district
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"What I'm hoping to accomplish is that children in rural India should at least get a dignified education," said Dipke during a visit to a school in Maharashtra's Hingoli district.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
In addition to proportioning congressional seats, census results are also used to distribute federal funds and within each state to redraw congressional, legislative and local election district lines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
At the time, the district attorney said he was weighing whether to seek the death penalty.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Michael Schneider, of the bike lane and safe streets advocacy group Streets for All, believes the project could transform the area and bring more people to the business district.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
So, without directions of any sort, the Baudelaire children set off for the city’s banking district in hopes of finding Mr. Poe.
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
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Short rentals account for only about 1.2 percent of the European Union's housing stock but the share can reach as much as 20 percent in popular districts of some tourist destinations, according to EU data.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
The redrawn districts can’t be used unless voters approve them in a ballot referendum, the state court said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
“People definitely want to know more about what their water districts are doing to be prepared for wildfires, so that they don’t prematurely run out of water,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
"The tourism sector is going to suffer from this disaster," said Sunil Sharma of Nepal's National Tourism Agency, even though "only four districts" were directly affected.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Riis had toured Chicago’s foulest districts and pronounced them worse than anything he had seen in New York.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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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
"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 John Bach McMaster
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