How to Use redistrict in a Sentence

redistrict

verb

• The town was redistricted last year.
• No one wants to have to redistrict, and the perfect time to have done so was when schools were closing.
  — Pat Stoetzer, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 16 Oct. 2020
• For a state to redistrict its congressional seats again in the middle of the decade was almost unheard of.
  — Richard Pildes, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2018
• The decision in this case will likely set the path for redistricting in 2020 and beyond.
  — Washington Post, 19 June 2017
• Our children were redistricted to what was considered the worst high school in the county.
  — baltimoresun.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• No high school students were redistricted at that time.
  — Jess Nocera, baltimoresun.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• The school board will ultimately decide how or whether to redistrict, as required by state law.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2021
• Months of work Betker said that redistricting the city to accommodate nine aldermen could take months of work.
  — Darryl Enriquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2018
• More populous states must redistrict their U.S. House seats.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2021
• The solution is to take redistricting out of the hands of politicians and use a computer program to create the districts, with the minimum length of the district boundaries being the goal.
  — WSJ, 5 Apr. 2018
• When this happens, most states redistrict not only for Congress but for their own legislative offices as well.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
• In that scenario, Towson-area students would be redistricted to other schools.
  — Libby Solomon, baltimoresun.com, 13 July 2018
• Just wait: Kentucky Republicans will redistrict Yarmuth’s base in Louisville into pizza slices, attaching a tiny piece of blue to many more red seats.
  — Steve Mulroy, The New Republic, 8 July 2019
• In a later House committee, bills to redistrict that chamber and the Kentucky Supreme Court also advanced by nearly party-line votes.
  — Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal, 6 Jan. 2022
• Texas is so heavily Republican and redistricted that most races are won in the primaries.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
• School board members have said that politics and the timing of elections are not supposed to be considered when deciding how to redistrict.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Dec. 2021
• If the court will find a state’s redistricting efforts so infected with partisan bias that it must be thrown out, something the justices have never done before.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 3 May 2018
• Students would be redistricted, likely to nearby schools including Forrest Dale, which is a little more than a mile away.
  — Emma Kate Fittes, Indianapolis Star, 24 May 2018
• More lawsuits are likely, as Republicans say the court is not authorised to redistrict all by itself.
  — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
• Assemblyman John McKeon, who proposed the amendment, said the state won't get high-quality census data in time to redistrict.
  — Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 2 Sep. 2020
• The plan would also redistrict 142 students from their current schools to the remaining five elementary school buildings.
  — Peter Marteka, Courant Community, 7 July 2017
• The same day as the veto, 5,000 angry West Texans met in the town of Sweetwater and drafted resolutions calling for a breakup unless the legislature redistricted the state and built the college.
  — Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 2 Mar. 2017
• The same day as the veto, 5,000 angry West Texans met in the town of Sweetwater and drafted resolutions calling for a breakup unless the legislature redistricted the state and built the college.
  — Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 2 Mar. 2017
• As outlined in the Supreme Court ruling in the 1962 Baker v. Carr case, states have to redistrict every ten years in a way that keeps up with population shifts and keeps every district roughly equal in population.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2017
• Sumter County is embroiled in a court fight over voting rights and redistricting that challenges the composition and credibility of its school board.
  — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2019
• Pushing back the end date will allow lawmakers to come back to the Statehouse to redistrict both the congressional and Statehouse districts without having to be called back in for a special session, due to the delay of census data.
  — Kaitlin Lange, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Apr. 2021
• Most of the overcrowding in other schools is expected to be relieved this fall, when Southeastern Elementary opens on Cyntheanne Road and thousands of students are redistricted.
  — Emma Kate Fittes, Indianapolis Star, 19 June 2019
• Noblesville is not the only Hamilton County district to redistrict recently.
  — Mj Slaby, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Mar. 2021
• Here's how Indiana Republicans will use it to redistrict.
  — Rashika Jaipuriar, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Aug. 2021
• The House also wanted to turn the tables on the judiciary by subjecting judges in redistricting disputes to cross-examination.
  — Mary Ellen Klas, miamiherald, 28 Apr. 2017

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