Sentence examples for precinct behind from inspiring English sources

In just 24 hours, marines cut enough electrical cable and plywood to turn a shell of a building into a functioning outpost, one of the 10 they are building, one for each precinct, and to wall off the precinct behind concrete barriers, leaving only a few ways in or out.

In a regular design the Hafencity area would be closed off by a levee to protect the precinct behind it, creating a vulnerable, fragile situation, because in the instance the protection fails, the consequential damage is huge.

Kabul, Afghanistan — EACH morning, the policewoman puts on her uniform, goes to her precinct office, sits behind a bare desk.

Sometimes the paperwork was retrieved from a box behind the precinct desk that is emptied once each shift.

Officers placed the summonses they issued into a box behind the precinct's desk officer; now a supervisor does it.

The groundwork for holding onto Springfield began more than six months ago and peaked in recent weeks behind paid precinct canvassers and legions of volunteers provided by unions, Democratic operatives said.

"Then the precinct captain walks up right behind him and says: 'All right, everybody in four-man cars.

"I want you to campaign like we were one vote behind in every precinct," he told supporters from the 1.4-million-member Service Employees International Union in a get-out-the-vote rally.

The Cruz camp's emphasis on quick, sophisticated communications meant that it could send a directive to spread the story to campaign workers in every Iowa precinct, but it also left behind a digital trail of tweets and e-mail alerts.

He was led from the 62nd Precinct station house, his hands cuffed behind his back, his eyes set straight ahead.

Then, in the bathroom of a precinct house, with his hands cuffed behind his back and his pants down, he was sodomized by a cop with a broken broomstick.