Sentence examples for portion of local from inspiring English sources

Similarly, the portion of local homes that are on the market because of foreclosure has dropped.

The chamber's nine Republicans, who have proposed a 5percenttaxax increase in the county portion of local property tax bills, all voted against it.

The cabinet has ruled that only a portion of local governments' concealed liabilities would be treated as full-fledged government debt.

The majority voted last year to raise the county portion of local property tax bills by 15.4percentthis yearas, as part of a four-year fiscal rescue plan.

But their proposal for a 5percentt rise in the county portion of local property tax bills fell well short of the 16.3percentt being sought by Democratic legislators.

The Democrats, who have a one-vote majority in the County Legislature, have called for raising the county portion of local property tax bills by 16.3percentt next year, an average of $165 per household.

He says leaders must ensure that a large portion of locals are hired to build and ?service new projects and that towns adopt and enforce zoning and affordable-housing laws as new capital flows into the community.

Therefore, we suggest that the differences between two eQTL mapping approaches may facilitate sorting of SNP-eQTL interactions into true cis and trans, and that a considerable portion of local-eQTL may actually represent trans interactions.

In a historic Danish building on Frederiksted's waterfront, the Blue Moon, 17 Strand Street, (340) 772-2222, supplies generous portions of local fish and Cajun-Caribbean entrees.

Apparently named after Nelson Mandela, everything else about this place is very Greek: hearty portions of local food are served with a smile.

Recently, Noah Schwartz of Noah's in Greenport served bite-size portions of local sea scallop ceviche and deviled eggs topped with crabmeat to be paired with the 2007 Brut.