noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
district attorney
district council
district court
district nurse
garment industry/factory/district etc
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She works in the garment district of Manhattan.
red-light district
school district
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
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The police fired teargas in the central shopping district to disperse the rioters, creating panic among shoppers.
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The city deserves a distinctive, central district to celebrate the arts, and itself.
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The office-vacancy rate in the Makati central commercial district is just 5%, and properties there yield nearly 10%.
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The protest added to momentum created during a larger demonstration Monday in the central business district .
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Its central business district had lost 41 percent of its retail volume over the previous 15 years.
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The central postal districts of six other major cities, including Birmingham and Manchester, will be similarly classified.
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You're minutes from the central business district via our complimentary London taxi shuttle.
congressional
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By November the unions aim to have 100 volunteers working for the Democrats in each of 75 congressional districts .
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A congressional district will hold about 625,000 Arizonans.
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The rest of the delegates are apportioned by congressional districts , with the winner of each district getting three delegates.
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Shaw v. Hunt: Oddly shaped congressional districts are unconstitutional if they were designed in order to ensure black voting majorities.
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Federal retirees would make a difference in close races in many sunbelt state congressional districts as well as Maryland and Virginia.
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Three congressional districts contain parts of the county; one district is represented by a Democrat and the two others by Republicans.
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Candidates get three delegates for each congressional district won, and 29 bonus delegates go to the overall statewide winner.
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He is especially strong in the first and second congressional districts that stretch from Pensacola to Jacksonville on the East Coast.
federal
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The decision was announced by federal district judge William Hoeveler at a pre-trial hearing on Jan. 11.
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The country is divided into 20 states, two federal territories, a federal district around the capital and 72 federal dependencies.
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The case bounced back and forth between a federal district judge and a court of appeals three times.
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Decisions of the federal district courts are reported in the Federal Supplement and are similarly cited.
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The federal district court, upon the request of the school board, ordered noninterference with desegregation.
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When prosecutors refused to disclose information about their procedures, a federal district judge dismissed the charges against the five defendants.
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The suit was dismissed last month by a federal district judge.
financial
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The feasibility studies were very hastily carried out, however, and financial assumptions which district planners were working on were unclear.
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He continued to the financial district .
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San Francisco saw demonstrators gathering at the heart of its financial district .
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By 2008 the artists' sketches of a red-roofed, neo-Levantine financial district will have become reality.
large
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A similar number of referrals came, however, from nearby large district general hospitals.
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Among other large districts , the 64, 000-student San Francisco Unified has one administrator for every 16. 5 teachers.
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But larger districts are usually fairer than small.
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Meanwhile, the cyber gods controlling the random selection virtually ignored some large districts in other areas of the state.
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Council leaders will in turn sit on larger district bodies, and will have all-important control of police and local bureaucrats.
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A receptionist in a new, busy and large district hospital.
light
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We were staying in a seedy hotel in San Francisco close to the red light district .
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In the red light district he won his fame.
local
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In my area the local district council is Labour controlled.
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One of the most widely available resources are adult-education classes run by local school districts or community colleges.
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Some universities fund crèches for their students; other crèches are supported by local district or county councils.
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With funding from the Ford Foundation, it created local school districts in three neighborhoods.
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The meat men come from all over the country and transport the ponies back to their local district to sell them.
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Attorney General Brewster made an attempt to punish the violators by ordering the local district attorney to make arrests.
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State laws or local district policies usually allow teachers to be absent from school for the major holidays of recognized religions.
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The careful coordination of services and programs to ensure that they meet local district needs. 3.
metropolitan
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In metropolitan areas the districts are responsible for education, social services and libraries.
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For example, non-metropolitan counties and metropolitan districts are required to appoint chief education officers and directors of social services.
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These were designated as metropolitan areas and were given a two-tier structure of metropolitan counties and districts .
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In most years, the Labour Party also controls most of the metropolitan districts .
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The Conservatives' success in Solihull gave them control of their first metropolitan district council since 1995.
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It would be a mistake to identify the metropolitan districts as urban-industrial and the periphery as rural.
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As such it complements the introduction of unitary development plans for the metropolitan districts .
