The average Democratic politician, especially in the country districts, is hungry for the spoils of office.

-- And proposals for a whole series of lesser candidate-picking conventions in the state's 38 new Congressional districts.

but the subsequent analysis of characteristics is reported only for the de jure population ( or, in some districts, only the de facto population ).

These schools are intended to provide the facilities and specialized curriculum that would not be possible for very small school districts.

This weakness is not unique to labor surplus areas, for it is inherent in the system of local school districts in this country.

Dr. Melvin W. Barnes, superintendent, said he thought the schools were waiting for some leadership, perhaps on the national level, to make sure that whatever steps of planning they took would `` be more fruitful '', and that he had found that other school districts were not as far along in their planning as this district.

The allotments of the Burghal Hidage represent the creation of administrative districts for the support of the burhs.

In 1818 the British forced the Marathas to cede the city for 50, 000 rupees whereupon it became part of the province of Ajmer-Merwara, which consisted of the districts of Ajmer and Merwara and were physically separated by the territory of the Rajputana Agency.

The Territory is also technically divided into 5 administrative districts ( one for each of the four largest islands, and then a fifth for all other islands ), and into 6 civil registry districts ( three for Tortola, Jost Van Dyke, Virgin Gorda and Anegada ) although these have little practical relevance today.

Bulgaria, which had secured Ottoman recognition of her independence in April 1909 and enjoyed the friendship of Russia, also looked to districts of Ottoman Thrace and Macedonia for expansion.

Districts that do not contain a former borough can apply for a charter in a similar manner to English districts.

The territory is subdivided into sixth districts that are governed by district managers and that have a role as electoral districts and as regional units for statistics.

Each coalition can present two candidates for the two Senate and two lower-chamber seats apportioned to each chamber's electoral districts.

For example, in some districts a contract for deed is an executory contract, while in others it is not.

While it is not called for in the Charter, there is a tradition in Dedham for the Chairmen of the several districts to elect from amongst themselves a chairman.

He is known best for being the namesake of gerrymandering, a process by which electoral districts are drawn with the aim of aiding the party in power, although its initial " g " has softened to from the hard of his name.

Legislation may be initiated by the Council of State, or one of the Eduskunta members, who are elected for a four-year term on the basis of proportional representation through open list multi-member districts.

In May 2005 the Canadian province of British Columbia had a referendum on abolishing single-member district plurality in favour of multi-member districts with the Single Transferable Vote system after the Citizens ' Assembly on Electoral Reform made a recommendation for the reform.

In some districts, the term house commonly is referred to as the " ouse ," for example, while " even " might be said " h ' even.

In 1964 the British sociologist Ruth Glass coined the term " gentrification " to denote the influx of middle-class people to cities and neighbourhoods, displacing the lower-class worker residents ; the example was London, and its working-class districts such as Islington:

* The mines of gold and silver ( for example those of the Pangaeus ), which were the exclusive possession of the king, and which permitted him to strike currency, as already said his sole privilege till Philip V, who conceded to cities and districts the right of coinage for the lesser denominations, like bronze.

For example, when Sir Francis Burdett, chairman of the London Hampden Club, proposed a resolution in favour of universal suffrage, equally sized electoral districts, and voting by secret ballot to the House of Commons, his motion found only one other supporter ( Lord Cochrane ) in the entire House.

Nevertheless, the United States government takes the place of the Speaker in the line of succession seriously enough that, for example, since shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Speakers have used military jets to fly back and forth to their districts and for other travel.

In January 1960, for example, army troops deployed to Bugisu and Bukedi districts in the east to quell political violence.

It is unfortunate, perhaps, that we have no means of knowing the particular theologies of the closely connected Set and Nephthys temples in these districts — it would be interesting to learn, for example, the religious tone of temples of Nephthys located in such proximity to those of Seth, especially given the seemingly contrary Osirian loyalties of Seth's consort-goddess.

For example, in 1988 two-thirds of Bangladesh's 64 districts experienced extensive flood damage in the wake of unusually heavy rains that flooded the river systems.

Because some of the new boroughs or districts covered areas much wider than the previous city, this had the effect that city status was awarded to a number of local government districts which were not themselves towns and included a number of towns and villages outside the urban areas from which the districts took their names, for example the cities of Bradford, Leeds and Winchester.

For example, household surveys conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics begin by dividing metropolitan regions into ' collection districts ', and selecting some of these collection districts ( first stage ).

