Sentence examples for major counties from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, Sacramento County, Calif., lost the highest percentage of jobs of all the major counties.

"McGreevey was about to lock up the nomination -- he had raised more than $3 million for the party and the major counties were coming out for him".

On the eve of Mr. Suozzi's inauguration, it was rated the worst run of 40 major counties nationwide by the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Policy at Syracuse University.

Most of the services available to the citizens of New Jersey come from the state, although most of the major counties maintain institutions of one kind or another, and much funding comes through federal agencies.

Separately, supporters of Mr. Davis said today that they were preparing to challenge the recall voting on the grounds that the several major counties, including Los Angeles and San Diego, would be using unreliable punch-card voting systems because they will not have time to install newer technology for the recall election.

Compare Mr. Romney's 30 percent performance in Johnson County, for instance, to that of other urban and suburban counties that have similar demographics but are elsewhere in the country: Mr. Romney took between 40 and 50 percent of the vote in the major counties that make up metropolitan Detroit, Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati, allowing him to win Michigan and Ohio.

In devising the county's four-year plan -- a crucial document to avoid a state fiscal takeover -- he promised he would meet weekly with all major county officials.

But the fiscal crisis went from a simmer to a full boil in April, when the Alabama Supreme Court declared a major county tax unconstitutional.

He said that as a member of the Major City Chiefs Association, the Major County Sheriffs Association and the National Sheriffs Association, he had not heard complaints about noncooperation from Muslims.

"She's had a few arguments in her time," Dick Mann, a high school track and field official at major county meets, said.

He was the second party leader in a major county to endorse Mr. Cuomo, a former United States housing secretary, after David Alpert, the Westchester County chairman.