Sentence examples for precinct against from inspiring English sources

78% of the world's democracies use paper ballots".9 Judy recommended using Poll Tape Capture to compare the actual count at each precinct against the reported count.

Scanners used in the precinct protect against mismarked ballots.

The results in his precinct were 184 against prohibition and one in favor.

Four other men were in police custody at the 70th Precinct, but charges against them were pending, officials said.

But while the attraction is mutual, pressure from their respective families and the precinct weigh heavily against the tenuous relationship.

In October the department brought internal charges against the precinct's former commander and four others, accusing them of failing to record a grand-larceny auto theft and a robbery complaint.

When Mr. Jordan was arrested on Jan . 24 federal prosecutors released a complaint that said he and Mr. Trotman had conspired to kill Michael Paul, a detective in the 77th Precinct who had testified against them in a gun case in 1997.

The police said last night that no arrests had been made, but Sgt. Brian Mullen of the 34th Precinct said that charges against the men, who were not identified, were pending.

Eighteen years after the start of the much-vaunted CompStat system of data-driven crime fighting, the Police Department — where I served from 1983 to 2004 — has become a top-down, micromanaged bureaucracy in which precinct commanders are pitted against one another and officers are challenged to match or exceed what they did the previous year, month and week.

Still, strangely enough the nays beat out the yays in that precinct, with 482 votes against the amendment and 291 for it.

According to the Civilian Complaint Review Board, there were 48 complaints filed against the 43rd Precinct in 1997; 43 filed in 1998; 70 in 1999; 42 in 2000; and 47 last year.