The 15 districts stretched from Newfoundland to British Columbia, and produced some unexpected results, for example, an NDP candidate winning in Newfoundland for the first time.

Conversely, there may be one local government administering more than one district, for example, Seberang Perai Municipal Council administers the districts of Central Seberang Perai, North Seberang Perai, and South Seberang Perai.

While cities and districts are generally considered to be two different types of territorial authority, the area covered by a city is often known as its district — for example the term district plan is used equally in districts and cities.

It flows into the Swan River south of Perth and has a number of districts named similarly ( after the river, rather than Canning himself ) on its banks, for example Cannington and Canning Vale.

For example, some districts prefer to use peak acceleration, others use peak velocity, and more sophisticated uses require response spectral ordinates.

For example, Bertrand Delanoë, the mayor of Paris, has proposed to impose a complete ban on motor vehicles in the city's inner districts, with exemptions only for residents, businesses, and the disabled.

A recent prominent example of quorum-busting occurred during the 2003 Texas redistricting, in which the majority Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives sought to carry out a controversial mid-decade congressional redistricting bill which would have favored Republicans by displacing five Democratic U. S. Representatives from Texas ( the Texas Five ) from their districts.

Thus, the term " synod " as used by the ELCA refers to middle level administrative districts in different regions of the United States ( example: Illinois Synod of the ELCA ), whereas in the case of LCMS, WELS, and ELS, " synod " refers to the entire church body.

In the city you can find whole districts dedicated to tourism, for example Granada, one of the most traditional districts in Cali, full of gourmet restaurants, fashion stores and boutiques.

The results of these inquiries were used to adjust compilations of data from the registers and to provide various ratios and rates by districts, including birth and death rates, general fertility rates, distributions by marital status, fertility of wives separately in polygynous and non-polygynous households, infant mortality, and migration.

The populations of the various districts, or other major divisions, were stratified by type of community ( rural, urban, mixed ) and, where appropriate, by ethnic affiliation and by type of economy.

There were three major administrative tasks: the fixing of electoral districts, the registration of voters and the registration of candidates.

His advisers were men like the famous jurist Ulpian, the historian Cassius Dio and a select board of sixteen senators ; a municipal council of fourteen assisted the urban prefect in administering the affairs of the fourteen districts of Rome.

Five military districts and commanders were delineated to oversee the region.

The districts were settled in the following chronological order:

Some districts, named the Freie Ämter ( free bailiwicks ) – Mellingen, Muri, Villmergen, and Bremgarten ), with the countship of Baden – were governed as " subject lands " by all or some of the Confederates.

The northern part, the so-called Unteren Freie Ämter ( lower Freie Ämter ), which included the districts of Boswil ( in part ) and Hermetschwil and the Niederamt, were ruled by Zurich, Bern and Glarus.

The province consisted of the districts of Ajmer and Merwara, which were physically separated from the rest of British India by the many princely states of Rajputana.

New administrative districts ( vilayets ) were set up in 1864 and a Council of State was established in 1868.

In March 1880, a report reached India that Abdur Rahman was in northern Afghanistan ; and the governor-general, Lord Lytton, opened communications with him to the effect that the British government were prepared to withdraw their troops, and to recognize Abdur Rahman as Amir of Afghanistan, with the exception of Kandahar and some districts adjacent to it.

The moor gave its name ( Foweymore ) to one of the medieval districts called stannaries which administered tin mining: the boundaries of these were never defined precisely.

The new bridges and roads made what were formerly estates and marshland into prime industrial and residential districts.

The Public works districts were created, as well as the Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Colombia ( National Railways of Colombia ).

" There were two military districts, Western and Eastern.

The Cairo Governorate was just north of the Helwan Governorate from 2008 when some Cairo's southern districts, including Maadi and New Cairo, were split off and annexed into the new governorate, to 2011 when the Helwan Governorate was reincorporated into the Cairo Governorate.

Contracts were more restrictive in districts with high concentrations of poor and minority students.

Fierce fighting took place primarily in the East of Austria, especially in the streets of some outer Vienna districts, where large fortress-like municipal workers ' buildings were situated, and in the northern, industrial areas of the province of Styria, where Nazi agents had great interest in a bloodbath between security forces and workers ' militias.

Beyond this were the districts of the eta ( outcasts ), who performed " unclean " work and were separated from the main parts of the city.

Previously located within the city proper ( near Asakusa ), the districts were rebuilt in this more-remote location after the Meireki Fire of 1657.

In general, cinemas were set up in the established entertainment districts of the cities.