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- verb Present participle of
disincorporate .
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Examples
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De La Torre said he supports the idea of disincorporating Vernon or merging it with other cities to create a large city that would be subject to greater scrutiny.
latimes.com - News 2010
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De La Torre said he supports the idea of disincorporating Vernon or merging it with other cities to create a large city that would be subject to greater scrutiny.
latimes.com - News 2010
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In Mesa, Wash., a town of 500 residents about 250 miles east of Portland, Ore., city leaders have initiated talks with county officials about the potential regional impact of disincorporating.
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Vallejo says disincorporating would end public-safety-employee contracts, which city leaders blame for pushing the city into bankruptcy.
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Rio Vista says disincorporating would eliminate 38 jobs and shift its sewer services to the county.
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We're talking about massive layoffs of public servants, neighborhoods with more drunk drivers and sex predators at large, the shuttering of countless civic institutions, drastically higher insurance rates due to the loss of police and fire protection, cities disincorporating...the list goes on and on.
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I do like the concept that we ARE a part of society and the society in disincorporating us is losing part of itself - much as you "cure" everyone into similarity and you lose your Van Gogh's and the like.
I ponder why of all who profit from my existence, I do not Elizabeth McClung 2007
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De Leon argues that the reform pact is far superior to disincorporating Vernon, in part because it brings tangible benefits to the residents who live around the largely industrial city.
News - latimes.com By Sam Allen 2011
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In a statement he said he was "deeply disappointed" at the bill's failure, adding that his goal was to "end the toxic corruption that has poisoned the southeast communities by disincorporating Vernon."
News - latimes.com 2011
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The trouble is that disincorporating a city is far harder than incorporating one.
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