How to Use nongovernment in a Sentence

nongovernment

adjective
  • The company’s responses are the first major test of how a nongovernment watchdog might act as a check on the powerful social network.
    Washington Post, 6 May 2021
  • Under the new regime, even nongovernment-backed foreign investors involved in such technology deals would have to file.
    Kate O’Keeffe, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2018
  • And the $242 rate was probably less than what Trump's District of Columbia hotel might have gotten from a nongovernment customer in Washington.
    Anchorage Daily News, 1 May 2020
  • The bill would allow for garnishment of nongovernment wages or to pull from retirement accounts, if necessary, to pay for settlements.
    Natalie Andrews, WSJ, 24 May 2018
  • And many children from more privileged families who attend nongovernment schools receive English tuition from day care through high school.
    Reuters, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2018
  • Today, 35 states participate, though not all of those states allow access for nongovernment usage.
    Emily Glazer, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2018
  • Both SpaceX and Virgin Galactic are preparing to fly nongovernment customers.
    Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 12 June 2021
  • Now, nongovernment analysts who are tracking the regulations say the first installment, which is expected soon, will focus on just a handful.
    Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2019
  • Regulating commercial spaceflight first got Congress’ attention in 2004, after a competition called the Ansari X Prize to be the first nongovernment entity to send a crew to space.
    Washington Post, 23 June 2021
  • The company’s responses are the first major test of how a nongovernment watchdog might act as a check on the powerful social network, which is used by 3.45 billion people globally on a monthly basis.
    Elizabeth Dwoskin, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2021
  • Some nongovernment organizations and brands want BCI to swiftly and forcefully rebut the Chinese attacks, the people said, while others are pushing for a slower and more cautious approach.
    Suzanne Kapner, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The project, running since 2015 after nine years of surveys and tests, was founded by the Moroccan nongovernment organization Dar Si Hmad, which works to promote and preserve local culture, history, and heritage.
    The Christian Science Monitor, 17 May 2018
  • That helped propel total nongovernment debt to the equivalent of 257 percent of annual economic output by the end of last year, according to the Bank for International Settlements.
    Joe McDonald, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Records show Perrotta received clearance in March 2013 for limited nongovernment consulting work but was required to get updated approval if his job duties changed.
    Michael Biesecker and Jeff Horwitz, chicagotribune.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Hundreds of nongovernment groups involved in health, education and development have emerged.
    Matthew Pennington, The Seattle Times, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Looking only at nongovernment jobs, Trump’s actually doing better than Obama did in 2016.
    Philip Bump, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The murder of the director of a nongovernment organization that pushes land claim titles for Karachi's poor exposed the dark underbelly of real estate development in one of the world's fastest-growing megacities.
    Bloomberg.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Instead, their nongovernment organization partners in the United States engineered a harrowing escape for Roya and some of her friends and family to neighboring Pakistan.
    New York Times, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Religious groups and nongovernment organizations critical of Fidesz have seen funding dry up.
    Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
  • But nongovernment organizations including Greenpeace and Wild Poland Foundation say the vast majority of trees felled so far were unaffected by the beetles.
    Agnieszka Barteczko and Gabriela Baczynska, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2017
  • Pardon Congolese who suspect this is a fake excuse for disrupting nongovernment communications ahead of the release of preliminary results on Jan. 6.
    The Editorial Page, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2019
  • But nongovernment groups claim a much higher death toll, including many suspects killed by motorcycle-riding gunmen human rights groups suspect were financed by police officers.
    Jim Gomez, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2019
  • The Geneva summit, organized by 25 nongovernment human rights organizations and held online for the first time because of the pandemic, featured testimonies on issues that participants say do not get enough attention from the U.N. group.
    Julia Barajas, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2021
  • Student and tuition fees made up nearly half the university’s revenue, followed by federal grants and contracts, nongovernment grants and contracts, and auxiliary enterprises.
    Alison Steinbach, azcentral, 13 June 2019
  • Here, the local arm of the Catholic charity Caritas, working with other nongovernment organizations, has helped with mapping and protecting the borders of the territory and with providing technical support for fish farming and agroforestry.
    Andrew J. Wight, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Meanwhile, community and nongovernment organizations lobbied to soften both drug laws and social attitudes that painted drug users as criminals and outcasts.
    Lily Hyde, Slate Magazine, 22 May 2017
  • Under a separate piece of legislation, signed in 1946, all regulations from federal agencies need to go through a public notice period so nongovernment entities can offer feedback.
    Seung Lee, Newsweek, 29 Feb. 2016
  • There are checks on an autocrat’s power to build unnecessarily gigantic structures, including popular access to information from a free press or other nongovernment sources.
    Patrick Clark, Bloomberg.com, 3 May 2017
  • Lenita Dunlap, an activist and community leader who has worked with nongovernment organizations in Dallas, said the crisis of people who become homeless will be unrelenting once the federal eviction moratorium ends Oct. 3.
    Imelda García, Dallas News, 26 Aug. 2021
  • But no matter—before the press conference, Trump tweeted out an accusation that the intelligence community had leaked a dossier of information put together by nongovernment private investigators, accusing the agencies of behaving like Nazis.
    Kurt Eichenwald, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2017

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