How to Use intergovernmental in a Sentence

intergovernmental

adjective
  • The city and Naperville Township will enter into an intergovernmental agreement to fund the rest of the project.
    Erin Hegarty, Naperville Sun, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The intergovernmental agreement for the sale could be approved at the next full City Council meeting.
    Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 23 Feb. 2018
  • The intergovernmental treaty established a framework for the use and conservation of wetlands.
    Denise Coffey, courant.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The district would convey both the Todd and Lincoln school buildings to the city as part of the intergovernmental agreement.
    Linda Girardi, chicagotribune.com, 24 Dec. 2020
  • For over a decade, an intergovernmental group at the UN has grappled with how the council might take in more countries.
    The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • The intergovernmental effort that has been in the works since 2002 is expected to come to fruition this summer.
    Susan Demar Lafferty, Daily Southtown, 16 May 2018
  • At 144 years old, the UPU is one of the oldest intergovernmental agencies.
    Jen Kirby, Vox, 19 Oct. 2018
  • The new intergovernmental body in Prague has little in the way of formal structure.
    Roger Cohen, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Oswego, Yorkville and Montgomery will share the costs of the project through an intergovernmental agreement.
    Linda Girardi, chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The council, in June, authorized the sale of the stadium to the school system, and backed an intergovernmental agreement to do so.
    John Sharp | Jsharp@al.com, al, 6 July 2023
  • His new intergovernmental affairs director and a deputy chief of staff plan to be at the Gold Dome often throughout the session.
    Wilborn Nobles, ajc, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The intergovernmental project hosted in South Africa and Australia, as well as other parts of Africa, is billed as the most advanced radio telescope network in the world.
    Conrad Onyango, Quartz, 1 Feb. 2022
  • One of those items, which is an intergovernmental agreement with Pace Bus, will go into effect May 1.
    James T. Norman, chicagotribune.com, 10 Feb. 2022
  • When the euro teetered, the Eurogroup was a useful intergovernmental forum for the two sides: those who had money (such as the German government) and those who needed it (such as the Greek one).
    The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • The agreement has worked for the last 20 years and was lauded by the state three years ago as a model of intergovernmental cooperation, Meyers said.
    Michelle Mullins, chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Others said an intergovernmental U.N. body in which all countries are equal members is the best option.
    Nana Ama Sarfo, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Jones said the bureau plans to keep its sworn officers on the transit division through the end of December, when the intergovernmental agreement with TriMet ends.
    oregonlive, 19 June 2020
  • Last time, Lucio chaired an intergovernmental affairs panel that the Senate did away with this year.
    Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Village of West Dundee trustees will vote on the intergovernmental agreement at its next board meeting after the school board approves it this week, Wieteska said.
    Rafael Guerrero, Elgin Courier-News, 10 July 2018
  • Africa's islands and coastal cities are at risk of more extreme weather in the coming years, according to the U.N.'s intergovernmental panel on climate change.
    Wanjohi Kabukuru, ajc, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The city has since named Kate Davis as director of the mayor’s office of tourism and entertainment and Heather Gasper as head of intergovernmental relations.
    BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2019
  • For other areas, the city was already authorized to install pipelines as part of an intergovernmental agreement signed when the village was still a town in 2018.
    Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2021
  • It was replaced by the U.N., which has also failed to prevent global conflict but is now the largest intergovernmental organization in the world.
    Rachel Kaufman, Smithsonian, 30 Apr. 2018
  • But at the very end of the session, Tiffany Raspberry, the mayor’s director of intergovernmental affairs, entered the Council chamber and sat down at the dais to testify.
    Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 29 May 2024
  • Nash said intergovernmental partnerships that formed during the pandemic need to stay in place to really address health disparity in the Delta and across the state.
    Stephen Simpson, Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2021
  • This is the first time that Beijing has presided over a major intergovernmental meeting on the environment.
    Vanessa Hull, The Conversation, 29 Nov. 2022
  • And in our intergovernmental climate report, the Africa chapter has for the first time included heritage in its assessment.
    Joanne Clarke, Quartz Africa, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The claims were first brought to the intergovernmental organization in 2017.
    Aj Willingham, CNN, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Stockbridge and Henry County will try to hammer out an intergovernmental agreement as the project’s next step, including what is permissible to build next to the center.
    Leon Stafford, ajc, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The venue for resolving these types of intergovernmental disputes might well be the courts, but as meticulously as courts might interpret the law, as decisive as their rulings might be, there are certain things that the courts cannot do.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2024

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