How to Use nonvoting in a Sentence

nonvoting

adjective
  • Both were on the force’s four-person board, with the chief a nonvoting member.
    Alexa Corse, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2021
  • O’Rourke’s campaign mantra is that Texas is not a red state, but a nonvoting state.
    Andrew Rice, Daily Intelligencer, 10 July 2018
  • That leaves the other 98% to the Holdfast Collective, who holds all of the nonvoting stock.
    Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The secretary of state would become a nonvoting member of the board and no longer chair it.
    Quinn Scanlan, ABC News, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Leaders of the system responded this week by granting him a nonvoting voice in the search.
    Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
  • But the old man, who goes by Jerry, remains firmly in charge even at 89, thanks to his voting shares and role as trustee for trusts that hold the siblings’ nonvoting stock.
    Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Jan. 2021
  • Part of the package may include nonvoting preferred stock.
    Gillian Tanbloomberg, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2019
  • There’s to be one nonvoting member each from the private sector and the faith community.
    John Hudson, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
  • To help keep students central to the efforts, Coleman proposed adding a nonvoting student member to the board.
    Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 3 June 2020
  • Of the 10 House Republicans who co-sponsored the bill last year, three have since left Congress and one is a nonvoting delegate.
    Grace Segers, The New Republic, 27 July 2023
  • The owners retain almost all voting right through Class B shares, as opposed to publicly-traded, nonvoting Class A shares.
    Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Whenever Nathan—a nonvoting member of the board of directors and a huge pain to the company’s PR department—puts his foot in his mouth, the corporation gags.
    John Anderson, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Nikias remains a faculty member and a nonvoting trustee.
    Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Under any rule tweak, though, research has shown, the nonvoting public and the voting public don’t differ much except in affluence.
    WSJ, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The decision to leave the 47-nation body was more definitive than the lesser option of staying on as a nonvoting observer.
    Carol Morello, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2018
  • An eighth member, who will be a nonvoting member, will be selected at a future council meeting.
    Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2023
  • In exchange for the cash Bombardier, will receive additional, but nonvoting shares, in the partnership.
    Paul Vieira, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2017
  • The school board has seven members with an additional nonvoting seat for a student member.
    Jess Nocera, Howard County Times, 27 June 2018
  • Katona has been serving as the nonvoting caretaker of the 10th District since Ridley-Thomas was suspended from his post.
    David Zahniserstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The board, composed of the House and Senate sergeants-at-arms and the architect of the Capitol, along with the police chief as a nonvoting ex officio member, took no position on the recommendations.
    Arkansas Online, 26 Feb. 2022
  • Martinez picked Karly Katona, Ridley-Thomas’ then-chief of staff, to serve as a nonvoting caretaker.
    David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2022
  • As expected, four companies bought about 40 percent of the available nonvoting shares.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2022
  • At one point during the meeting, some of the parents in the audience began shouting at Andrea S. Pita Mendez, a 17-year-old high school senior who sits on the board as a nonvoting student adviser.
    Tim Craig, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
  • While Wesson is sidelined, chief of staff Heather Hutt is serving as the district’s temporary nonvoting caretaker.
    David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2022
  • In addition, there will be three regular nonvoting experts along with expert witnesses who will serve on a case-by-case basis.
    Kala Kachmar, The Courier-Journal, 30 Dec. 2022
  • German car maker Daimler AG , which owns nonvoting shares equal to 4.9% of the ordinary equity, will maintain its holding.
    William Boston, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
  • Sunday best: Householder will not relax the chamber’s dress code -- even on weekends or during nonvoting sessions.
    Laura Hancock, cleveland.com, 8 July 2019
  • And because the vast majority of voters live in states or districts safe for one party or the other, nonvoting is not entirely irrational.
    Lee Drutman, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
  • John Ames, Dallas County’s tax assessor-collector, who is a nonvoting member of the board, was not available for comment Tuesday.
    Dallas News, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Guyana President Irfaan Ali said that the transitional council would have seven voting members and two nonvoting ones.
    Dánica Coto and Evens Sanon, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2024

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