Federal District
a district in which the national government of a country is located, especially one in Latin America.
- Portuguese and Spanish Distrito Federal.
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Of the 42 Federal District nominees currently pending, eight are African American.
Congressional Black Caucus Blasts Obama for Not Nominating Enough African-American Judges | Patricia Murphy | January 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMilke's legal team filed an appeal in Federal District court in Phoenix.
He won his case in the Federal District Court in Virginia in 2011.
Appearing in Federal District court for her guilty plea, Greig seemed fragile and traumatized.
Whitey Bulger’s Women: Inside the Terror and Glamour of His Ex-Girlfriends | T.J. English | June 11, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIn this light it is astounding that Federal District court judges find anyone wholly innocent, as has happened so often.
Federal Courts Reject Virtually All Habeas Petitions from Gitmo: Study | Clive Stafford-Smith | May 13, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
It consists of fourteen provinces, ten territories, and one Federal District.
The question of size of the Federal District had been settled by the Constitution—it was to be ten miles square.
A Portrait of Old George Town | Grace Dunlop EckerThe extent of this Federal District is sufficiently circumscribed to satisfy every jealousy of an opposite nature.
The Federalist Papers | Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James MadisonLa Plata was founded in 1882, two years after Buenos Aires had been constituted a Federal District and made the national capital.
Twenty-two states voted, including the Federal District of Mexico, and two territories.
Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 | Brantz Mayer
British Dictionary definitions for federal district
an area used as the seat of central government in a federal system
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