How to Use executive session in a Sentence

executive session

noun
  • Bowden-Lewis waived her right at the first meeting, which consisted of an hours long reading of charges against her, held in an executive session.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2024
  • The motion came after the board met in an executive session that was closed to the public for just over an hour.
    Cynthia Howell, Arkansas Online, 19 Nov. 2021
  • After an executive session, many on the council spoke about the case and the city’s image.
    Andy Warren, Houston Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Arguing was loud enough to be heard through the walls of the board room as trustees mulled the decision in executive session.
    Krista Torralva, ExpressNews.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The council met for executive sessions on April 12 and April 17.
    oregonlive, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The Ethics Board is set to discuss the matter again in executive session on Thursday.
    Andrea Gallo, ProPublica, 16 May 2019
  • Some of those past meetings were in executive session, closed off from the public.
    Megan Stringer, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The motion and vote came after the board had met in a closed, executive session for about two hours and 20 minutes Tuesday night.
    Cynthia Howell, Arkansas Online, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The city council will hold an executive session on the proposal in the next couple of weeks and return for a vote next month.
    Paul Best, Fox News, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The vote came after the board met in executive session for nearly two hours on Monday.
    Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 10 Jan. 2023
  • When the board meets on Wednesday, much of its discussion will take place in a closed-door executive session.
    James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The board could discuss Crosland in executive session, then come out of that meeting to take action.
    Katy Moeller, idahostatesman, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Others in the executive session had mused about ways to try to keep the settlement secret.
    oregonlive, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Hunt then joined the Village Board in a closed-door executive session that was scheduled first on the meeting agenda.
    Rick Kambic, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The school board met in private, executive session for two hours on Thursday.
    Hannah Sparling, Cincinnati.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • They don’t get paid for executive sessions, which can sometimes last for hours.
    Bill Banks, ajc, 4 May 2018
  • Fortune, meanwhile, told The News that plans are in the works to brief the council Wednesday during executive session.
    Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2021
  • The 5-1 vote came late Monday night after the board discussed it in executive session.
    Danya Perez, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Under the rules, the committee will convene with the doors open to the public and media and then will vote to go into a closed executive session.
    Wsj Staff, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The agenda did not mention the ransomware attack, but Taguinod said the board would discuss it in a closed executive session at the end of the meeting.
    Brandon Lingle, San Antonio Express-News, 24 June 2021
  • The Board of Elections took up the audit, which is now available online, at an executive session on June 28.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2022
  • Why would a government body want to meet in closed or executive session?
    Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2021
  • That discussion is planned for executive session, which is not open to the public.
    Lily Altavena, azcentral, 25 Nov. 2019
  • This time, bishops took their debates over the issue behind closed doors in an executive session the evening before the vote.
    BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Most of the June 12 meeting, when the licenses were awarded, was held in executive session.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 3 July 2023
  • When the council voted to go into executive session to discuss Hamercheck’s and Cahill’s lawsuit, Hamercheck and Cahill tried to go with them.
    Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Most of that meeting consisted of an executive session that ran for more than an hour.
    al, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The group will meet in closed executive session, according to the public agenda posted to the town’s website.
    Christopher Huffaker, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
  • The City Council is meeting again in executive session this week.
    Josh Baugh, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Jan. 2018
  • After tabling the item until after discussion in executive session on June 4, commissioners voted 4-0 in favor of the bond package.
    Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 June 2024

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