The phrase "area was handed" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to convey that a certain area was transferred or assigned to someone or something, but it lacks clarity and context.
Example: "The area was handed over to the new management team for further development."
Alternatives: "area was transferred" or "area was assigned".
According to the press release, after attending a Halloween party, Vitar and the two men "became upset when a 22-year-old man visiting his grandmother in the area was handing out candy to kids as he walked down the street".
He hinted that should those areas be handed over by Israel, Hamas could take a "temporary" respite "without Israel being recognized and without any concession being made".
Among the troubled areas being handed off by the NATO-led coalition are central Helmand Province, several districts in Wardak Province and Sarobi District, here in the rugged mountains in eastern Kabul Province.
However, with the most pressing foreign policy issue in the impending elections being the Afghanistan conflict, and given the losses being incurred by British troops there, Mr Brown has declared that UK forces could start to withdraw, with areas being handed over to the Afghans.
Groundwater was collected as follows: a piezometer, which tapped the upper part of the saturated zone (depth 6 m) and was in the south-east of the area, was hand-sampled using an immerged pump after the complete renewal of the water in the piezometer.
With this method, the epicardial and endocardial borders of each slice as well as the contours of the infarcted area were hand-traced and expressed in percentage of the total slice area.
The southern protectorate area of Tarfaya was handed back to Morocco in 1958, while the Spanish unconditionally gave up Ifni in 1970, hoping to gain recognition of their rights to Melilla and Ceuta.
When German forces, which occupied the territory during World War I, retreated from the area, the administration was handed to the Lithuanians.
Separately, children were discovered playing with a rifle in the area and the firearm was handed in to police.
Mr. Le Drian had decided to give up Parliament and remain head of Brittany — an important naval and military area — and he was handing out anti-Sarkozy literature on the street.
