Sentence examples for stricken district from inspiring English sources

Most of the girls in this poverty stricken district of Nairobi won't finish high school; a fact that 15 year old Grace is well aware of.

Though the city's energetic mayor, Mu Xuexin, has described the neighborhood policy as an unavoidable response to the city's economic woes, the changes have hardly begun in the city's most stricken district, Tiexin, once the epicenter of heavy industry and now littered with rusting state factories.

UNICEF supplies ready for earthquake stricken districts United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, today is sending emergency supplies to help victims of the earthquake in Bengkulu.

However, the Supreme Court has recently struck down district maps in states that, in its view, went too far in using race to draw district lines.

At an event in Flushing, a choir from P.S. 139 in Rego Park sang during the festivities, and the racial makeup of the choir -- all white, with one Asian student -- struck the district superintendent and the school board president as unsettling, given the racial diversity of the 25,000 students in the district.

That's certainly how it struck US district judge Denny Chin.

As Slader and Albeshari exchanged words over the cellphone camera, she reached over to him and struck him, district spokesman Carolyn Jones said.

DONETSK, Ukraine, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Shells struck a district of separatist-controlled Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Friday, killing a pensioner and injuring his wife, and the Ukrainian military said six soldiers had also been killed in renewed clashes with the Russian-backed rebels.

Other car bombs struck the districts of Saba al-Bor, Mashtal, Baladiyat, Ur, Sha'ab, Bayaa and Nahrawan, where two bombs exploded.

But in a series of landmark decisions starting with Shaw v. Reno in 1993, the Supreme Court struck down districting plans on the ground that state legislators had given too much weight to race as a factor in drawing the lines.

They do not have to do the things that often make school boards unpopular -- cutting programs and raising taxes -- and they have not been tarred by the financial scandals that have struck some districts.