Sentence examples for multiple districts from inspiring English sources

The Congressional seat was created in 1944 in a reapportionment that ended the practice of slicing up Harlem as part of multiple districts, which diluted the neighborhood's political power.

Austin, a liberal island in Texas that has long been carved into multiple districts, would still be divided in three under a plan that was drawn up last week by a Texas court.

In Milliken v. Bradley, which involved the Detroit school system, the court ruled that students could only be bused across district lines if there was evidence that multiple districts had implemented deliberately discriminatory policies.

The plaintiffs argued the Republicans employed two gerrymandering techniques: "cracking" – "dividing a party's supporters among multiple districts so that they fall short of a majority in each one" – and "packing" – "concentrating one party's backers in a few districts that they win by overwhelming margins", to dilute the votes of Democrats statewide.

Is part of the problem that today's defence contracts are politically engineered spread out across multiple districts, affecting multiple congressmen so that they never lose support in Congress?Mr Zinni: The recent decisions on the F-22 and others show a more cooperative relationship between Congress and the Pentagon.

After 10 days of trying to sell constituents on their plan to overhaul Medicare, House Republicans in multiple districts appear to be increasingly on the defensive, facing worried and angry questions from voters and a barrage of new attacks from Democrats and their allies.

The Supreme Court may decide to step in if multiple district courts are issuing different opinions.

The team had multiple district and state championships in the '70s under Hastert.

But the 2004 search of Major League baseball testing records was fully investigated, and found to be a blatant trespass of Fourth Amendment rights against unlawful search and seizure by multiple district courts and two opinions of the Ninth Circuit of the Court of Appeals.

The deputy director of the Elections Board, Joseph Gentili, said that occurred in part because the board decided that in a shortened election period -- with the general election less than a month away -- it would consolidate multiple election districts on single voting machines in many districts.

Beijing alone had hundreds of galleries in multiple art districts.