Sentence examples for district down from inspiring English sources

When he was fired, the city reported reading scores in his district down by 1.2 percentage points; later, it turned out the testing company was wrong, and scores had actually risen 2.9pointss.

From Monte Urpinu Park, you'll see that the crowning glory is the historic Castello district, the apex of Cagliari's central hill, while the Marina district down by the harbour is its chief hotspot for eating and drinking.

Some 2,000 people are expected to commemorate this weekend the epochal battle they fought in the civil rights movement, when children as young as 6 years old marched, picketed, jammed the jails and juvenile halls, shut the city's shopping district down, and at last broke the back of segregation in Birmingham, the most segregated city in the nation.

However, I am (based on nothing but gut feel) moving Maine's upstate district down from Leans Trump to the Too Close To Call category this week, since it was always kind of a longshot to begin with.

She has let go of 14 employees, and moved the school district down to four buildings from seven.

She was making a statement, she said, "to bring the design process from the locked showrooms of the district down to the street".

The bride-to-be and eight friends were partying at Flywheel Sports studio in the Flatiron district, downing half-liter bottles of water as they bellied up to the barre for an hourlong workout that mixed Pilates, dance and weights.

"Partnership does not mean being a pawn of the school district," Downs told The Huffington Post.

These same mapmakers were supposed to draw new Congressional districts — shrinking New York's 29 districts down to 27 to reflect the 2010 census.

As the jihadists foundered, the Ugandans and Burundians thrust forward in a pincer movement towards the Bakara market, the city's commercial hub.The Shabab now control only 40% of Mogadishu proper (excluding sparsely populated outlying districts), down from about 60% a few months ago.

They have not unveiled maps for 27 Congressional districts -- down from 29 districts because New York has not added enough people compared with other states.