Sentence examples for district setting from inspiring English sources

If Mr. Morrison does win the nomination, another seat in Congress would open, in the 3d District, setting the stage for yet another battle in a district that, like the 5th District, has swung between parties and could be up for grabs.

Peru was still searching for bodies and answers after tons of fireworks exploded in a crowded shopping district, setting four blocks ablaze and killing 291 people.

According to initial details, Taliban militants, armed with heavy machine guns, fired rockets in the predawn assault at the base in Serai Norang in the Lakki Marwat district, setting off a heavy gun battle that lasted for several hours.

Planners, in fact, developed the area on the city's east side in the mid-1800s as a cultural counterpoint to the thriving downtown business district, setting aside land for institutions that would merge into Case Western Reserve University.

PLUNGE When this bar at the Gansevoort Hotel opened in 2004, it was all the rage, the mere idea of being 15 stories above the meatpacking district setting trendsetters' hearts aflutter.

Beyond campaign issues, David Grosso (I-At Large) introduced a measure to challenge the congressional prohibition against the District setting up a system to tax and regulate sales of marijuana.

Specifically for the residents in your district, what set off the alarms that the life they knew was changing?

The Manhattan Engineer District set up, back in 1942, a long-range timetable for the production of a bomb.

The vote in his Baghdad district sets him up to run for the powerful post of speaker.

Further, only 28 states and the District set a minimum age for sales from unlicensed gun dealers.

In September, 2010, the Guggenheim endorsed a new set of labor standards that apply to Saadiyat's cultural district, set by the state-owned Tourism Development & Investment Company.