How to Use nonfederal in a Sentence

nonfederal

adjective
  • Some cranes have already been shipped to nonfederal facilities.
    — Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Unshaded areas would be the only nonfederal land available for new oil and gas development.
    — Dan Frosch, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2018
  • To plug the gaps, faculty have been frantically applying for nonfederal sources of money.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Some Democrats have estimated that 83% of the funds raised by the state party are for nonfederal state and local candidates.
    — Rick Pearson, chicagotribune.com, 15 July 2021
  • If federal funds are available, FDOT may fund up to 80% of the nonfederal share.
    — Jim Turner, Sun Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2026
  • If federal funds are available, FDOT may fund up to 80% of the nonfederal share.
    — Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • In the past decade, 69 nonfederal officers have been charged, while 21 have been convicted of some crime, according to the data.
    — NBC News, 30 June 2018
  • For nonfederal landowners, actions that could result in unintentional kills could be allowed but will require permits.
    — John Flesher, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Often, regulators permitted more than one service to occupy a single band, and many federal users shared bands with nonfederal ones.
    — Ariel Bleicher, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2013
  • Illinois and Michigan committed to providing the nonfederal share of just over $10 million.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2021
  • But baiting—which is still legal under state wildlife regulations on nonfederal land—remains a popular practice with Alaskan hunters, Richards said.
    — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 10 July 2024
  • Illinois and Michigan committed to providing the nonfederal share of about $10 million with the rest coming from federal funds.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 19 Jan. 2022
  • In the report, agricultural land is defined as nonfederal cropland, pastureland, rangeland and woodland used to support agriculture.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 May 2018
  • Private student loans are nonfederal education loans made by banks and other financial institutions such as credit unions and online lenders such as SoFi.
    — WSJ, 21 July 2017
  • In northwest Indiana, at least $191 million in federal and nonfederal funds have been spent to date for cleanup of the Grand Calumet over the past 15 years.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
  • As of 2021, nearly 80 percent of physicians and almost all nonfederal acute-care hospitals deployed an electronic health record system.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Mar. 2025
  • The difference is biggest in El Paso, Texas, where federal employees earn on average double what nonfederal employees earn.
    — Maureen Linke, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2019
  • Now, the White House is seeking language to clarify that the city has the authority to spend fiscal 2026 funds received from local tax revenues and other nonfederal sources.
    — Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 9 Sep. 2025
  • According to the executive order, the committee will be funded by the IMLS and will include no more than 25 nonfederal members.
    — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2022
  • For example, the investments partnership program requires jurisdictions to match every dollar received with 25 cents of nonfederal funding.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Ronaldson said the county secured an $18 million grant from the Illinois Commerce Commission, which will cover the agency’s share of the nonfederal match as well as other construction costs.
    — Samantha Moilanen, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Penn is one of several hundred institutions that uses the CSS profile, an online application that lets students apply for nonfederal financial aid.
    — Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 1 May 2024
  • Municipal bonds—the debt issued by states, cities, and nonfederal public authorities—occupy an important niche in the financial lives of Wall Street and America’s wealthy.
    — Daniel Gross, Slate Magazine, 8 June 2017
  • Fortunately, nonfederal public health innovators are creating more modern systems.
    — Deborah L. Birx, STAT, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The figures, which exceed estimates published by nonfederal researchers, include 9 million hectares of pinyon-juniper woodlands (pictured here in Utah)—a forest type that was previously rarely categorized as old growth.
    — Byscience News Staff, science.org, 4 May 2023
  • CalFire, meanwhile, tasked with responding to every fire on 31 million acres of nonfederal land inside state borders, has, compared to the Forest Service, almost no fuel-management authority.
    — Daniel Duane, Wired, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Candidates seeking to lead the Democratic National Committee have called for a more intensive focus on nonfederal elections, and several senior Democrats said distraught party donors were turning their attention to the states.
    — Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2017
  • Investigators identified only 12 nonfederal initiatives nationwide that provide education, screening or treatment for brain injuries in this population.
    — New York Times, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Seven states across the country, including Illinois, don’t have laws as robust but do provide some regulatory protections for nonfederal waters, according to the Environmental Law Institute.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 9 Dec. 2024
  • City and state law enforcement have signed what are known as 287(g) agreements with ICE, which allow nonfederal police to be deputized to work with ICE and carry out federal immigration enforcement.
    — Anna Giaritelli, The Washington Examiner, 17 Sep. 2025

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