How to Use disaffiliate in a Sentence

disaffiliate

verb

• Hoag has made the choice to disaffiliate from Providence.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2021
• This is the final year for churches to disaffiliate under a special process created in 2019.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 10 July 2023
• Some will be part of new church start-ups in communities where churches have disaffiliated.
  — Greg Garrison | , al, 29 June 2023
• In 2021, the Board of Trustees adopted a process and, along with District Superintendents, walked alongside the churches that requested to disaffiliate.
  — Jon Brown, Fox News, 5 June 2022
• The plan includes starting churches in Orange Beach and Prattville, where churches disaffiliated.
  — Greg Garrison | , al, 12 June 2023
• Stien sent an email Sunday night announcing the decision to disaffiliate, falling back on those Christian values.
  — Michael McCleary, The Indianapolis Star, 9 June 2020
• The 70 churches that chose to disaffiliate represent 9% of the congregations in the Conference and 3% of the membership, according to the denomination.
  — Jon Brown, Fox News, 5 June 2022
• Delegates will meet Friday to vote on approving those requests to disaffiliate.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2023
• To run as an independent, a candidate would have had to disaffiliate from any political party at least 30 days before this year’s primary.
  — Chris Brennan, Philly.com, 29 June 2017
• But in 2019, according to the court record, Kashdan was barred from teaching or hiring new graduate students for two years and disaffiliated from GMU’s clinical psychology program for at least five years.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
• The community deserves a full picture of why Hoag wants to disaffiliate from Providence and how Providence continues to interfere in its services.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2021
• Orange Beach United Methodist Church also voted to disaffiliate.
  — Greg Garrison | , al, 28 Apr. 2023
• Congregations still have until the end of 2023 to vote to disaffiliate under terms approved by the United Methodist General Conference that allows congregations to vote to leave and negotiate to take their property with them.
  — al, 31 Dec. 2022
• Thirty-five congregations were allowed to disaffiliate in November, while three others were blocked.
  — Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 14 May 2023
• Since last year, conservative United Methodist churches have been disaffiliating in large numbers.
  — Greg Garrison | , al, 7 May 2023
• Churches must also pay two years of apportionments to the UMC as well as any unfunded pension liabilities in order to disaffiliate under Paragraph 2553.
  — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 7 Mar. 2023
• Counting the new start-up congregations in some of the places where other churches have disaffiliated, the North Alabama Conference currently has 290 congregations.
  — Greg Garrison | , al, 12 Sep. 2023
• Given the prominence of religious institutions in Black culture, disaffiliating from religion can leave a void in terms of community.
  — Kathryn Post, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2024
• Conference guidelines require two-thirds of a congregation must approve to disaffiliate, pay a pro rata share of the conference’s pension liability and possibly pay to purchase its property.
  — Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2022
• Most disaffiliating churches are joining the Global Methodist Church, but some have joined other denominations or remained independent.
  — Greg Garrison | , al, 23 June 2023
• The state Election Code requires independent candidates to disaffiliate from any political party at least 30 days before the primary election to be eligible for the general election.
  — Chris Brennan, Philly.com, 12 July 2017
• One of the driving factors behind the progressive vs. conservative narrative is the fact that the majority of churches choosing to disaffiliate have smaller congregations and are generally located in more rural areas.
  — Tribune Content Agency, al, 22 July 2023
• Some remaining church members have chosen to disaffiliate with the denomination under guidelines for separation adopted by the United Methodist General Conference in 2019.
  — al, 8 June 2021
• How many churches in Wisconsin have voted to disaffiliate, or leave? Forty-three congregations in Wisconsin voted to disaffiliate, including five in southeast Wisconsin.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2023
• To go co-ed, sororities and fraternities must disaffiliate from the National Greek Organization, thereby losing their funding, national benefits, and international network.
  — Marisa Salatino, Town & Country, 31 Aug. 2016
• This measure effectively blocked congregations from disaffiliating for decades.
  — Caleb Wiegandt, The Courier-Journal, 5 June 2023
• Congregations also disaffiliate by vote in individual episcopal area conferences.
  — Caleb Wiegandt, The Courier-Journal, 7 June 2023

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024