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district

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A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by local government . Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning entire regions or counties , several municipalities , subdivisions of municipalities, ...

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District \Dis"trict\, a. [L. districtus, p. p.] Rigorous; stringent; harsh. [Obs.] Punishing with the rod of district severity. --Foxe.

Usage examples of district.

Caufeld could be confirmed, Abram appointed to a district judgeship and Edie appointed the U.

The private telephone and telegraph wires between Whernside House and Settle and the aerograph apparatus at the observatory were working almost incessantly till dawn, sending and receiving messages between this remote moorland district and London and the seat of war, as well as Bolton and Pittsburg.

Finally, in thinking they could use a mobster to trap a terrorist, the story underscores the apparent naivete of FBI agents and prosecutors in the Southern District.

Since then the general has served in India, at first with the Sappers and Miners, with whose reorganisation he was closely associated, and latterly in command of the Agra District.

The Dracophils held one or two every day in some of the thirty-six districts of Alca, and preferably in the poorer quarters.

Or you might prefer to be made pasha of a district right here on Alif, closer to the center of things.

Max turned onto Bigelow Boulevard, and they swept along the hillside, looking down at the Strip District and the Allegheny River beyond.

As a delegate of the Poor Relief Service, intrusted with one of the Grenelle districts, Madame Angelin had found Norine among the pensioners over whom she was appointed to watch.

APRON OVER AN OLD SHIRT AND washed-out chinos, James Jesus Angleton was sweeping the aisles of the greenhouse he had recently installed in the back yard of his suburban Arlington house, across the Potomac from the District of Columbia and the Pickle Factory on the Reflecting Pool.

Hence an act granting a right of appeal from the Commission to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is not unconstitutional as conferring executive power upon a judicial body.

The district court issued a preliminary injunction, which the court of appeals stayed.

Commerce Court judges among the Circuit Courts of Appeals and the transfer of its jurisdiction to the district courts.

The Court was vested with jurisdiction and powers of a district court to hear appeals filed within thirty days against denials of protests by the Price Administrator and with exclusive jurisdiction to set aside regulations, orders, or price schedules, in whole or in part, or to remand the proceeding.

Since the Emergency Court of Appeals, subject to review by the Supreme Court, was given exclusive jurisdiction to determine the validity of any order issued under the act, it resulted that the district courts were deprived of the power to inquire into the validity of orders involved in civil or criminal proceedings in which they had jurisdiction.

MAYFAIR was not in the Argus apartment, which was full of detectives from the homicide detail, an assistant district attorney, photographers, print men.