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Example sentences for "district"

Lexicographically close words:
distributional; distributions; distributive; distributor; distributors; districts; distrito; distroy; distroyed; distrust
  1. The kotwal of the district made an investigation, but I held my own counsel, and spoke not one word about the Ganapati or the blue diamonds.

  2. According to the rules of our caste and the customs of our race, the ceremony must be worthy of the parents and of the position they occupy; all of the district must be feasted, and let the expense be grievous as it may it must be borne.

  3. Know, my friends, that I am a district judge in Delhi, presiding over that quarter known as the Bara Bazaar, where the merchants most do congregate.

  4. The attorney-general of the State appeared with the district attorney of San Joaquin county, and contended that the offense of which the petitioner was charged could only be inquired into before the tribunals of the State.

  5. Mr. Wheeler represented Yuba County at one time in the Senate, and is now the District Judge of the Nineteenth District, at San Francisco.

  6. District Attorney White and Mrs. Terry's lawyer, Maguire, were duly notified of this movement and were passengers on the same train.

  7. It provided that the then incumbent District Judges should continue to be the Judges of the new Districts according to their respective numbers.

  8. He insisted that the judgment ought to have been for three thousand and nine hundred dollars, besides interest, swelling the amount to over six thousand dollars, and applied to Judge Hoffman of the District Court to set it aside.

  9. When I went upon the bench of the Supreme Court, I appointed him clerk of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of California, and, with the exception of the period during which he acted as secretary of Gov.

  10. In one district the military officer took his stand at the polls before they were opened, declaring that none but the 'yellow ticket should be voted,' and excluded all others throughout the day.

  11. This order was sent by telegraph to the United States Marshal of the district in which would be found the person who was to be arrested.

  12. In the same district an order was issued "to relieve the Treasurer of the State from the duties, bond, books, papers, etc.

  13. The judgment of the District Court must, therefore, be reversed, and the goods delivered to the claimant, his agent, or proctor.

  14. At this time General Buckner held Knoxville and commanded the district of East Tennessee; General Samuel Jones commanded the district of southwest Virginia, his headquarters at Arlington, Virginia.

  15. The reader will not have failed to observe that General Johnston, commanding the department, and General Pemberton, the district commander, entertained quite different views.

  16. The Act to emancipate Slaves in the District of Columbia.

  17. By provision of law, each Congressional and Territorial district, and the District of Columbia, is entitled to have one cadet at the Military Academy, and no more.

  18. The district appointments are made on the nomination of the member of Congress representing the district at the date of the appointment.

  19. The law requires that the individual selected shall be an actual resident of the Congressional district of the State or Territory, or District of Columbia, from which the appointment purports to be made.

  20. In connection with the establishment at Hythe, district inspectors are appointed to superintend the general system of musketry instruction throughout the army, viz.

  21. Each inspector has charge of a district containing from twelve to fifteen stations.

  22. The fixed abode of the candidate, and number of the Congressional district which he considers his permanent residence, must be set forth in the application.

  23. Is not that district a perilous one after nightfall?

  24. His coming was not looked upon with favour in a district given over to thieves and prostitutes.

  25. For the lost three months Tristram had been to the district doctor, nurse--and friend.

  26. The manor of Lindholm lies in the centre of a smiling district about twenty miles north of the capital of Sweden.

  27. When these assurances reached Dalarne, the poor peasants of that district were already starving.

  28. One stream, famous in Swedish history, bisects the district from north to south, passing through various lakes, and finally pours its waters into the Baltic.

  29. The conquerors then entered Bleking, and placed the district once more under Danish rule.

  30. POE, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York.

  31. He was translated from the Midland to the Northern District in 1716.

  32. The neighbouring district of down and common land would not be an inappropriate habitat for such a personage.

  33. The term closed with a banquet given by the grand jury of the district court to the justices and officers of both courts at Fraunce's Tavern in Cortland Street.

  34. To exercise exclusive legislation" over the District might mean to construct sidewalks and to grade streets; but it was not so expressed.