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Between 1974 and 1986 there were also metropolitan counties, but these were abolished and their powers passed to metropolitan district authorities.
poor
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A large upper floor in their poor district only cost three guilders a week.
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That means poorer school districts get deeper discounts.
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Since the 70s they have piled up in Kingston's poor districts , usually at election time.
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It is unclear, too, whether any plan would satisfy the poorer districts .
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Once more, the poorest districts could least afford provision from their own funds.
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By then, we felt sufficiently established to begin work with women in the poorest districts of San Salvador.
red
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We were staying in a seedy hotel in San Francisco close to the red light district .
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To be on the business side of boxing is to spend much of your time in the red light district of sports.
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Do you know what the odds are against a house catching fire in the Red Triangle district of Bes Pelargic?
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In the red light district he won his fame.
rural
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District councils came into being as a result of the 1974 legislation which, interalia, abolished rural district councils.
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No one living in a rural district can altogether escape the indirect power of these influences.
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The district of Copeland includes the rural districts of Ennerdale and Millom where some of the greatest fall-out occurred.
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Officials in rural districts covering a large area may drive long distances to perform their regular duties.
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A preference for country living is clear, and in some remoter rural districts there was even a significant growth in population.
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In many rural districts provision was still patchy and enforcement of attendance sporadic.
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The corporation and the rural district council were in dispute about who should rehouse them.
urban
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It was the ordinary police who prevented a complete collapse of law and order in the loyalist urban districts of Belfast.
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The influx of fresh cash did enable Richmond Unified to become a model urban school district .
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At one time there were no urban districts - they simply grow up around commercial and industrial interests.
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By 1935 the population of the urban districts had grown to 295,000.
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Within county areas, urban and rural districts to be created; 5.
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The less-urbanized areas acquired a two-tier system of county government, accompanied by lower-tier urban and rural districts .
■ NOUN
attorney
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Keating was arrested on Sept. 18 after the Los Angeles district attorney issued a 42-count state indictment against him and three others.
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The district attorney has a videotape of you making that confession!
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He is now the district attorney of San Francisco, Terence Hallinan.
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Steen is very good as the besieged district attorney and Theron just eats up the screen.
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But later Monday the district attorney said he had not discussed the matter with the coroner since his election in December.
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The Bronx district attorney had argued that the policemen acted recklessly and were at fault.
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The agency probably will recommend that the district attorney file misdemeanor animal cruelty and neglect charges against Broden, she said.
business
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Beyond its business district , the community has a strong residential base that includes a sizable percentage of retirees.
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The worst area was Downtown, a 25-square-block warehouse district that made up the eastern third of the business district.
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You're minutes from the central business district via our complimentary London taxi shuttle.
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The protest added to momentum created during a larger demonstration Monday in the central business district .
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But when he started spending funds in the direction of improving the downtown business district , he became an inspiring city leader.
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Call from business districts were lower than usual.
council
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In my area the local district council is Labour controlled.
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These agencies include district council recreation departments, local sports councils, voluntary organisations and clubs.
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The biggest allocation for a district council in the region goes to Darlington which receives £700,000.
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District councils came into being as a result of the 1974 legislation which, interalia, abolished rural district councils.
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They do have some support and sympathy from the district council .
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Sadly, it seems that he has failed to grasp the relationship between the district council and the board.
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Parishes For local government purposes the parish had only existed within the boundaries of the former rural district councils .
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Although district councils will have more scope to refuse applications, Labour councillors fear some policy controls could shift to central Government.
councillor
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He has an adult son, David, and is also a Mid Suffolk district councillor .
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County and district councillors came along and after searching questions, agreed with our plan wholeheartedly and gave us very good advice.
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Phil Hughes, a district councillor and parish councillor, who lives in Bowes parish.
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Meal fees: Wear Valley district councillors are being asked to approve increased charges for meals on wheels and luncheon clubs.
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Local district councillors are furious that they are being forced by the Government to introduce fees for commercial waste collection.
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He also served as a district councillor for eight years, before retiring in July last year.
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Recognising the problem, district councillors have come up with a much needed cash injection to ease the crisis.
court
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After 1885 the cost of prosecuting was less because cases were tried in police courts instead of district courts.
