How to Use trusteeship in a Sentence

trusteeship

noun
  • In practice, however, a trusteeship is likely to fail, and no one is volunteering for the job.
    — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 30 July 2024
  • His lawsuit said the Teamsters needed to end its trusteeship and hold elections for new officers.
    — Mike Schneider, Star Tribune, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The artifacts were then passed into the trusteeship of the British Museum.
    — New York Times, 8 July 2022
  • The sole trusteeship structure makes this accountability gap uniquely acute.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 22 June 2026
  • During these decades, broadcasters were held to a standard of public trusteeship, in which the right to use the airwaves came with a mandate to provide for democratic discourse.
    — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2020
  • As a mentor, I’ve been given a trusteeship of my students’ moral character, along with their intellectual ability.
    — Caroline Kitchener, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2017
  • Gary Brown said in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Orlando last week that the Teamsters needs to end its trusteeship and hold elections for new officers.
    — Mike Schneider, Star Tribune, 9 Feb. 2021
  • But public trusteeship for broadcast and diverse ownership began to unravel with the libertarian shift of the Reagan era.
    — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The degrees of separation between Kanders’s trusteeship at the Whitney and what’s happening at the border are numerous and intricate enough to make my head hurt.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 25 June 2019
  • The airline added that the union changed its negotiating team four times in the past year and was placed into an emergency trusteeship by the national Teamsters union, impacting the negotiating process.
    — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2024
  • The judge ordered the trusteeship ended but didn’t find King guilty of a criminal charge — putting the building in receivership and ordering the landlord to fix the 23 code violations within the next month.
    — Erik Wallenberg, Chicago Tribune, 19 Jan. 2025
  • As international frustrations and worries grow, some momentum is growing for a proposal for outside powers to take over South Sudan and run it as a trusteeship until things calm down.
    — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2017
  • Captain Burnett, who died in 1922, willed the bulk of his estate to his granddaughter in a trusteeship for his yet-unborn great-grandchild, who would become Anne Marion.
    — New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Meanwhile, viable alternatives to the two-state solution could be considered, including plans for federations, condominiums, and trusteeships.
    — Michael Oren, Foreign Affairs, 31 May 2023
  • Transition officials say Kushner is resigning from all of his other partnerships, trusteeships and divesting from 35 investments.
    — Simon Dumenco, ELLE Decor, 10 Jan. 2017
  • Gandhi argued that companies should act as trusteeships, valuing social responsibility alongside profits, a view recently echoed by the Business Roundtable.
    — Sudev Sheth, Quartz India, 1 Oct. 2019
  • The German government has taken control of Rosneft’s local subsidiaries, placing them under trusteeship as Germany prepares for a looming ban on Russian oil imports.
    — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Today depictions of African weakness, Western trusteeship and Chinese ruthlessness are continuations of these stereotypes.
    — Yan Hairong, Quartz Africa, 4 June 2020
  • The government has now placed two Rosneft subsidiaries under the trusteeship of Germany’s energy regulator, meaning that three critical refineries are now controlled by Germany.
    — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The trusteeship should be administered by a small group of regional states, including Saudi Arabia and Jordan, which would assume primary responsibility for the trusteeship.
    — Lloyd Axworthy, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2024
  • Rosneft accounts for about 12% of Germany’s oil refining capacity, importing oil worth several hundred million euros every month, according to the government, which said the trusteeship was initially due to last for six months.
    — Time, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The Masterton Trophy is awarded each season under the trusteeship of the PHWA to the player who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey.
    — Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The Masterton Trophy is awarded each season under the trusteeship of the PHWA to the player who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication to hockey.
    — Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026

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