  35. It cannot be supposed," replied Jefferson to one protestant, "that Congress intended to tax the people of the United States at large for all avenues in Washington and roads in the District of Columbia.

  36. District judges, attorneys, and marshals for the eleven judicial districts were appointed at the same time.

  37. Several meetings of the Supreme and district courts were held at this session, a seal was adopted by the former, and several attorneys admitted to practice before it; but there were no cases to be heard.

  38. By holding that the mandamus must issue from the District and not the Supreme Court, the case might have been dismissed briefly.

  39. It had been done by creating six circuit courts, with judges, marshals, and attorneys, instead of requiring the district judges and Supreme Court justices to make up these courts as had been done under the Judiciary Act of 1789.

  40. Midnight of the 3rd of March had caught forty-one of the proposed Federal justices of the peace for the District of Columbia without their appointment having been fully made.

  41. By another act, a circuit court, with three judges, was created for the District of Columbia, with an elaborate system of justices' courts and justices of the peace.

  42. In his second message, the President sent to Congress a petition for statehood from an authorised convention of the people inhabiting the district of Kentucky, together with a permission to that end from the parent State, Virginia.

  43. According to the newspapers "the jury from the district court attended; some of the members of Congress, and a number of respectable citizens also.

  44. Many went so far as to charge that the election of Adams had been accomplished by prematurely closing the polls in a Maryland election district and by the action of a Pennsylvania postmaster, who held back the returns.

  45. To Monro was assigned the district of Aberdeen, while Argyll was to take order with the more southern Highlands.

  46. From the Border to the North Sea the Covenant was supreme, save only in that dangerous district which called Huntly lord, and against the power of Huntly the arms of the Covenant were now turned.

  47. A few years ago there was a wild speculation in mines in what is called the 'Broken Hill' district of Victoria, and at present there is an excitement about gold discoveries in Western Australia.

  48. No other part of Australia can compete with this district in potato cultivation.

  49. The country is laid out into districts, and in each district not more than five trading Chinese are allowed to live and transact business.

  50. Moreover, they were required to go to the expense and trouble of transmitting a copy of the work, after publication, to the District clerk, and another copy to the Library of Congress.

  51. The act further required entry of the title, before publication, in the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court in the State where the author or proprietor resided.

  52. These were not to be for the schools alone, but for all the people living in the district where the school was located.

  53. There is one class of libraries not yet touched upon, namely, school district libraries.

  54. They were required to make entry in the district where the applicant resided, and this was frequently a matter of doubt.

  55. The school district library system, in short, while promising much in theory, in the way of public intelligence, broke down completely in practice.

  56. The insignificance of the sum raised by taxation in each district prevented any considerable supply of books from being acquired.

  57. The American people were put to much trouble to find out where to apply, in the complicated system of District Courts, several of them frequently in a single State, to enter titles for publication.

  58. These publications were the accumulations of about eighty years, received from the United States District Clerks' offices under the old law.

  59. He was then fourteen; and he was to be double that age before he returned to the District and took up his abode there.

  60. At the opening of the present century, the Lake District of Cumberland and Westmoreland was groaned over by some residents as fast losing its simplicity.

  61. He was brought into the District when four years old; and it does not appear that he ever had a chance allowed him of growing into a sane man.

  62. All this must be very bad for anybody; and so was the distinction of having early chosen this District for a home.

  63. The Lake District is no longer a retreat; and any other retreat must have different characteristics, and be illumined by some different order of lights.

  64. One of my neighbors, who first saw the Lake District in early childhood, has a solemn remembrance of the first impression.

  65. Tyrannio, was discovered transcribed underneath farm accounts of land in the district of Hermopolis in Egypt in the reign of Vespasian, A.

  66. This is called the District of Olive trees, or, by an association somewhat forced, of Canaanitish culture.

  67. The wines produced among the gravels and pebbles of the Medoc district near Bordeaux are much superior to the wines produced on the palus or alluvion lands between the two rivers Lot and Garonne in the same vicinity.

