Sentences with phrase «in a single district in»

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For a century and a half, epidemiology has been an effective strategy for tracing the root causes of infectious disease outbreaks — as John Snow demonstrated in 1854, when he painstakingly mapped cases of cholera in London and eventually traced them to a single contaminated well and water pump in the Soho district of the city.

Before single - handedly bootstrapping AppSumo five years ago from the basement of an apartment in San Francisco's trippy Haight - Ashbury district, the 33 - year - old entrepreneur was a self - described «cubicle monkey» at Intel, employee number 30 at Facebook (he was fired) and employee number four at Mint (he quit).

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At a hearing on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen asked if there was a «tension or inconsistency» for Uber to argue that every single one of its drivers is an independent contractor, yet to also argue that the legal issues in the case are so specific to each driver that it can't be decided as a class action.

For any single property, total school district taxes can not be more than $ 5 per $ 1,000 in market value and total general government taxes can not be more than $ 10 per $ 1,000 in market value.

Note: The single Republican running for the GOP nomination in the 3rd district is Arthur Jones, a Holocaust denier and self - described «white racialist.»

And when Scragg was competing in her district's barista championship, every single person from her store who wasn't working showed up to support her, carrying signs and flowers.

Varying Disruptions — Significant business disruptions can vary in their scope, such as only our firm, a single building or unit housing our firm, the business district where our firm is located, the city where we are located, or the whole region.

The state's «education tax» supports schools (as do local school district taxes in most other states) and is the largest single source of property taxes in Vermont.

Bezos has expanded his influence in the District as the owner of The Washington Post, and he's putting down roots with the purchase of a 27,000 - square - foot property in the posh Kalorama neighborhood that he intends to convert into a single - family home.

Varying Disruptions — Significant business disruptions can vary in their scope, such as only our firm, a single building housing our firm, the business district where our firm is located, the city where we are located, or the whole region.

In a new industrial district, for example, only a single church can be built for all, yet it has to be used by people of the most heterogeneous artistic taste, so that to one a crucifix may seem blasphemous which others find a most genuine expression of their religious feelings.

«I've visited dozens of dairy farmers in this district and the reason why I focused on the Margin Protection Program is to a single dairy farm it has not worked,» Stefanik said.

Hawaii is unique in that the entire state constitutes a single school district.

This pilot study took place in eleven elementary schools within a single Oregon school district.

They will have no memory of the «good old days,» when districts like mine could offer for lunch in a single week: breaded chicken sandwiches; cheeseburgers; chicken fried steak fingers with cream gravy; beef taco nachos; beef taco salad; pepperoni pizza; and «Frito Pie» — with the latter two entrees served with mashed potatoes.

Cosmas, the Buffalo Grove mother of two, was instrumental in getting her school district and park district together after an acquaintance, a single father, told her how much less he was paying for child care through a school - park program in a neighboring community.

My school district here in Houston is doing a lot of things right, but it's still selling garbage like this to our middle and high school kids every single day:

CARY — If Cary officials approve the Sterling Ridge subdivision plan for 150 condominiums and single - family homes, the Cary Park District is in line to receive more than $ 500,000 in park improvements.

Park District officials defended the process, saying they had sought bids on a similar youth golf proposal for a single location in 1998 but had received just one offer, which was too expensive to carry out.

Redevelopment at the Rosewood Park Beach has been the target of opposition for years, including a 2010 Park District proposal that would have combined elements in the current plan into a single structure.

While James Parks was chief in the mid-1990s, the force bulged to more than 80 officers even though the Park District owned just a single play lot, authorities said.

The district also was awarded «Best of Show» in the Single Brochure Cover category, winning for its summer program guide cover that depicted two laughing children in bathing suits.

Pleading guilty were the former chief, James Parks, under whose leadership the force bulged to more than 80 officers even though the Park District owned just a single tot lot, and Marshall Thompson, a former sergeant with the Maywood Park District Police Department, who acted as a «bagman» in the scheme.

