Sentence examples for up the precinct from inspiring English sources

With no market on this morning, however, and the schools broken up, the precinct is a quiet shell.

In "Eight Black Horses" (1985), which found the Big Bad City in the middle of a crime wave, his diabolical plan was to blow up the precinct station house.

We have to clean up the precincts.

The basic idea is that you take a sample of random precincts (eg, 35 in Wisconsin last night) supposedly representative of the state and add up the precincts to form a state estimate.

He was being asked to leave [instead] and parents had to pick their kids up from the precinct".

The police not only tolerated pleasure domes but skimmed the earnings, with payoffs to the beat cop filtering up to the precinct captains and the police chief.

She said that her campaign had projected that eighty-seven people would show up in the precinct; Riordan announced that the total was three times as many, at two hundred and sixty-three.

The dynamic between the two men illustrated the rightward tilt of the Republican debate as the candidates focus their time and energy in this state over the days leading up to the precinct caucuses on Monday.

When Graham's mother showed up to the precinct and attempted to retrieve Hartley, she alleges one of the officers at the station tackled her.

Deputy Inspector Michael Grant, on modified desk duty because of the scandal, had previously headed up the 72nd precinct in Sunset Park where numerous incidents of police brutality led to a tense town hall with outraged residents.

By John Heilemann The New Yorker, February 24 , 1997P. 122 THE POLITICAL SCENE about Westchester County district attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro... Her campaign to clean up the darker precincts of cyberspace began a little more that two years ago when she found herself faced with an old-fashioned menace in an unfamiliar form.