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026
The justices further acknowledged the emergence of robust two-party competition and the increasing sophistication of computer-generated districting maps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
In 1986, the court articulated a test for determining when election districting is racially discriminatory.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
“A districting plan must comply with the broader constitutional standard of upholding the right to vote on equal terms and to substantially equal voting power,” Associate Justice Robin Hudson wrote in the prevailing opinion.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 16, 2022
Of course it was difficult to determine routes of travel there, and to a large extent that had to be left to the supervisors, but they merely revised our original districting.
From The Boy With the U.S. Census by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
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