How to Use nonpartisan in a Sentence

nonpartisan

adjective
  • It's a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to preserving our national parks.
  • Licht was asked to turn around the tarnished network and return it to its nonpartisan roots.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 25 July 2023
  • Ahead of the election, nonpartisan analysts called the race a toss-up.
    WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • There are no term limits for the mayor or council members on the nonpartisan board at this time.
    Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2023
  • The seven justices on the Supreme Court are elected in statewide, nonpartisan elections.
    Michael R. Wickline, arkansasonline.com, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Although the mayoral race is nonpartisan, most of the candidates are Democrats.
    Juan Lozano, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2023
  • The nonpartisan mayoral election is held in two stages.
    David Faris, The Week, 22 Feb. 2023
  • When Moisio first suggested the idea of a nonpartisan election a year ago, Florian and Rivera favored the idea.
    Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The action is the result of a campaign by a nonpartisan, nonprofit group.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2022
  • School board races are nonpartisan, and being a school board member is unpaid.
    Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Over the next decade, the cumulative budget deficits will be 7% smaller than the nonpartisan CBO forecast last year.
    Fatima Hussein, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The state of nature — which is inexorable and nonpartisan—now presents a common path forward.
    Steven Phillips, STAT, 31 Jan. 2023
  • His mother created the nonpartisan iCivics as a way to teach kids about self-government.
    Tim Dillon, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Wilkes is now a fellow at the Institute for Government, a nonpartisan think tank.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The city’s filing period closed on Monday, and so far three candidates have thrown their hats into the ring for the nonpartisan office.
    Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The group was joined in the complaint by the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan government watchdog group.
    Patrick Svitek, Washington Post, 22 June 2024
  • This group of nonpartisan academics are on a mission: to outsmart poverty.
    Terrence Keeley, National Review, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Nemes sponsored a 2024 bill that will make Louisville Metro Council and mayoral elections nonpartisan.
    Rebecca Grapevine, The Courier-Journal, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Bain subsequently won a nonpartisan election in 2022 to stay on the county bench.
    Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 2024
  • The top two vote-getters in the all-Democrat but officially nonpartisan race moved to the Tuesday runoff because no candidate received over 50% of the vote.
    Sara Burnett, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
  • After a change in 2018, the system now presents the nonpartisan option last, after showing registrants a list of parties.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
  • In the memo, Davis said despite the criticism, the company continues to maintain a nonpartisan approach to news.
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The top two finishers will advance to the general election when the state holds its nonpartisan primary next year.
    David Sivak, Washington Examiner, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Moving the elections to the same ticket would increase partisanship in the city’s nonpartisan races, Henry said.
    Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 10 May 2023
  • But Russian experts broadly say that Moscow is sticking to its nonpartisan stance, and beyond that does not want to get involved.
    Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2023
  • To conservatives, the plan’s nonpartisan structure was a cover for allowing the left-leaning bar to pack the bench with centrist or left-wing justices.
    Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Texas was the largest member state, and its exit could imperil the nonpartisan voter fraud protection group.
    Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 20 July 2023
  • This was a nonpartisan contest to fill the council seat that Erickson Gault vacated last year to take the empty seat on the county commission.
    Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The nonpartisan board typically meets publicly the first Thursday of each month to establish policy and set rates and taxes.
    The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Straight-ticket voters who want to make selections on the nonpartisan section of the ballot, which includes the Michigan Supreme Court and other judicial races, would have to make those choices separately.
    Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 24 Oct. 2024

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