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Stanislaus

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[stan-is-laws, -lous] / ˈstæn ɪsˌlɔs, -ˌlaʊs /

noun

  1. a male given name.


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The passage of Proposition 50 has made the district safer for Democrats as the new congressional map shifts parts of Stockton, Modesto and northern Stanislaus County into the district, while removing more conservative, rural territory west of Fresno.

From Los Angeles Times

This new species is named for Martina Giselle Ramirez, dean of the College of Science at California State University, Stanislaus and formerly dean of natural sciences and biology professor at St. Norbert College.

From Science Daily

In one village, "more than 2,000 soliders were deployed, more than the number of locals", said Frederikus Stanislaus Awi of the Papua Merauke Legal Aid Institute.

From Barron's

The Justice Department has demanded a “current electronic copy of California’s computerized statewide voter registration list”; lists of “all duplicate registration records in Imperial, Los Angeles, Napa, Nevada, San Bernardino, Siskiyou, and Stanislaus counties”; a “list of all duplicate registrants who were removed from the statewide voter registration list” and the dates of their removals.

From Los Angeles Times

Earlier this week, nearly two dozen fires erupted following a lightning storm in Calaveras, Stanislaus and Tuolumne counties.

From Los Angeles Times