STREAMWOOD — A proposed 125 - unit single - family home development is in jeopardy after Park District commissioners Thursday unanimously rejected an offer by the developer to donate cash instead of land for a park.

But Sandy said the park district has not received «a single dollar «in state or federal grants thus far, nor has it even applied for any.

It is harder to research a couple dozen candidates in a given election (which would be typical in a nine seat election since there would be viable third party candidates as well as a candidate for each seat from each of two major parties) than it is to research two of them as you would in a single member district with the two party system that single member districts strongly favor.

In contrast, single member districts systemically underrepresent diffuse, politically extreme ideological factions which are minorities almost everywhere which tends to moderate the political system as a whole (something that instant runoff voting also does).

Were I in McDonald's district, I would be extremely offended that the Gay Lobby was trying to take over my district and my seat with single - issue funders.

John Duane is an attorney who served in the state Assembly for a single two - year term in the 1980s, and, as he put it, «was beaten by President Ronald Reagan in 1984, who swept the Democratic district.»

The main changes that I've read about were that it would introduce instant - runoff style ranked choice voting and that it would put districting in the hands of an independent commission that would create much larger districts with multiple representatives versus single representative districts that currently exist.

Currently single candidate districts are mandated in federal election law.

The municipal party, if the district is within a single municipality in whole or in part.

For example, suppose that voters are evenly split between two political parties, but the nine equal population single member districts are drawn so that the favored party wins by just 5 percentage points in eight districts, while the disfavored party wins by 40 percentage points in another district, you've converted a 50 - 50 division of the population vote into 8 seats for the favored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error in its favor in the eight districts it wins and a 0.1 seat rounding error against it in the one district it loses), and 1 seat for the disfavored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error against it in the eight district it loses but only a 0.1 seat rounding error in its favor in the one district it wins).

If you get right down to the marrow of it, gerrymandering is essentially a sophisticated means of exploiting rounding errors in a crude historical method of determining a political party's support via single member districts.

It's all coming down to a likely recount in a single district, which, I believe, is in Astorino's home turf.

In a multiple representation district, the voting method is called Single Transferable Vote (STV) rather than Instant - Runoff Voting (IRV).

The new system is less proportional than the old system (which allocated half the seats through party lists and had smaller single member districts); thus Orban was able to retain his two - thirds majority despite winning 800,000 fewer votes than in 2010.

Half of the 450 seats will be decided by competitions in regional constituencies, technically known as single - mandate districts, using a «first - past - the - post» system like that used in U.S. elections.

«(N) ame - calling never created a single job in this district and doesn't help the middle class,» he explained.

According to Barron, his supporters collected names in every one of the state's 29 congressional districts and passed the 100 - name limit in 23 of those (the requirement is at least 100 in 15 districts, so candidates can't just stand on a single busy street corner in NYC and get onto the ballot).

The system with 225 local single - member districts elected by a first - past - the - post electoral system (highest vote wins) offers much room for manipulation, use of administrative resources and pressure, extortion, vote buying and putting only one candidate on the ballot in some districts.

The recipient of the largest single grant from City Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras» (D - East Elmhurst) discretionary funds is not located in her district, but the councilwoman said those funds will help those she represents.

The Commission had initially proposed placing nearly all of Woodhaven in a single City Council district.

Lavine's single, unified vision leading the school district and city could build off the successful Career and Technical Education model in Syracuse.

This race is expected to turn on the question of charter schools, and it remains unclear if there's enough passion in the district on that single issue to overcome the power of incumbency.

Much of the discussion centered on campaigns for the U.S. House and Senate, but state races came up constantly as well, and for good reason: the state legislators and governors elected in three short months will oversee the single most important political act in our system of government, the redrawing of state and congressional district lines based on the results of the census.

it can happen in other single member plurality district systems.

But the state party has no control over districts that are wholly contained in a single county — only in those that cross county lines.

«My single goal is to give people who live in the district a meaningful voice in the decisions that affect their lives.»