district
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According to members of the Friends group, district officials took down the notices and then blocked inspectors from school property.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
One Vietnamese shop owner in the Mitte district near the former Berlin Wall rolls down his shutter but leaves his door ajar for locals, who know to sneak in for milk and vegetables.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Meanwhile, the district produced a modified plan that would spare some — either 57 or 47 — of the 84 remaining uncut trees, Friends member Jennifer LaPlante said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Sam Forstag, a 31-year-old union leader and former smokejumper - a person who parachutes in to fight forest fires - just won the Democratic nomination for Montana's 1st congressional district, defeating a more establishment candidate.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
“Is this how you won the district competition, Jake? By cheating?”
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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In several districts across the country, organizations reported they were relying less on the federal government amid changes to rules and funding levels.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Alongside the development of artificial pitches, Grottland cited a "revolution" in the period 2010-2020, "where Norwegian football, the top clubs, the federations and the districts started to invest heavily in player development".
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
However, these scores did surpass pre-pandemic levels last year — which is more than most California school districts can claim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Local governments offered generous tax breaks and other incentives to help revitalize office districts and other downtrodden neighborhoods with these converted apartment towers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
After the war, the Capitol destroyed all the nests surrounding their city, but the ones near the districts were left untouched.
From "The Hunger Games" 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
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
Is choosing a more diverse school worth requesting the transfer, or should we stick with our districted school?
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 Haviland, Laura S.
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
“I see the argument on the other side — a state interest in independent districting commissions. But as I read this, it is about districting in Los Angeles,” Chemerinsky said via email.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
"Better say a Gerrymander," returned the editor, alluding to Elbridge Gerry, the Republican governor who had signed the districting act.
From A School History of the United States by McMaster, John Bach
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