How to Use administratively in a Sentence

administratively

adverb
  • The measure asks voters to require local governments to vote on all fee increases, which can now be approved administratively.
    Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
  • For small business owners, these are the areas of your business that likely require the most use of your time administratively.
    Adam Povlitz, Forbes, 7 July 2022
  • Pate continued to fight the matter administratively, but said the unpaid debt tanked her credit.
    Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Things can be handled administratively through the school.
    Juhi Varma, Houston Chronicle, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Last fall, after the city granted the request by requiring the six-figure payout and years-long wait, the newspaper appealed the fee issue administratively, but lost, leading to Free Press to take the issue to court.
    Joe Guillen, Detroit Free Press, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Instead, his office and legislators negotiated a deal to make some of the changes in the bill administratively instead of through state law.
    Taylor Romine, CNN, 18 Mar. 2021
  • In return, Rosario was sentenced to time served and agreed to be administratively separated from the Marine Corps, officials said.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Durazo has not yet decided whether to introduce the bill again next year or try to achieve its aims administratively, according to a spokesperson for the senator.
    Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek said Monday that these are the first airmen to be administratively discharged for reasons involving the vaccine.
    Lolita C. Baldor, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Dec. 2021
  • So cutting fossil-fuel subsidies or putting a price on EpiPens and insulin—trying to do some of those things administratively could be possible.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Colome said the woman, whose name was not released, was turned over to American Airlines officials to handle administratively.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 20 Jan. 2022
  • And then, finally, he’s moved to I.P.S. facilities to await his trial or to be detained administratively.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
  • On top of my nervousness about the physical and cultural challenges ahead, the fear of being outed and administratively discharged weighed heavily on me.
    Janessa Goldbeck, refinery29.com, 15 June 2020
  • The only exception to the standstill rule in Tokyo was for the portion held on some remote islands that are administratively part of the capital and have experienced fewer infections.
    Chieko Tsuneoka, WSJ, 21 July 2021
  • He was transferred to a family member and his immigration case was closed administratively in April 2012.
    Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2023
  • The UW System said the model would be administratively difficult to operate.
    Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The groups also urged Biden to administratively change rules in federal nutrition aid programs that require that the military housing allowances count as income.
    John M. Donnelly, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The services have begun to administratively discharge troops who have refused to get vaccinated.
    Nancy A. Youssef, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2022
  • The Biden administration’s vision is a diplomatic version of this, connecting Gaza administratively to the West Bank.
    Eugene Kontorovich and Itamar Marcus, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2023
  • The law has expired, and LaRose chose to extend the requirement administratively while specifying counties can only offer one secure box at their county board of elections office.
    Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The department tries to resolve cases administratively to avoid taking employers to court.
    Alexia FernÁndez Campbell and Joe Yerardi, Chron, 4 May 2021
  • Following the public comment period, the plan will be revised, and that version will go to the local governments to approve either administratively or through a legislative review process.
    Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • This is a product that, administratively at least, doesn’t fall neatly into any single category.
    Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 1 June 2023
  • The statewide ban on new fracking permits will be imposed administratively in 2024 by the state Department of Conservation, which regulates California’s oil and gas industry, giving the agency time to draft the new mandate.
    Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The document, said division director Brad Richter, is expected to be approved administratively within the next month.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2021
  • While the agency will live administratively within the National Institutes of Health, its physical location is yet to be determined.
    Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The plant continues to operate on a water pollution permit that expired in 2006, which has been administratively continued by the state Department of the Environment.
    Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 12 Sep. 2022
  • But right before his release this past May, officials at the Ministry of Justice applied those same restrictions administratively, without needing court approval.
    Selam Gebrekidan, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The motion suggests that anyone else facing similar tax problems would have had his case handled administratively instead of with criminal penalties.
    Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2024
  • For instance, another point of disagreement has been the disciplinary histories of officers whom the police department doesn’t recommend administratively charging.
    Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 22 Apr. 2024

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