How to Use executive session in a Sentence

executive session

noun
  • Arguing was loud enough to be heard through the walls of the board room as trustees mulled the decision in executive session.
    Krista Torralva, ExpressNews.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • That wasn’t the only contentious portion of the executive session.
    oregonlive.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • However, there is is no record showing the board told Smout in an executive session or private meeting to award the payouts.
    Craig Harris, azcentral, 17 July 2019
  • The Ethics Board is set to discuss the matter again in executive session on Thursday.
    Andrea Gallo, ProPublica, 16 May 2019
  • The senate briefly went into executive session, removing the audience from the room.
    Josh Verges, Twin Cities, 5 Aug. 2019
  • About an hour after deliberations began, a panel member said the group had finished its work in executive session.
    Becky Bohrer, The Seattle Times, 17 July 2018
  • The council then convened a closed-door executive session to continue private discussions of the Quarles theft case.
    Miles Moffeit elvia Limón, Dallas News, 17 July 2019
  • The executive session Wednesday involved the board’s plans to fill the position of general manager.
    David Anderson, baltimoresun.com, 12 June 2019
  • Council members recently reviewed in executive session a draft of the audit and, on Tuesday, voted to accept its results.
    cleveland.com, 14 June 2019
  • Applications are due by 4 p.m. June 7, the board announced Tuesday night after an executive session.
    Emma Kate Fittes, Indianapolis Star, 5 June 2019
  • The motion came after the board met in an executive session that was closed to the public for just over an hour.
    Cynthia Howell, Arkansas Online, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The council met for executive sessions on April 12 and April 17.
    oregonlive, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Some of those past meetings were in executive session, closed off from the public.
    Megan Stringer, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The motion and vote came after the board had met in a closed, executive session for about two hours and 20 minutes Tuesday night.
    Cynthia Howell, Arkansas Online, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The city council will hold an executive session on the proposal in the next couple of weeks and return for a vote next month.
    Paul Best, Fox News, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The vote came after the board met in executive session for nearly two hours on Monday.
    Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 10 Jan. 2023
  • When the board meets on Wednesday, much of its discussion will take place in a closed-door executive session.
    James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Others in the executive session had mused about ways to try to keep the settlement secret.
    oregonlive, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Fortune, meanwhile, told The News that plans are in the works to brief the council Wednesday during executive session.
    Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2021
  • The 5-1 vote came late Monday night after the board discussed it in executive session.
    Danya Perez, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Under the rules, the committee will convene with the doors open to the public and media and then will vote to go into a closed executive session.
    Wsj Staff, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The agenda did not mention the ransomware attack, but Taguinod said the board would discuss it in a closed executive session at the end of the meeting.
    Brandon Lingle, San Antonio Express-News, 24 June 2021
  • The Board of Elections took up the audit, which is now available online, at an executive session on June 28.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2022
  • Why would a government body want to meet in closed or executive session?
    Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2021
  • That discussion is planned for executive session, which is not open to the public.
    Lily Altavena, azcentral, 25 Nov. 2019
  • This time, bishops took their debates over the issue behind closed doors in an executive session the evening before the vote.
    BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Most of the June 12 meeting, when the licenses were awarded, was held in executive session.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 3 July 2023
  • When the council voted to go into executive session to discuss Hamercheck’s and Cahill’s lawsuit, Hamercheck and Cahill tried to go with them.
    Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The board went into executive session to discuss the candidates, then returned to vote in an open meeting a little over an hour later.
    Al Gaspeny, arkansasonline.com, 20 Apr. 2024
  • The 7-0 vote was taken after an executive session during the board meeting Wednesday night.
    Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 May 2024

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