How to Use local government in a Sentence

local government

noun
  • The changes have taken a toll on the morale of state and local government workers.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 July 2022
  • María Ramos Pacheco is a reporter on the local government team.
    — María Ramos Pacheco, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
  • The church is the property of the archdiocese, said David O’Brien, a spokesman for the local government.
    — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
  • The local government does have concrete plans, though, to draw tourists.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The zoo is run by the local government, which was said to be running out of money and therefore unable to feed its charges.
    — Laura He, CNN, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Late last month, scores of workers were filmed fleeing the plant as fear about the virus grew among them, and the local government sent teams to the site to manage the crisis.
    — Yang Jie, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Still, courts and local governments are starting to fight back.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Many state and local governments have climate plans of their own.
    — Jeff Brady, NPR, 1 Feb. 2025
  • The local government agreed in June to settle the lawsuit for $12.5 million.
    — Margaret Stafford and John Hanna, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
  • But, for the local government, hard times remain ahead.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 30 May 2022
  • That will help lead the way for local governments to follow suit and help reduce the need for so many transmission lines.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The clock face was stored in the city hall's basement when the local government relocated to Bagby Street.
    — Robin Soslow, Chron, 11 Feb. 2023
  • State offices and courts will be closed; many state and local government employees will have the day off.
    — Ruth Serven Smith | [email protected], al, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Yet an easement application for the trail project that the local government filed to the state in 2018 has barely moved.
    — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2022
  • The only thing dropping is state and local government debt by 3%.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 9 June 2022
  • The last time it was shot down, lawmakers said that the local governments were not contributing enough funding to the project.
    — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 25 Oct. 2024
  • What is your vision of the role of local government in Anchorage?
    — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
  • But the byzantine structure of local government in Illinois has largely stayed the same since then.
    — Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Not since the Great Recession have state and local government workers seen their wages grow this fast.
    — Kyle Stokes, Axios, 30 July 2024
  • While the local government is striving to house people, the problem is more than the system can handle.
    — Nicholas Slayton, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Here and now, their parents face pending price increases in the costs of state and local government.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 10 May 2022
  • Rotterdam’s local government asked him to document the loan and agree that it be paid back.
    — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The same goes for local governments in San Diego that often focus on housing costs.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2023
  • And, President Trump intends to scale back monies for state and local governments while pushing more costs on states and cities.
    — Eric J. Gertler, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2025
  • The group plans to go back to court to force the local government to return the land to its original state or some approximation.
    — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The local government had by then set up its own facility to house children trafficked to the mines.
    — Kevin Monahan, NBC news, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The lockdown will last until Nov. 9, the local government said in a statement posted to its WeChat account.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Beijing has begun to step away from the effort, leaving local governments to pick up the subsidy slack.
    — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The local government has not yet announced a plan to replace the network of care that AMC in downtown provided.
    — Donovan J. Thomas, ajc, 21 Oct. 2022
  • This has included vast cuts to research funding as well as funding for state and local governments.
    — Simon F. Haeder, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2025

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