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    1. But for the remainder of the evening Ava took her to a simulation of a native entertainment district


    2. It is much larger than Gengee City, but just another business district in the Yakhan's urban universe


    3. It's not the upscale shopping district, but there's plenty of food and entertainment


    4. district level,' I could not help pitching our other service


    5. The other advantage of the partners Dawson was that, unlike the new super-practices located at the heart of Manchester’s business district, their fees reflected their clientele’s ability to pay, which in the case of the now deceased Mr


    6. Safe and sound on the outside and aided by the proceeds from Danny’s own bank account, together with funds received from an unwitting, Canadian ice hockey player, Annie and her great-aunt employed the services of a very expensive legal practice in the heart of Manchester’s business district


    7. Be prepared to show how your school will meet specific needs in the district: bring letters of support with you, and have supporters present at the meeting


    8. industrial cleaning agent the district had recently purchased


    9. I had a position of my own with the university by then, so I bought a big party house on a canal between the university and the music district


    10. his own kids in the school district

    11. The person who sat next to me in law school my freshman year in 1969 is the District Court judge in Arizona who was shot and killed by that young man who wanted to kill the Congresswoman


    12. In minutes the buildings of the business district and the homes of


    13. ) As time went on, Hankins had found an apartment in a different probation district (and, more


    14. He got deep behind West Harbor, thru the collar by Rankor Hill and almost to the other plumbing district below the Hyadrain valley


    15. Before long he was back at the end of Blux industrial again, where it comes up into the pottery district


    16. Even with the system able to plot the three-d maze, they could spend hours finding a coachman, even in a busy business district like that near the detective agency


    17. This flavour, real or imaginary, is sometimes peculiar to the produce of a few vineyards; sometimes it extends through the greater part of a small district, and sometimes through a considerable part of a large province


    18. They had then collected all of the firearms and ammunition in the district and surrounds and put the priest in charge of the armory


    19. The market for the produce of a free-stone quarry can seldom extend more than a few miles round about it, and the demand must generally be in proportion to the improvement and population of that small district ; but the market for the produce of a silver mine may extend over the whole known world


    20. In the disorderly state of England under the Plantagenets, who governed it from about the middle of the twelfth till towards the end of the fifteenth century, one district might be in plenty, while another, at no great distance, by having its crop destroyed, either by some accident of the seasons, or by the incursion of some neighbouring baron, might be suffering all the horrors of a famine; and yet if the lands of some hostile lord were interposed between them, the one might not be able to give the least assistance to the other

    21. He had me walk the sailors’ district wearing sandals with AKOLOUTHI carved into


    22. as large as the palace of Baron Iadros, who ruled the district where Nerissa had been born


    23. street with same name, but in another district,


    24. district there are two streets with the same


    25. It can be considered a district of


    26. After pondering the question for a moment, Darniil respectfully requested of the king that his faithful friends, Shaedrak, Micheq and Abedniko, assist him in administrative positions over the jurisdictional district of Babylon


    27. They’re the kind of values that made you grow up without a father, in a shitty district that you can't afford to leave


    28. She always dreamed of living somewhere in Fraenon Hill, the fanciest district in Alataria, reserved mostly for CEOs, celebrities and others of such financial stature, but with Ashcote being her only option, she grew to love its old houses and mold-infested buildings


    29. At first he tried looking for vacant warehouses in the other cities of the Axfield district and even some further away, but Ussermis came up as the only place where he could do it


    30. "Here speaks a man with a devoted wife," he said, jabbing the drumstick into the air to punctuate his speech, "an adoring family, and a position which affords him the respect of the district, invites the jealousy of his inferiors and provides for a most comfortable mode of living indeed

    31. The assembly of a province, like the vestry of a parish, may judge very properly concerning the affairs of its own particular district, but can have no proper means of judging concerning those of the whole empire


    32. After a quick ride through what the locals called the Hill District, formerly a ghetto section of Anglo Pittsburgh, they reached the station at the base of The Bluff


    33. District Security, based on their pale green uniforms


    34. In both ancient Egypt and Indostan, indeed, the confinement of the foreign market was in some measure compensated by the conveniency of many inland navigations, which opened, in the most advantageous manner, the whole extent of the home market to every part of the produce of every different district of those countries


    35. As long as nothing stops their progress, as long as they can go on from one district, of which they have consumed the forage, to another, which is yet entire; there seems to be scarce any limit to the number who can march on together


    36. Under the feudal governments, the many public ordinances, that the citizens of every district should practise archery, as well as several other military exercises, were intended for promoting the same purpose, but do not seem to have promoted it so well