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So held the court of appeals for the Eighth Circuit, reversing a district court in a Missouri case.
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I remember standing in the district court before old Smokey Lewis.
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All Supreme Court cases and selected district court cases were prosecuted by a government official.
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Decisions of the federal district courts are reported in the Federal Supplement and are similarly cited.
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The district court upheld the plan but was reversed by the court of appeals.
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The district court recognized that the Alabama statute violated the establishment clause as construed by the Supreme Court.
health
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Patients not living in the two health districts were excluded.
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How can health and local authorities develop cooperative procedures if care is spread across many health districts ?
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He has backed an appeal to raise enough money for a scanner machine for the North Tees health district .
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Setting - Two health districts in Devon.
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Doctors in West Cumbria health district could recall only seven cases in 14 years.
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Nevertheless, fewer than half the health districts in the United Kingdom have established cardiac rehabilitation programmes.
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The closures at Barts have come amid signs of a growing cash crisis this winter in several London health districts .
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Setting - Two community psychogeriatric teams with similar operational policies in an inner London health district .
judge
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The district judge refused both applications.
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A district judge will decide later the amount of money and interest the musicians must receive from royalties.
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A state district judge held Lenhart in contempt, when she refused to identify the grand jurors who spoke to her.
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However this may be, it is plain that the district judge must have tacitly rejected the argument.
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Limits for district judge candidates vary by county population.
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Certain district judges who have been specially nominated and trained have power to act in public law cases.
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Another district judge will now rule on what sanctions should be im posed on the company for its illegal behaviour.
nurse
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She receives physiotherapy three or four times a week and is regularly visited by the district nurse .
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Health visitors and district nurses will also be on site.
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He and his wife, Carole, a district nurse , have two young sons.
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The services included midwives, health visitors, district nurses and various clinics.
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The district nurse is attached to the general practitioner surgery or health centre.
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Astonishingly, they both work full time, Jenny as a district nurse , Michael a doctor.
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Using a person outside the family circle, such as the district nurse , is positively the last resort.
officer
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Each month the district officer spent a whole day writing a full report to the political secretary in the provincial capital.
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As they move forward, Tepilit, without warning, hurls his spear at the district officer from a few feet away.
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The district officer wanted to know if suitable precautions had been taken to avoid the elephants.
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Tepilit watches as the district officer performs a brief hokey-cokey before falling face down.
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The laibon now talks about the famous incident when a district officer was killed.
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Unfortunately the district officer stepped forward.
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The district officer was eventually released on Oct. 13 and the other officials were released during the following week.
school
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California's political map is a chaotic mess of overlapping cities, counties and school districts .
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In November 1993 the school district received an added boost when the Oregon Business Council selected it as a partner.
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Academically, this is one of the country's top school districts .
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Many of the partnerships transcended school district boundaries because companies operate regionally, but they all had strong community roots.
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In the United States parents are actively encouraged to play a full and responsible part in their school and their school district .
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Where the injuries to a student are not foreseeable, however, the school district will not be held liable.
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He said school districts should reduce teacher paperwork, hire more clerical help and lighten teaching loads to reduce stress.
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That means poorer school districts get deeper discounts.
■ VERB
represent
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John Lewis, who represents a district adjacent to Gingrich.
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Ralph would be an excellent person to represent my district .
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They represent different districts , different philosophies and different ways of doing business.
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Better to have no one represent the district for the time being rather than this hypocrite.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Blaine works in the financial district .
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Their apartment is in the Chongwen district of Peking.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Hence Phoenix always keeps at least two of its garbage districts in public hands-so it will always have the capacity to compete.
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In my area the local district council is Labour controlled.
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More significantly, in many districts there were in most villages several households which depended on cattle stealing for their livelihood.
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Qualification for the pension was to be determined by newly-appointed district pensions committees.
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Statistics that I saw later pin-pointed the discrepancies between amounts of money allocated to the white and Negro districts.
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Stockman is spending $ 30, 000 in office funds to hold four electronic call-in shows back in his district .
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The two district courts that addressed this question reached opposite conclusions.
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Within the counties 36 districts instead of 164 would form a second tier.