district boundary

collocation in English

meaningsofdistrictandboundary

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district
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdɪs.trɪkt/us
/ˈdɪs.trɪkt/
an area of a country or town that has fixed borders that are used for official purposes, or that has a particular feature that makes it different from ...
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boundary
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbaʊn.dər.i/us
/ˈbaʊn.dər.i/
a real or imagined line that marks the edge or limit ...
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(Definition ofdistrictandboundaryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdistrict boundary

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Two of the greatest hindrances to this type of research were the unavailability of historical congressionaldistrictboundarymaps and historical congressional election maps.
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Although prejudice cannot be eliminated by the drawing of district boundaries, its political impact can be neutralized.
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While many services may be best provided within adistrictboundary, others might, as now, be best provided outside.
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The district health authority has decided to develop mental illness services within thedistrictboundary.
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As a pack of hounds is constantly under control, it might be possible to confine it within a parish ordistrictboundary.
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For one thing, it will save me having adistrictboundaryliterally running across my front door.
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It would ignore the considerable number of bus services which cross at least onedistrictboundary.
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If it were a change in adistrictboundary, the district council would be the right body to consult.
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It is even possible for a drainagedistrictboundaryto sever someone's garage from his house so that he pays drainage rates on the garage but not on the house.
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Parity of numbers could have been achieved by crossing only onedistrictboundaryinstead of crossing two district boundaries, as the commission has done in its revised proposals.
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Think of the tremendous difficulty of getting an agreement whereby a fire brigade or an ambulance shall go across a countydistrictboundaryfrom one urban district into the next.
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First, the two distances—three miles for thedistrictboundary, one mile for the offence of fishing for salmon without permission—are set out for quite different purposes.
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There are no signs or other indicators of thedistrictboundaryalong the local and county roads that serve it.
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Thedistrictboundaryhas been changed many times.
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The schooldistrictboundarysize is about 9mi km by convert4.
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The district is governed by a five member commission elected at-large to staggered four year terms by the voters within thedistrictboundary.
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Imperial is the census-designated place located within thedistrictboundary.
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Thedistrictboundaryfollows a combination of lot lines and streets.
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I have argued that these guidelines also made it difficult to gerrymander district boundaries.
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The cognizable expressive harms of racial districting come into play only when race is the predominant factor in drawing district boundaries.
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