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
  • 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
  • Today, 35 states participate, though not all of those states allow access for nongovernment usage.
    — Emily Glazer, WSJ, 12 Nov. 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
  • The first nongovernment small satellites were built by amateur radio operators who wanted to extend their hobby into space.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Nov. 2018
  • Hundreds of nongovernment groups involved in health, education and development have emerged.
    — Matthew Pennington, The Seattle Times, 2 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • Religious groups and nongovernment organizations critical of Fidesz have seen funding dry up.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
  • When nongovernment scientists or others are invited as speakers, government scientists should be available to speak, ask questions and respond.
    — Jesse L. Goodman, STAT, 18 May 2026
  • This has played out similarly in Syria with fact-finding to protect nongovernment organizations.
    — John Shattuck, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Both SpaceX and Virgin Galactic are preparing to fly nongovernment customers.
    — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 12 June 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • While the government shutdown has postponed official reports on the health of the jobs market, economist Mark Zandi believes nongovernment data shows that the labor market continues to be on weak footing.
    — Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The environmental committee includes representatives from several of the region's nongovernment environmental groups and from city, town and county governments.
    — Tim Zorn, Post-Tribune, 4 May 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Katie Fiorillo — a volunteer from Pennsylvania — had settled into her life working with a Ugandan nongovernment organization for almost two years, forming a farmers’ cooperative and helping residents with things like irrigation.
    — NBC News, 27 Mar. 2020
  • As an independent, nongovernment business roundtable of senior corporate executives and university leaders in Louisiana, C100 is said by proponents as a business sector voice on state issues impacting business and economic development.
    — NOLA.com, 25 Nov. 2020

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