Precincts

Usage examples of districts.

Edward Watkin, who is now in Canada, will be commissioned, with other gentlemen specially qualified for the duty, to visit the Red River and southern districts, to consult the officers of the Company there, and to report as to the best and safest means of giving effect to the contemplated operations.

These departments are divided into districts, and in each district are several posts.

In any case, it is undoubted that gold exists in districts east of the primary rocks of the east flanks of the Rocky Mountains, and that persons are seeking for it in greater or less numbers.

Hopkins and others, who had often traversed the districts, and had resided for years therein.

Thus the supply of districts 1,000 miles apart had nearly balanced itself under the treaty.

Durringham’s civic engineers (all eight of them) were alarmed that an avalanche effect would sweep whole districts into the Juliffe.

I’d point out that most of the districts my sheriffs have been excluded from are on the south-eastern side of town.

Fights and squabbles between gangs and districts ended, those barricades which had been erected were strengthened, sentry details were finalized.

Fires were still burning in the outlying districts where the militia troops had tried to force their way in.

Whole districts of Chicago degenerated into war zones as gangs and syndicates and bosses fought like lions for territory.

Most of the level districts were laid out in geometric patterns, housing estates alternating with broad parks and elaborate commercial districts.

Only the steeper hill slopes and crinkled watercourses inconvenienced the encroachment to any degree, although in the central districts even they had been tamed with metal and carbon concrete.

Even the setting, in one of the wealthier districts laid out with parks, wide streets, and century-old trees, didn’t help.

With New Manhattan at the epicentre, fifteen crystalline domes, twenty kilometres in diameter, were clumped together in a semicircle along the eastern seaboard, sheltering entire districts of ordinary skyscrapers (defined as buildings under one kilometre high) from the pummelling heat and winds.

By the time the Westminster Dome was constructed over that initial cluster of ageing weather shields, the outlying districts had undergone significant changes, but any Londoner from the mid Nineteenth Century onwards would have been able to find their way around the central portion without too much trouble.