    37. “Issued by Judge Jorge Lopez of the 6th District Court of the Atlantica Republic


    38. Warlock looks closely at the “4 x 6” screen in his hand-held scanner, “to enable the Security Division of the Atlantica Republic, Alleghenia District to apprehend, return, and interrogate Mr


    39. In the Tartar governments of Asia, in the governments of Europe which were founded by the German and Scythian nations who overturned the Roman empire, the administration of justice was a considerable source of revenue, both to the sovereign, and to all the lesser chiefs or lords who exercised under him any particular jurisdiction, either over some particular tribe or clan, or over some particular territory or district


    40. Even those public works, which are of such a nature that they cannot afford any revenue for maintaining themselves, but of which the convecniency is nearly confined to some particular place or district, are always better maintained by a local or provincial revenue, under the management of a local and provincial administration, than by the general revenue of the state, of which the executive power must always have the management

    41. Were the streets of London to be lighted and paved at the expense of the treasury, is there any probability that they would be so well lighted and paved as they are at present, or even at so small an expense ? The expense, besides, instead of being raised by a local tax upon the inhabitants of each particular street, parish, or district in London, would, in this case, be defrayed out of the general revenue of the state, and would consequently be raised by a tax upon all the inhabitants of the kingdom, of whom the greater part derive no sort of benefit from the lighting and paving of the streets of London


    42. The public can facilitate this acquisition, by establishing in every parish or district a little school, where children maybe taught for a reward so moderate, that even a common labourer may afford it ; the master being partly, but not wholly, paid by the public ; because, if he was wholly, or even principally, paid by it, he would soon learn to neglect his business


    43. Suddenly, we entered a district about the size of our village of Nazareth


    44. The street is now a business district because you worked so hard to improve the buildings


    45. As the tax upon each district does not rise with the rise of the rent, the sovereign does not share in the profits of the landlord's improvements


    46. Those improvements sometimes contribute, indeed, to the discharge of the other landlords of the district


    47. } The leases are recorded in a public register, which is kept by the officers of revenue in each province or district


    48. But this additional tax is levied only upon the district under-charged, and it is applied altogether to the relief of that overcharged, which consequently pays only nine hundred livres


    49. The quantity to be collected, and the district within which it is to be collected, are so small, that they both can oversee, with their own eyes, the collection and disposal of every part of what is due to them


    50. The valuation, according to which each different parish and district is assessed to this tax, is always the same














































    1. And for all that anyone knows this happy family still lives in one of the gloomier districts of Leeds


    2. Cyberia turned to look once again at London’s more fashionable districts that towered above her on the northern bank of the river Thames


    3. districts that towered above her on the northern bank of the river


    4. one of the poorer districts of the town


    5. expensive districts of Athens


    6. reality, the city is huge and its districts are


    7. The progress is frequently so gradual, that, at near periods, the improvement is not only not sensible, but, from the declension either of certain branches of industry, or of certain districts of the country, things which sometimes happen, though the country in general is in great prosperity, there frequently arises a suspicion, that the riches and industry of the whole are decaying


    8. " The red pins stood boldly on their rightful districts


    9. The other positive thing about the construction of the trails was that they were secluded, away from the noise and vision of the small businesses and communal districts that lined the valley from Pittsburgh


    10. The estimation by which Great Britain is rated to the land tax is, no doubt, taking the whole kingdom at an average, very much below the real value ; though in several particular counties and districts it is said to be nearly equal to that value

    11. Some additional expense would necessarily be incurred, both by the different register-offices which it would be proper to establish in the different districts of the country, and by the different valuations which might occasionally be made of the lands which the proprietor chose to occupy himself


    12. This additional tax is rated upon all the different districts subject to the taille according to the old assessment


    13. Two districts, for example, one of which ought, in the actual state of things, to be taxed at nine hundred, the other at eleven hundred livres, are, by the old assessment, both taxed at a thousand livres


    14. Both these districts are, by the additional tax, rated at eleven hundred livres each


    15. During the Mahometan government of Bengal, instead of the payment in kind of the fifth part of the produce, a modus, and, it is said, a very moderate one, was established in the greater part of the districts or zemindaries of the country


    16. In some few districts only, which were originally rated high, and in which the rents of houses have fallen considerably, the land tax of three or four shillings in the pound is said to amount to an equal proportion of the real rent of houses


