Sentence examples for over districts from inspiring English sources

For months, Taliban fighters have been taking over districts in Helmand.

That such an attack would come has been clear since the rebels invaded and took over districts in the northeastern and southwestern Sunni districts of the city last Saturday.

The evidence that gun control really does hurt Democrats, or that avoiding it has helped them, is disputed, but the strategy did at least appear to be working in 2006 and 2008, when the Party took over districts that had seemed unwinnable, or close to it.

They will take over districts and will engage in direct battle.

And as the rebels take over districts in the city many fear that what is really happening is an Islamic takeover that will unleash a whirlwind of sectarian division and bloodshed across this region.

The debate over districts for Brookhaven dates back 30 years, when voters approved a similar proposal.

When the hearing was over, District Judge William C. Wenner ordered the case to go to trial.

(The area was known as the "burnt-over district" because of this).

The upstate region where Smith was living was known as the "burnt-over district," because of the religious fevers that continually swept through it.

Western New York was known as the "burned-over district" then — a crucible for Mormonism, Christian Science, Seventh-Day Adventism, and countless cults and utopian colonies.

The "burned-over district" -- so-called because 19th-century dissident religious and social movements swept over the area like wildfires -- has nurtured iconoclasts of every ilk.