  68. The fertility of Lombardy is proved by the constant succession of its crops, and to this province he has given the name of "Pays de Culture par assolement," or the district of culture by rotation of crops.

  69. District offices also are involved in the evaluation, which will conclude in summer 1993.

  70. Centralization of equipment at the district level, with teachers invited to download things and walk away with them, proved unsuccessful because the hours these offices were open were also school hours.

  71. He said that a cyclone would sweep over this district upon a certain morning, and Cooley was so much alarmed at the prospect that he made elaborate preparations to receive the storm.

  72. The Indian names that still remain here and there to designate a stream, a district or a town are the few distinctly American words in existence.

  73. Forwood, of Ormskirk, it may be expected that the Liverpool District Farmers' Club will be on the watch for tangible evidence of their grievances against the railway companies.

  74. United States district attorneys could attend to such legal business as might arise.

  75. Stephens, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Southern District of New York.

  76. The Palki and the Tiger In a lonely village in the Hazaribagh district the peaceful dwellers were one evening disturbed by shrill cries of distress.

  77. And after this, for a time, this part of the Dacca district enjoyed peace from dacoits.

  78. This district is even now infested with tigers, and in those far-off days these lords of the jungle roamed far and wide.

  79. The route lay through a lonely country district with stretches of rice-fields scattered between, and villages nestling here and there among groves of trees.

  80. Both Cagnola and Galeotto refer, no doubt, to the vast system of irrigation which Lodovico constructed at immense pains and expense to fertilize this district of Lomellina, and which may well have earned the gratitude of its inhabitants.

  81. It was at Vigevano that winter, on the 28th of January, that Lodovico drew up the deed of gift by which he endowed his wife with his palace lands of Cussago, as well as the Sforzesca and other lands in the district of Novara and Pavia.

  82. A few weeks later the Milanese envoy to Venice was dismissed, and the Venetian army prepared to enter the district of Cremona.

  83. The Signory agreed to invade the duke's territory with an army of 6000 men, and were to receive the district of Cremona in return for their assistance.

  84. This was the only district that had fewer baby deaths than for 1906.

  85. County or district machinery is little known in America.

  86. In New York City a woman district superintendent of schools, Miss Julia Richman, has organized a unique "social settlement.

  87. Thus New York has for the present definitely abandoned the plan of having the district inspection for contagious diseases done by school physicians.

  88. Of this method a district superintendent in New York said to his teachers and principals: "For thirty-two years I have been working in the schools of this district.

  89. This substitute has been already suggested by principals and district superintendents in New York City, who claim that the natural place for the examination of children is the school and not health headquarters.

  90. What this machinery should be depends, of course, upon the amount of business to be done, and differs with the size of the district and the character of population to be served.

  91. Last summer a district nurse of the summer corps who visited city babies under two years of age encountered in the hallway of a tenement a bevy of frenzied women.

  92. As soon as one district becomes definitely known as a source of nuisance, infection, and disease, better situated districts begin to make laws to protect themselves.

  93. In a district by which we must pass and with which we must deal, one of us or a neighbor or friend will turn our attention from our danger to the suffering of those against whom we wish to protect ourselves.


  94. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "district" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abode; apportion; archbishopric; area; bailiwick; bearings; belt; bishopric; borough; canton; city; commune; confines; corridor; country; county; department; diocese; district; divide; division; duchy; electorate; emplacement; environs; government; ground; hamlet; hinterland; hole; hundred; jurisdiction; land; lieu; limit; local; locale; locality; locus; magistracy; metropolis; milieu; municipality; neighborhood; neighbourhood; parcel; parish; part; partition; parts; pinpoint; place; placement; point; portion; position; precinct; precincts; premises; principality; province; purlieus; quarter; region; resident; riding; salient; section; sector; segment; shire; site; situation; soil; space; split; spot; stake; state; stead; subdivide; terrain; territory; town; township; tract; vicinity; village; ward; whereabouts; zone


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    district attorney; district court; district courts; district judge; district school