    17. Untenanted houses, though by law subject to the tax, are, in most districts, exempted from it by the favour of the assessors; and this exemption sometimes occasions some little variation in the rate of particular houses, though that of the district is always the same


    18. The land tax established by the late king of Sardinia, and the taille in the provinces of Languedoc, Provence, Dauphine, and Britanny ; in the generality of Montauban, and in the elections of Agen and Condom, as well as in some other districts of France; are taxes upon lands held in property by an ignoble tenure


    19. It is unnecessary to observe how much both the restraints upon the interior commerce of the country, and the number of the revenue officers, must be multiplied, in order to guard the frontiers of those different provinces and districts which are subject to such different systems of taxation


    20. Over and above the general restraints arising from this complicated system of revenue laws, the commerce of wine (after corn, perhaps, the most important production of France) is, in the greater part of the provinces, subject to particular restraints arising from the favour which has been shown to the vineyards of particular provinces and districts above those of others

    21. The Chestnut Quarter was one of the poorer districts of the city though at festival time the nobility also mixed with the common people in the ale houses and on the streets


    22. In the apparently most civilised districts, all manner of diabolical crimes are committed under the very nose of the authorities; and so superstitious are the people, and so powerful the influence of the fetish priests, that the greatest difficulty is experienced in tracing these acts to their source


    23. Even on the Gold Coast itself, in well-populated districts, the moment the tenth child is born in many families, it is either buried alive, or taken to the shore and thrown into the sea


    24. As the Spaniards withdrew, I travelled through the districts they evacuated


    25. When he finally investigated in the poorer districts, he learned to translate the lore


    26. Using badgers drafted in from the surrounding districts, Grindel and Cherva had raised the tall banks of earth in front of the sett in a surprisingly short time


    27. What I find surprising, however, is that many were/are routinely elected from traditionally conservative districts and states


    28. Perhaps initially the deals that would get cut might involve getting to spend in proportion to historical averages for the various districts


    29. Expenditure might come to be allocated more nearly in line with taxes paid by districts


    30. Or, perhaps equity concerns might result in more largesse being allocated to poorer districts, or whatever

    31. See other examples: the donations of trillion dollars that are collected by Third Sector; the payments of wages that are effected by the companies; the taxes and duties that are deposited in the Banks; savings and investment of billion of citizens that are credited in bank current account; governmental transfers that are sent to States and Municipal districts and other values that circulate in the banking system


    32. The advantages reach the First Sector indirectly (Union, States and Municipal districts) and the Second Sector (profit organizations) when the Third Sector of any country to implant the First Strategy of this Project


    33. REGIONS, CITIES, DISTRICTS AND OF THE


    34. and of States for the Municipal districts; sponsors’ donations


    35. districts of the Slums, Wall Market spread out in a grid


    36. onlookers, the inhabitants of the surrounding districts


    37. residential districts of Sectors 6 and 8 mourned the loss of their


    38. districts, landscaping and more are included in this


    39. districts its size in the state that is


    40. The Court has required States to change the way they elect members of their legislatures, and to redraw districts for election to the U

    41. She is the author of the book Amarillo’s Historic Wolfin District which chronicles the history of one of Texas’ most beautiful historic districts


    42. Senators would spend much of their time in their districts with the people


    43. Their funding and all expenses would be decided and paid for by their states and districts


    44. at least 39 of the 75 county clerk’s offices, largely in Democratic districts, were open special weekend hours despite a state law that says absentee and advanced ballots must be cast during “regular offices hours


    45. lines and shortage of voting machines in swing districts


    46. In America, with its television-hungry audience and huge electoral districts, candidates take to the airwaves to broadcast their message


    47. A jumbled series of images—five of the best men and women from the five main districts of Gathandria, together with a handful of followers they trusted most, the theatricals, the glass-makers, the field-tillers, the stone-cutters and the tradesfolk


    48. The king said to him You good and faithful servant who has been found faithful in a little be you set over ten districts; And the second came and said My Lord your portion has gained five portions; And he said to him also And you shall be set over five districts; And another came and said My Lord here is your portion which was with me laid by in a napkin; I feared you because you are a hard man and takest what you did not leave and seekest what you did not give and reapest what you did not sow


    49. Caste Based Discrimination in the Hill Districts of Mid and Far Western Developments Regions,


    50. "He is in charge of Thessaloniki and the surrounding districts










































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    Synonyms for "district"

    district dominion territorial dominion territory zone neighbourhood community precinct quarter sector vicinity local county ward provincial immediate rural

    "district" definitions

    a region marked off for administrative or other purposes


    regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns