A borough of northeast-central Pennsylvania on the Susquehanna River opposite Wilkes-Barre. It is mainly residential. Population, 15,681. 金斯顿宾夕法尼亚州中部一城市,位于偏东北萨斯奎汉纳河边,与威尔克斯-巴黑相望。它主要是居民区。人口15,681
A borough of northeast New Jersey north-northeast of Paterson. It is primarily residential with varied light industries. Population, 17,084. 霍索恩美国新泽西州东北部一自治村镇,位于帕特森东北偏北。主要为住宅区,有多种轻工业。人口17,084
borough
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one of the administrative divisions of a large city
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an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament
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Borough \Bor"ough\, n. [See {Borrow}.] (O. Eng. Law) (a) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other. (b) The pledge or surety thus given. --Blackstone. Tomlins.
Borough \Bor"ough\, n. [OE. burgh, burw, boru, port, town, burrow, AS. burh, burg; akin to Icel., Sw., & Dan. borg, OS. & D. burg, OHG. puruc, purc, MHG. burc, G. burg, Goth. ba['u]rgs; and from the root of AS. beorgan to hide, save, defend, G. bergen; or perh. from that of AS. beorg hill, mountain. [root]95. See {Bury}, v. t., and cf. {Burrow}, {Burg}, {Bury}, n., {Burgess}, {Iceberg}, {Borrow}, {Harbor}, {Hauberk}.] 1. In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. --Burrill. Erskine.
2. The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.
{Close borough}, or {Pocket borough}, a borough having the right of sending a member to Parliament, whose nomination is in the hands of a single person.
{Rotten borough}, a name given to any borough which, at the time of the passage of the Reform Bill of 1832, contained but few voters, yet retained the privilege of sending a member to Parliament.
In the church meeting, Mr. Probert asks the president of the project's tenants' association, a slim nervous woman, to ask the borough council to kick out the drug dealers.
After his second escape he spent eight years hiding from the law. At least part of that time he lived in New York's Bronx borough, where he was arrested on separate assault charges in 1974.
Lebron was the seventh person killed by New York police in the first month of 1990; six of the shootings have occurred in the borough of Brooklyn.
He represents Westminster, a borough with so many clamping complaints that it created a "Phone-a-Moan" hot line this summer.
The North Slope borough is the Eskimo-led government of the vast northern region of Alaska.
Superior Court Judge John C. Bachman issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday, forbidding the borough from acting against Immaculate Conception Church or the sign.
Santa Daumann, a 59-year-old grandmother from the New York City borough of Brooklyn, won more than $1 million Friday playing slot machines at Harrah's Marina Hotel Casino.
Council flats were sold and homeless families ejected from marginal wards to keep the borough Conservative. More bad weeks are likely to follow.
Some trees also were downed in the New York City borough of Queens.
Witcher, 61, said he met Iranian officials for the first time at St. John's Episcopal Hospital in the New York City borough of Queens _ part of his diocese _ where several Iranian Kurds gassed in the war were treated.
"All of those embellishments are really irrelevant, says Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, a spokesman for the orthodox Lubavitch movement, also in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
When he was a councilman more than a decade ago, for example, he recalls that the borough received $180 in revenue sharing money, but had to spend $144 on a required newspaper advertisement to describe publicly how the money would be spent.
Initially arriving for transient work, they have brought families, built five mosques in a square-mile area of Tower Hamlets borough and opened leather shops and grocery stores filled with chutneys and mangoes.
The borough of Kensington is fighting back by looking through illegally dumped trash for something that might identify the culprit.
The shooting, the first to claim the lives of two city police officers in more than 11 years, occurred on the Grand Central Parkway in the borough of Queens, near LaGuardia Airport.
I did what I did because I could." "The police were attacked and quite rightly so," said Andy Murphy, a 28-year-old anarchist who works for the London borough of Hackney.
Mr Barry Keel, borough economic development director, said inward investors selected sites by deleting the least favoured from their list.
His represents a district in Queens, the New York City borough where Byrne was killed.
The borough is ranked third in the country on fraud detection, saving more than Pounds 2m last year. Until recently, there was little incentive for councils to tackle fraud - most of the cost of housing benefit is paid for by the government.
With the guilty plea of Eugene Brower, former mayor of the North Slope Borough, the investigation now centers on a number of prominent borough contractors and consultants during Mr. Brower's three-year tenure, said U.S. Attorney Michael Spaan.
Coffee is $2 a cup, but it is not the prices that have residents of this northeastern Pennsylvania borough up in arms over Dad's Coffee Shop.
Staten Island is by far the city's smallest borough.
Republican City Councilwoman Susan Molinari won the seat given up by her father, Guy Molinari, who has become Staten Island borough president.
House prices are among the highest in the UK, more than half being valued at Pounds 120,000 or more, making it prohibitively expensive to accommodate homeless people in the borough.
If this November's proposal passes, a commission will have three years to recommend whether secession is the best thing for the borough.
Doublefigure swings would dislodge them from Barnet, Bexley and Bromley. The nature of the contest will vary from borough to borough.
Doublefigure swings would dislodge them from Barnet, Bexley and Bromley. The nature of the contest will vary from borough to borough.
Reports of bias incidents have decreased in the borough of Queens in 1988, compared to 1987, but are on the rise citywide, Collins said.
One of the major reasons for the current scandal is that recommendations of the last full inquiry into malpractice in the borough, in 1987, were not implemented.' Friday night's debate on Mr Ouseley's report was acrimonious.
The mortgage bank is headquartered in the New York City borough of Queens.