Sentence examples for gerrymander from inspiring English sources

They are just doing what the other side did when it had the chance: gerrymandering, and complaining about gerrymandering, are equal-opportunity pursuits.Some states have grown tired of the gerrymander.

But he has used his powers to change laws and gerrymander constituencies to tilt the system, making it much harder to defeat Fidesz at the ballot box.

This act makes it easier for politicians to craft ("gerrymander" was the good old word) absurdly shaped districts, such as the "I-85" 12th District in North Carolina, which followed the twists in that special road (and is still the subject of a legal battle).

Gone, too, is any enthusiasm for term limits; indeed, most Republicans spend their time trying to gerrymander districts to keep them there for life.

The Boston Gazette's editor combined that word with the surname of the governor, Elbridge Gerry, to produce gerrymander.

And suppliers may cherry-pick easier cases or steer patients towards less-appropriate care in order to look good; this is already a problem in education, where league tables encourage schools to gerrymander their intake and push students towards easier courses.

That outcome, in turn, was underpinned by a previous Republican gerrymander.

First, the state's demographics are changing fast enough that an overly ambitious partisan gerrymander is likely to come unstuck during its ten-year lifespan.

Virtually all the states allow their politicians to gerrymander the boundaries of their districts, creating absurdly-shaped patterns.

At the moment, incumbents from both parties gerrymander districts to protect themselves, squeezing Republicans and Democrats into absurdly shaped districts (see the map in our special report).

A particularly precise gerrymander in 2000 left virtually every political district safe for either Democrats or Republicans.