Sentence examples for stricken localities from inspiring English sources

Two million affected A full assessment of earthquake damage to Haiti's education infrastructure has yet to be completed, but an estimated 90 per cent of schools in the Port-au-Prince area – and 40 per cent of schools in the southern port city of Jacmel and other stricken localities – were damaged or destroyed.

The method estimates the damage occurred to residential buildings that is based on the use of Istituto Nazionale di Statistica the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT census data and on the macroseismic intensity assigned to each inhabited locality struck by the earthquake.

Take locality first.

If Section 5 is struck down, states and localities would have far more freedom to erect barriers for minority voters — and there is little doubt that some would do just that.

Fifty years later, with the Supreme Court having stricken Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act -- which set the standards for determining which states and localities had to obtain "preclearance" under Section 5 to make voting rule changes -- such states as North Carolina, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama are already moving ahead to enact new ballot restrictions.

The laws undergirding the New Deal had been passed in states and localities for years, struck down by courts or undermined by inadequate funding.

Nadia resided alone, and Saeed with his parents, but both were fortunate that their homes remained for a while in government-controlled neighborhoods, and so were spared much of the worst fighting and also the retaliatory air strikes that the Army was calling in on localities thought not merely to be occupied but disloyal.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday essentially struck down those preapproval requirements, which had deterred states and localities from passing legislation that they knew would meet with resistance from civil rights advocates and result in protracted fights.

The Supreme Court in July 2013 struck down a key provision that determined which states and localities with a history of suppressing minority voters had to get permission from the Justice Department to change their voting laws.

On the other hand, such macro data has no place when you're looking at the formation of clouds over a single locality, or why a storm seems to have struck with unnatural fierceness there.

Roberts led a five-justice majority in 2013 to strike down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act that required states and localities with a history of discrimination to run any changes to its voting laws by the DOJ.