Meaning: n. the district occupied entirely by the city of Washington; chosen by George Washington as the site of the nation's capital and created out of land ceded by Maryland and Virginia.
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31 Even before China Pacific went public in Hong Kong, Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein showcased the fund's success in the insurer at its annual global limited partner meeting in Washington D.C.
32 That's what the study said.The study found that Washington D.C. residents were the top abusers of alcohol, cocaine, and marijuana.
33 He wanted to photograph more political leaders, so in eighteen forty-nine he moved to Washington, D.C.
34 These new worlds imply that there's a "dramatic and exciting process of gravitational billiards" at work, agrees astrophysicist Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C.
35 In 1996, he came to the U.S. and gained an academic appointment at the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C. where he remained until 2001.
36 In 1954 he founded the first Church of Scientology in Washington, D.C. By 1978 the organization claimed 38 U.S. churches, with 41 more abroad, and 172 "missions" and 5, 437, 000 members worldwide.
37 Marc Sasseville, an officer in the D.C. Air National Guard, was one of the first pilots launched over Washington, D.C., after the 9/11 attacks.
38 I tried them out over the course of a week and used them in real-life situations including at a birthday party and at the Army 10-Miler, an annual run in Washington[sentencedict.com], D.C.
39 The owner of a goat rescue organization in Washington D.C. is encouraging people to send recycled Christmas trees because the animals find them rather delicious, AP reported.
40 The Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy is based in Washington, D.C. It is an organization of about one hundred eighty groups, government agencies and businesses.
41 In 1982, in Washington, D.C., Shechtman first observed crystals with 10 points — pentagonal symmetry, which most scientists said was impossible.
42 St. Elizabeths Hospital, first proposed by Dorothea Dix and built before the Civil War, opened a 292-bed facility on the hospital grounds overlooking the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C.
43 The C.D.C. reports that 37 states now have widespread influenza activity, highly unusual this early in the season.
44 Mongol-American communities of recent immigrants are settled in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and New Jersey.
45 BOB DOUGHTY: In eighteen sixty-two, during the American Civil War, Louisa May Alcott went to Washington, D.C. She served as a nurse in a military hospital.
46 Satel was formerly a staff psychiatrist at the Oasis Clinic in Washington, D.C., where she worked with substance abuse patients.
47 I heard this one from Tara Brach, psychologist and Buddhist meditation teacher in Washington D.C.
48 When I started 25 years ago at a little studio in Washington, D.C., I never thought it would ever last this long or come to this.
49 Marian Anderson was to sing in Washington, D.C. at Constitution Hall. This concert hall was owned by an organization called the Daughters of the American Revolution, or D.A.R.
50 At a protest off Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, it was unclear what the protesters stood for, much less if they'd accept political support from the Democratic Party.
51 While the paper's circulation is just 33, 000, those copies go to a golden distribution list that includes the White House, every key Capitol Hill office, and prominent D.C. businesses.
52 My largest contributor was my friend Anne Bartley, Governor Winthrop Rockefellers stepdaughter, who later ran the Arkansas office in Washington, D.C., when I was governor.
53 An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances.
54 Washington formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790.
55 I had a friend come to stay who had been living in Washington D.C.
56 A person who was at the meeting says Wyatt wore suspenders, smoked a cigar, and propped up his cowboy boots on his desk—a cartoonish vision of a D.C. power broker.
57 Smokers get periodontal disease at two to three times the rate of nonsmokers, " says Sally Cram, DDS, a periodontist in Washington, D.C., and a consumer advisor for the American Dental Association.
58 WASHINGTON, D.C.—When Winifred Frick sits down at her computer to look at radar maps, it's not to track a local thunderstorm. It's to follow bats.
59 "What's striking is how fast the extinction was," says paleontologist Douglas Erwin of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., a co-author on the paper.
60 Luba Vangelova works for TechnoServe in Washington, D.C. She tells us the group has an estimated budget this year of about 45 million dollars.